Why ADP CEO quit
By Techgirl

Automatic Data Processing, with about $10 billion in revenues and approximately 570,000 clients, is one of the world's largest providers of business outsourcing solutions.

Automatic Data Processing (ADP) has huge outsourcing setups in Hyderabad and Pune where it employs more than 3000 Indians techies, BPO and KPO staff.

On Nov 10, 2011, all ADP employees got an email about how their Board of Directors had promoted Carlos A. Rodriguez, the Company's Chief Operating Officer, to President and Chief Executive Officer and had elected him to the ADP Board of Directors. Mr. Rodriguez succeeds Gary C. Butler, 65, who has retired after 37 years at ADP.

While ADP projected this normal succession planning – Gary Butler retiring and Carlos taking over, Footnoted (which reports on SEC filings) has published the real reason behind the resignation

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On Wednesday, footnoted reported on the sudden departure of Automated Data Processing (ADP) Chief Executive Gary C. Butler, effective November 8. While the suddenness seemed a bit unusual to us, ADP cast this as part of a “succession plan previously established,” so we didn’t really question the timing. Today, we learned that he had been arrested on a criminal domestic-violence charge in the days before Butler stepped down.

We were told by the Sheriff’s office that Butler and his wife had argued earlier in the day, and then went out to dinner with friends. That night, after returning home, the argument resumed, according to the police report on file with the Sheriff’s office. “At some point Mr Butler grabbed [his wife] by the neck and by the wrist and pushed her against a bureau in the bedroom, and she fled the residence and called law enforcement,” Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Robin McIntosh told us, citing the police report. She said Butler’s wife didn’t need medical attention, but that officers found signs “of somebody having had their hands on her.”
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Techgoss note:  Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog techgirltalk.blogspot.com.  Techgirl has been ejected from Twitter for satirizing an Indian Minister.  Her satire blog has links to her Times of India interview detailing her being kicked out of Twitter, and then being invited back.