What stings, he said, isn’t the handover itself. “Ten years is a long time to put a system in place, and to believe in that system, knowing I could disappear tomorrow and things wouldn’t change.”
The harder part has been telling regular clients and suppliers who assumed he would be there indefinitely that he is moving on. “Every conversation got a little more personal,” he said.
While his succession at Odette remains unresolved, Tan said the process is being handled with restraint. He has given Royer a shortlist but deliberately stayed out of the final decision. “I didn’t want to overly influence it,” he said. “I want to have a clean break, without people saying, this is what Vincent did, or this is what Vincent would have done.”
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