Chapter 199 - A woman who plays it rough (1/2)
Shen Mao had a large limo to come to pick them all up. Only Shen Mao and Lena would be going with the investors. Henry decided to opt-out so he can take care of the rest of the day business at the company.
When they arrived at the restaurant, they all sat down on the long table. Tyler was acting like an ecstatic teenage boy who got eat lunch with his crush.
They all ordered and as they wait for the food to arrive, instead of talking about business, they went to talk about Lena.
”CEO Shen, will your daughter be the next CEO after you?” COO Brown asked.
Shen Mao looked at Lena then back at COO Brown. But before he could reply, Lena took the initiative.
”I will not. The next CEO position will go to Henry Han. Although I won't be that, I'll make sure that I am still an active part of the company.”
”Would you go for Chairman then?” COO Brown asked.
”Chairman... I don't know about that. It will depend on who I will marry in the future.” Lena responded. ”Afterall, I wish to be a wife and mother before all of that.”
”Spoke very well. You are truly a great woman. I believe you will go great things no matter where you go.”
”Thank you.”
In the Shen company, the current Chairman was Grandpa Shen while the CEO was Shen Mao. A chairman leads the board of directors which was essentially a team that checks and balance with the CEO, making sure that the CEO was properly running the company.
Some companies have the chairman and the CEO as the same person. Others have the Chairman as the ex-CEO. However, for the Shen family, after Shen Mao retires, he wanted to take a break. The next Chairman would most likely be Lena or her uncle Shen Mo, who mainly runs the farm with Grandpa Shen.
Shen Mo oversees the international business of the Shen Company along with the CEO. The Shen family was not a family who think that all the power of a company must stay within the bloodline of the family.
As long as the core values and foundation of the company is respected and continue to be achieved, it does not matter who is the CEO or Chairman. However, to make sure that such a situation does not go out of hand, the Shen family still have the most shares in their company so they can decide who was the next chairman.
When the food arrived, COO Brown and Tyler battled to earn Lena's favor. Lena did not know why COO Brown was so motivated to go against a teenage boy. She could guess that COO Brown wanted to set Lena up with his own son or someone from the Sanders family.
”Miss. Shen,” Tyler spoke. ”You should come to visit the Huang Company sometime in City D. I'll be happy to show you around our company sometime.”
COO Brown cleared his throat. ”You should come to City B and visit the new head company of Cyrus. It would be a great opportunity to introduce you to CEO Sanders.”
”CEO Sanders, I have heard many great things about him. I would love to meet him.” Lena replied, ignoring Tyler's first offer.
”Absolutely! How about we set a date right now?”
”Now?”
COO Brown does not want to lose to the Tyler Huang. ”Yes, how about the following week on Friday?”
”Sure.” Lena replied.
COO Brown was happy. He turned to Shen Mao and they chatted some more about business in China. Lena glanced at Tyler who was still staring at her. She gave him another fake smiled.
”Excuse me, gentleman.” Lena got up to go the restroom. When she got out, she checked her phone if she got any messaged from Kris, and she did.
Kris: How did it go?