«Only one person thought Kathryn was the right choice to be- come CEO of DecisionTech, Inc. Luckily for her, that per- son was the Chairman of the board. And so, less than a month after the previous chief ex- ecutive had been removed, Kathryn Petersen took the reins of a company that just two years earlier had been one of the most talked-about, well-funded, and promising start-up companies in the recent history of the Silicon Valley. She could not have known just how far from grace the com- pany had fallen in such a short period of time, and what the next few months had in store for her.»