Nothing but a scapegoat if they replace him with another accountant instead of an engineer.

It doesn’t matter if the CEO was an engineer or not in a previous life. The job of a CEO doesn’t change and he did exactly what he was supposed to do: made shortsighted decisions that maximised profit and took the fall for it when the short-sightedness of those decisions blew up in their faces.

Until the merger, Boeing was engineer-driven. They were well known for safety first and design over cost.

www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/business/…/index.html

There are hundreds of articles on this topic and you rant without knowing the topic.

That doesn’t change what I said. He did exactly what all boards expect their CEOs to do nowadays. No board of directors expects their CEO to have actual product knowledge.

That isn’t true at all. Intel has a history of it, Boeing, Tesla, etc.

Many companies have a history of having a CEO who has product knowledge.