BDay, the employment you speak of is President of Fidelity Investments, which was the job he held prior to retiring and later joining Sanswire. The time period listed for that job is Dec 2007 to present (4 years 6 months) as of May 2012. That appears he never surrendered the position at Fidelity at all, and includes the time he was COB for Sanswire/WSGI. Something there doesn't add up. Several of the other jobs listed have overlapping dates. According to this, he was employed at both Fidelity and JPMorgan Chase at the same time for several overlapping years, at Fidelity from 12/06 to 3/10 and at JPMorgan Chase from 1994-2010. How is this explained?
Someone with his background and credentials could probably make one phone call and have his old job back, so I don't think it proves one way or the other that any amount of prior planning would be involved. But I agree with you that Clark did some significant things, like settle the SEC litigation, helped put the company on the radar of others at the Colorado conference, and funded the company directly. I do thank him for his efforts and wish him good health and success in his future endeavors.
If Estrella leaves, I'll wish him the same. :-)