David Cudmore is the recently retired President and CEO of Nova Scotia based Scotian Gold Co-operative Ltd. This case focued on an important decision. Foreseeing his retirement in the not too distant future and aware that the company has grown quite a bit in the last few years, it has become apparent that succession planning and a re-examination of the company's organization structure may be needed. Visit casenet.ca for more free, open access decision focused video teaching cases from Acadia University.