It was politics. CEO was new and wanted to get previous senior m

so CEO got this guy over to replace one of the SVP but intend to get rid of the group so he didn't need/want to do anything. he worked there for 1 years and got rid of all ppl below him that he didn't even have an assistant. he worked by himself doing who knows what (he never left his office and every time we passed by was reading some books) for another 2 years till CEO replaced all the SVPs with his own people. Then one day he mysteriously disspeared.