The practice partner and Managing Director who ran the quantitative/tech practice was the former Gabelli CTO and was great to work for as a consultant, but after some personal family issues, he moved back to a hedge fund on the west coast. After his departure, the head of capital raising/seeding line of business left followed by the legal and compliance person. The company was left with Brian and he focused only on recruiting only. This made it impossible to get back to the more interesting, profitable, and sustainable projects that generated the most revenue and let to the recruiting opportunities. The model was broken and Brian was unreliable and untrustworthy.