CEO of a big company, but not a well known name. He retired a while back. I'd rather not give too much of my work history away, and his name wouldn't be of much use to anyone.

I only met him a few times but he was one of those guys who seemed to be able to figure you out from the start and knew how to connect with you just instinctively. It probably helped that his early history was engineering, then sales, then up the executive chain. He understood the 'types' of folks who did those jobs and how to work with them.

Thank you for your reply. It wasn't my intention to make you reveal too much about yourself, so no problem here.

Sounds like an interesting character either way. You already need to possess a lot of mental flexibility and social intelligence to thrive inside both engineering culture AND marketing culture.