According to a report last Friday from the Washington Post, Reed Cordish is leaving his position as a senior White House advisor on tech. After stepping down as Assistant to the President for Intragovernmental and Technology Initiatives, the 43-year-old former tech aide plans to return to work for his family's real estate company in Baltimore, the Cordish Companies.

Cordish was appointed to the position of Assistant to the President on January 16, 2017, and served as a member of the Office of American Innovation, which was launched in March by the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner. Cordish will be replaced by Brooke L. Rollins of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Rollins was a former aide to Energy Secretary Rick Perry.

Cordish's departure comes less than a week after the publication of a Brookings Institute study that examined the unusually high rate of turnover in the Trump administration, which has seen over a third of its staff members leave their positions for various reasons over the course of Trump's first year in office. The number of departures from the Trump White House in its first year is far greater than in any of the past five administrations - more than triple that of the Obama White House. Particularly striking is the number of high-profile figures in senior positions that have left Trump's staff.

The report from Brookings points to the negative consequences of such excessive turnover, highlighting the turbulence that often follows a resignation or a firing. Since report's publication, at least four more people have left positions within the administration.

In an interview with the Washington Post, Cordish said that he had not planned on working for the White House for more than a year. Following Cordish's departure, Kushner spoke highly of the former aide, calling him "invaluable to the administration."

Prior to his time at the White House, Reed Cordish had been a part of Donald Trump's transition team during the months between the election in November and Trump's January inauguration. Before joining the transition team, Cordish worked as a partner for his family's real estate development company and had had little experience in politics. Cordish and his wife are close personal friends with Ivanka Trump and her husband Kushner.

While Assistant to the President, Cordish served as an important liaison to private tech companies and worked to shape the Trump administration's approach to the world of tech and tech education. In September, Cordish announced that through his facilitation, major tech companies including Facebook (FB  ) and Google (GOOGL  ) had collectively committed to giving over $300 million toward computer science education.

In addition to his work on promoting computer science education and other workplace-centered initiatives, Cordish had also played a key role in developing the $1.5-trillion infrastructure plan outlined in the president's budget for the 2019 fiscal year.