BREAKING: After eighteen years, the Green Bay Packers have announced plans to replace CEO Mark Murphy.

Amidst a week filled with Super Bowl announcements, the Green Bay Packers revealed their intention to replace outgoing CEO Mark Murphy, who had declared his retirement.

Following his 70th birthday in July 2025, Mark Murphy, who became the Green Bay Packers’ CEO in 2007, announced his retirement on the team’s website. The Packers’ organizational bylaws mandate a 70-year-old retirement age, according to a press statement from the team.

With the knowledge that Murphy would turn 70 soon, the Green Bay Packers were able to put together a comprehensive strategy to find a replacement for their CEO job, which would soon become vacant. The current vice president and lead director of the Packers’ executive committee, Susan Finco, is the chair of the new CEO search committee that the board of directors established. Dan Ariens, the executive committee secretary and chair of the personnel and compensation committee, is the vice-chair of the committee.

The Green Bay Packers are a team that has, from the front office to the key players on the field, maintained unparalleled stability over the years. They could almost be considered the NFL’s model of stability.

Working with Korn Ferry, who helped the organization choose Mark Murphy in 2007 when CEO succeeded Bob Harlan, is the newly-formed committee.

We have a long and great relationship with the Green Bay Packers, and we are happy to be working with the search committee to find their next leader of this special and storied franchise,” a representative for Korn Ferry stated. Our over 50 years of expertise working with the NFL and its teams is something we are proud of.

It is anticipated that the committee would need six to nine months to find the next CEO of the Green Bay Packers. The Board of Directors of the company will cast a vote to end it, and the incoming CEO of the Packers will then work with Mark Murphy until he retires to become familiar with the nuances of the position.

The Green Bay Packers are a publicly-owned non-profit organization, but every other NFL team has a private owner, which makes all of this noteworthy when contrasted to other organizational hires in the league. As opposed to a Jerry Jones against Dallas Cowboys scenario, the CEO of the Packers speaks for the team’s best interests and the interests of the public shareholders.