The company also has money in the bank, having raised $30 million the past couple of years, and a legitimate installed base of customers. Plus, she believes the product is good. "You take one of those away, and it gets tough," Coleman says of Secureworks. "You take two of them away, and its impossible." Another year, another CEO In addition to cleaning out managers loyal to an ex-boss, high-level turnover also can raise questions about what's going on at a company. Some sources say the previous CEO, Robert Minkhorst, who had run Philips Consumer Electronics North America, was simply a "big company guy." Other sources hint at internal power struggles involving the founder, Joan Wilbanks. Exactly a year minus a day before Secureworks announced Cote's hiring, the company with considerable fanfare announced that it had signed up Minkhorst. Whatever the reasons, that experiment obviously didn't work.