Green Bay (NBC26) — The Green Bay Packers have released the details of their search for the organization’s next leader, who will succeed Mark Murphy, the Packers’ President and CEO since 2007.
Murphy will formally retire in July 2025, when he would reach the necessary retirement age of 70 set by organizational bylaws.
Susan Finco, Packers executive committee vice president and lead director, serves as head of the Packers Board of Directors’ search committee. Dan Ariens, executive committee secretary and chairman of the personnel and compensation committee, serves as the search committee’s vice chair.
Mark’s contributions to the organization have been extraordinary,” Finco stated. “From upgrading the corporate leadership structure to growing and diversifying revenue to improving the Packers’ meaningful impact in the community, Mark continues to position the team for success. We look forward to his enlightened leadership over the next year and a half.
In addition to Finco and Ariens, the search committee is made up of a varied range of skills and industries represented on the board. It consists of Mike Simmer (treasurer, executive committee), DJ Long (executive committee, personnel and compensation committee), Marcia Anderson (executive committee), Karl Schmidt (executive committee), Michael Barber (Packers Foundation chair), Jeff Joerres (investment committee chair), Eddie Garcia (former player, board member at-large), Robyn Davis (board member at-large), and Mike Daniels (board member at-large).
The search committee is collaborating with Korn Ferry, a major search agency that the organization has previously worked with. The Korn Ferry team is led by Jed Hughes, who has decades of experience in the process and has previously worked with the Packers on top-level searches, including the one that identified Murphy as the recommended candidate to succeed Bob Harlan in 2007.
“We have a long and positive history with the Green Bay Packers and are pleased to be working with the search committee to identify their next leader of this unique and storied franchise,” Hughes said in a statement. “We take pride in having more than 50 years of experience working with the NFL and its teams.” Tierney Remick, Divina Gamble, and Garrick Yu are part of the Korn Ferry team, which also includes Hughes.
