Control4's long-time Chairman (10 years) and co-founder, Will West, resigned last Monday — two days before Christmas.
West, who was the company’s chairman of the board of directors and its chief strategy officer, made a ton of money with Control4. No other company in our industry has been so perfectly groomed for an IPO — and it was always planned that way (Control4 went public in August of this year). Will and Eric Anderson, his co-founder, set up and built Control4 to be the consumer version of what AMX was in the ProAV market — in fact, they both came from AMX. They left to start PHAST Corporation (which was later purchased by AMX and is what caused AMX to change its name to Panja — remember that?)