ncbaker, fwiw this is from the Jun 2013
PR ... and my guess is that in that process they said screw it and fired SKS. I think the COO search morphed into a CEO replacement and that that effort has concluded. Perhaps they even offered Solms the COO job, and Solms basically said you've only got 150 people, how about CEO, and that they really needed to do some house cleaning that was not going to happen in a SKS-CEO/Solms-COO top-heavy family gang environment.
The above content is my opinion.