Once the new CEO, Gary Allan Wood takes over, give him 16 months to produce a 180 in the building, if he cannot acheive that, terminate the management company’s contract, and start over.
Wood confirms to STORMLAND News that he has resigned as the CEO of the Washington Pavilion. He said it was his own decision and that he is excited about a lot of new opportunities that have come his way.
And the fact that he got tired of the board of directors having him by the balls.
Wood declined to say what opportunities he has been offered, but he says he will talk about his decision in more detail Friday.
I guess it takes a day or so to come up with the proper lie to tell the public. As I have said in the past, I hear a lot of silly rumors that I never post about. Someone tipped me off about this about a month ago, they said, “From what I hear, Wood and the Board of Directors are not seeing eye to eye and it is causing major tension.” Which didn’t surprise me, but it really wasn’t something I could say much about until now.
Of course, the Board of Directors kind of candy coats the resignation by not answering why he left;
“Gary came with some wonderful experience and knowledge of the arts, and he’s done some good things for us, and we’ve been pleased,” Pay said Thursday night.
“But we’ve reached a point this year – a horrible year for all arts organizations – where we’re scrambling to find out what it is we need to be going to prepare ourselves for this economic climate in the new year,” she said.
Okay, so why did he leave? I hope Wood has the gonads to blow the roof off of that place once and for all and tell the public about the Board of Directors and how they run the place with an iron fist with the help of their puppet and spy, Director of Operations, Jon Loos.
And if you have to have a meeting about this blog post, you have identified one problem already.