May not have been "retired." He was beloved by upper mgmt for coming in under budget; IT would not pay for ANYTHING. It was almost like blackmail. If your department needed IT, new software or something, your department was paying for every last Post-It and staple! Notorious tight-wad.
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Mark commented on his retirement in his personal blog: http://mabplace.blogspot.com/
I think OKC is where some jobs will be moving to. Millions are being spent to update the OKC facilities including what was to be a new executive suite for the CIO.
Maybe because Brewer will not leave his family and heritage in Oklahoma and go to California, that's why there is and has been an OKC avter the design center closed. Perhaps it was now mandatory to come to the Corp California base, might be OKC is going to be history so relocate or resign.
Any news on his successor?
You mean he was retired (as a verb). Yeah, decided to hang it up in his own. How old is he? 50 maybe. Sure.
But the question is why suddenly? He was CIO for nearly 20 years and doing a great job at least in the eyes of the management by laying off do many IT folks.
It is always a golden handshake at that level - the push comes with a bag full of money to alleviate the pain ...
Fired? why?
You forgot the quotes around "retire"... make no mistake, this wasn't a decision entirely made by him!
There are many happy IT folks around the world!