This year at silverorange, the Web design and development company where I work, we welcomed Clare Raspopow as CEO of silverorange. Clare is the third person to take on the CEO role in our 24-year history, and the first who was not among the original founding partners in 1999.

Clare has been in the role since January. The nice benefit of making our public announcement after six months is that I already know (though I was always confident) that we found the right person.

Welcome Clare, and thanks to Isa, who did the job so well for the past 8 years.

While running a company for over two decades and successfully transitioning the leadership is a significant accomplishment, I’m also proud of the term we coined for this transition: The Clareification. Naming things is hard.