In her 22 month stint as Yahoo CEO, numerous high-level executives have left Bartz behind, sometimes for greener pastures.

Say what you like about Carol Bartz's one-and-a-half-year tenure at Yahoo -- good, bad, or just ho-hum -- but there's no denying that high-level executives keep leaving as the CEO streamlines the troubled tech company and attempts to transform it into a viable competitor against the likes of Google and Facebook.

Last week, Bartz confirmed in an internal memo to employees the latest wave of departures, including U.S. head Hilary Schneider. "Yes, they're leaving, but each for different reasons that suit their life," she wrote. While more than 15 top-ranking execs have left over the past year and a half, we tallied the most significant. More