Ann: Retirement of Executive Director, page-24

To answer your question, I would depart when it suited me and my priorities and having completed a successfully orchestrated handover to the chosen and appropriately qualified successor, nothing else is relevant.

Dirk's succession to the CEO job was announced back in February following a long apprenticeship and with the bonus of a few months of prep with Nick still in the chair before going live. If you have a look at Dirk's background he is a good fit for the role both technically and operationally and with the pairing with Bob Brookings it looks like a well qualified team to me.

I have met, talked with and listened to the presentations from both Dirk and Bob in Sydney recently and I was impressed both with them personally and their grasp of the business they are in.They emphasised the business imperatives with their stated focus on the bottom line and realignment of the client profile to concentrate the company focus on the big hitters going forward.

I find most of your assertions as somewhat puzzling.