“In most companies those are two distinct functions, or the person in charge of both has been out of the field for so long that they don’t have relevant operational experience. Finding someone skilled in both disciplines is like looking for a needle in a haystack.”
“We needed a CEO with the operational skill set to get the right things in place from a people, process and technology perspective to allow us to produce that many firearms, and to know how to exploit that advantage in the marketplace. And, we needed someone with strength in customer service, marketing, sales, production and quality.”