GameStop has fired CEO Matt Furlong, the corporate introduced as a part of its first quarter 2023 income on Wednesday. There’s no speedy substitute, even though board chairman Ryan Cohen has been appointed government chairman, the corporate mentioned in a short press release about Furlong’s firing.
Furlong joined GameStop after 8 years at Amazon; prior to he left Amazon, he was once the chief of the corporate’s Australia trade. As famous at Furlong’s hiring by Reuters, Cohen additionally introduced in Amazon professionals to the jobs of leader monetary officer, leader operations officer, leader generation officer, and leader enlargement officer. None of the ones professionals are on the corporate any more. Former CFO Michael Recupero was once fired in July, former COO Jenna Owens left after just seven months in the role, former CTO Matt Francis left in April, and previous leader enlargement officer Elliott Wilke left in September.
GameStop has additionally made Mark Robinson the corporate’s new “important government officer” with a name of basic supervisor, according to a form 10-Q from the company. Robinson has been at GameStop for just about 8 years, in keeping with his LinkedIn, and he maximum just lately served as the corporate’s basic suggest.
GameStop canceled its income name nowadays.
Correction June seventh, 5:46PM ET: An previous model of this tale incorrectly referred to November layoffs; the ones layoffs if truth be told came about in July. We remorseful about the mistake.
