As you already Said @dan is working on EOS now after being flagged $2000+ on on a single post by @ned and pushed out with hostile work environment .... no matter if ned took back the flagging "Flagged for aggrandizement" wwith that oen action ned proved he was not ready to be CEO especially if he was that blind to how it would look and it proved he had plenty of free time and wa sjust making up excuses about iut, because if he had time to flag dan larimer's blog post that took dan maybe an hour to write, it proved Ned was petty and a liar who wasnt actually working on anything important he wss just reading over his ex pertners posts with jelousy, unable to allow him to actually USE the platform as it was intended, jhe just sank back into tribalism, TTALLY failing the test .... Im sure theer were extra terrestrials watching ov3er humanity at that poiont, wondering if Ned Scott was worthy enough to allow an explosion of new ideas on his platform, and then its gone...... im sure there was a universe wree ned DID NOT flag dans post and instead left a nice commenta nd created a real debate that could have actually launched a real competition inside of steem to compete with EOS.... but nope ned just threw all that away and just flagged it and I bet that could have been a real turning point for steem....... if ned would have just replied with a top level comment upvoting it instead of flagging dans post, he could have opened up a real debate and helped create new stars on the steem blockchain.... but instead we had a crybaby prove he wasnt ready to have all that power..... a lesson in power corrupting etc etc... human nature and all that....
Now about your list, Calfee, Johnson, Zavgord i hhave heard of them at all.... and @vandeberg hes working on SMTs and is a developer he is not CEO material nor does he want to be, hes way more important than a CEO and does actual work...., however i bet he could be CEO if he wanted to but why would we hire someone for CEO when hesd a developer? Besides Vandeberg I dont see anyone else publicly working on steem anymore on that list .... theres a lot of NEW people we can pick from like @aggroed
The only people who could be made heads of Steemit Inc should be chosen by a council of whales who have proven themselves like @timcliff @themarkymark @fyrstikken @neoxian @surfyogi and many more, but we cant just do a Witness style stake weighted vote, as NEd will just get to pick teh winner lol....theres a very clear answer to who should be made ceo of steemit inc BUT its neds company and we should ask, who should be CEO of STEEM BLOCKCHAIn and create ea symbolic position voted on by a DAC or DAO... which will be difficult as @blocktrades cant even get a dao up for 50 thousand steem or dollars or whatever..... i know there are steemians who would have done it for free.,... and theer were even people substituting designs in the blocktrades posts that never happened....
Anyway I think @aggroed should be CEO of the Steem Blockchain .... we shoudl issue titles and vote on them.... and pay peopel in a special steem-engine token DAO investors ccan buy to help pay out workers help steem...