Nearly 86 percent of promotions to CEO in 2015 went to company insiders rather than outside candidates, the highest rate in three years, according to the Conference Board. Meanwhile, about 25 percent of the CEOs who left their jobs between 2009 and 2014 were 64 or older, which some experts believe suggests a generational shift among CEOs, The Washington Post reports.
But not every C-level demographic is shifting. Of the 56 S&P 500 companies that hired a new CEO in 2015, only one named a woman chief executive — Andrea Greenberg, who became CEO of MSG Networks after it broke from Madison Square Garden. Out of the 359 CEOs appointed worldwide las year, just 10 were women.
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