Robert Earl sold his shares to Farhad Moshiri and stepped down from his position.
Not long after, Robert Elstone and Sasha Ryazantsev joined the board of directors. The club talked about Steve Walsh sitting at the top table too, but that never materialised before he was sacked.
That July, following Moshiri's arrival, Denise Barrett-Baxendale was elevated to a position on the board, which now stood at five-strong.
A few months later, Keith Harris, who had played his part in Iranian billionaire coming to Goodison, pulled out a seat in the boardroom and sat down as the club's new deputy chairman.
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The boardroom now had six members: Bill Kenwright, Jon Woods, Elstone, Ryazantsev, Barrett-Baxendale and, latterly, Harris.
But by May 2018, Elstone was gone, Barrett-Baxendale was promoted to chief executive and then Marcel Brands, six months into his role as Walsh's replacement as director of football, was given a place in the boardroom.
Woods and Harris were out of the door by the summer of 2019, following a "strategic review" and the board now had four members.
All the while, Moshiri was steadily increasing his shareholding in the club but has never sat on the board.
Nor, as it stands, will he.
His eyes and ears, Ryazantsev, left his position at the end of August last year, but not before being joined in the boardroom by Sarvar Ismailov and Grant Ingles, on the same day, the month earlier.
But by the start of November, Ismailov, out of the blue, was gone. Leaving the club owing to "personal and health" reasons, the club said.
Ingles remains on the board. Brands quit the club in December but, this week, the board was added to with Graeme Sharp's appointment.
In, out, in and out, Everton's boardroom has been shaken all about in the last six years.
Eight appointments, six departures. And more change to come?
The ECHO understands that, prior to Sharp's elevation to the boardroom, at least two additions were being lined up, but maybe more.
Moshiri no longer has, what the club have called, an owner's representative on the board, so expect that any further bolster of the ranks will include, at least one, of the majority shareholder's picks.
And what about a fan? Before Christmas, details of the proposals put forward by the Everton Stakeholder Steering Group (ESSG) were released which, in essence, are calling for a Fan Director to be installed by the start of next season.
The club are "committed" to the creation of a fan advisory board but discussions about a supporter sitting in the boardroom, and having equal voting rights as other directors, would have to be discussed.
Dialogue is on-going. It's a solid start about greater supporter say in how the club is run.
And, without question, the latest boardroom reshuffle, part planned and part unexpected, leaves the Blues facing the most important revamp in some time.
The latest strategic review, albeit one focused on football operations, will (among other things) provide an answer to the question: Will Everton appoint a new director of football? If the answer is yes, then does that person sit on the board as Brands did? If not then one of the next boardroom appointments has to hold his or her expertise in the nuts and bolts of the game. Club legend Sharp cannot be the only 'football voice', if you like, in the boardroom.
And then, given the board last lost Ryazantsev and, then, Ismailov, a dedicated director with commercial experience and acumen, is also a must, right? Especially with a new stadium on the horizon.
Will either of those roles be filled by the person who would also act as Moshiri's representative? Who knows? But the point being that Everton, by design or circumstance, have the chance to build a boardroom that covers all areas of the business. Football, finance, commercial and, quite possibly, fans too.
It will have felt like a game of musical chairs in the Goodison boardroom in recent years, but now is the time to make the changes that will help the club progress on and off the pitch.
