So why have the heirs apparent left the company?
Richard Meddings, the finance director and long-time heir apparent, leaves at the end of this month.
A nephew, Hans-Jürgen Riegel, long accepted as the Haribo heir apparent, left the company in 2006, having failed to persuade the old man to hand over control and retire.
Mr. David-Weill named Steven Rattner deputy chief executive as Felix Rohatyn, the firm's top banker, and Edouard Stern, Mr. David-Weill's son-in-law and one-time heir apparent, left.
At times of crisis - such as the economic recession - the brittleness of a value system built on wealth and a particular conception of autonomy becomes all too apparent, leaving people without the sustaining reserves of a faith to fall back on.
Cloud providers and frameworks supporting this on a practical level are as yet not apparent, leaving the direct use of QoS parameters in SLAs for negotiation via Cloud Brokers very much on our future trajectory.
Just by looking at it, you can tell who the advertiser is, and the publisher, but the intermediaries — the ad networks, agencies, and affiliate networks — aren't apparent, leaving you in the dark if you really want to understand how a campaign was executed.
Thomas Staggs, Iger's former heir apparent, left Disney's No. 2 post last year.
Thomas Staggs, Iger's former heir apparent, left Disney's No. 2 post last year after Disney's board privately expressed a lack of confidence in him — throwing carefully orchestrated succession plans into question.
