After becoming CEO of Omnicorps, Timothy Werner rolled out the New Protocols. It did not go well.
Hello and welcome to revolutions.
Episode 11.5 the New Protocols we left off last time with the election of 2244, which saw a complete turnover of Omnicorp's board of directors.
It was the end of an era.
And no matter what, this would have been a momentous turning point in the history of the company.
Vernon Byrd and his geriatric board had been in power for nearly 90 years, and now suddenly they weren't.
So whatever happened next, Omnicorp would be moving in a new direction.
But it is a really super momentous turning point in the history of Omnicorps and the history of humanity generally.
Because it just so happened that this new direction led directly to the Martian Revolution.
The first thing the new Board of Directors did was select a new CEO.
If you will recall from last time, after the death of Vernon Byrd, the Board of directors, or more precisely the aides and secretaries who were actually running the show, announced that Karen Killingsworth would replace the late bird on March 8, 2244.
Her tenure as CEO wound up lasting just over nine months, because on December 12, 2244, the new board of Directors convened for the first time.
And their first order of business was electing a new CEO.
Maybe, I don't know, somebody under the age of like 75.
There were several contenders for the job.
High ranking Omnicore executives who commanded enough support among the new members of the board to consider themselves viable candidates.
And though obviously we know who's actually going to win, there are two names I want to throw out there because both of them will come back.
One was Jin Wong, who had risen to become head of the legal division in the late 2,230s.
The other was Kamal Singh, who was head of Personnel.
Both were powerful and influential executives, especially given the autonomous latitude division heads had acquired during the later Byrd years.
But neither Wong nor Singh commanded as many votes on the board as young Timothy Werner.