Yes I do find it intriguing. You would imagine that the new CEO will be a name of equal or bigger status than AM, since he will play a major role in hiring them. Surely, for POET to appoint a new CEO in Jan, then this person will had to have resigned from his/her current post months ago. Working on those assumptions Rory Read jumps to the top of my list. Maybe there are others I have not heard about though?