I have several suggestions regarding the senior managers:

Hiring options:
- Offer stock options (to compensate the lower salary)
- Disallow him to buy (more) stock options as long as he is employed (I am not sure how common this is in real world, but in the game he would buy stock options and > 50%, he would kick me out. So basically I give him a high salary, and then eventually he can get rid of me using "my" money)

When he is an employee:
- Decide annual targets, and assign annual bonus if the targets are satisfied.
- Ability to ask the senior manager to lower his/her salary if the company is in poor financial condition. I think that if the relationship is good, and the senior manager has tons of cash, he would more likely agree to this.

I'm looking forward for this. Thanks!!

There will be a person without any expertise, regardless of which AI expertise setting you have selected on the new game setting menu. This allows you to hire a COO for a lower salary cost, which is particularly useful when your company is at its early growth stage.

Will his/her abilities be limited? Can they gain skills or expertise over time based on what firms they are delegated to? Any plans for the AI to hire executives? (ability to poach)

Here is a preview of the Improvements to the Hiring System in the upcoming new version 2.1.02:

There will be a person without any expertise, regardless of which AI expertise setting you have selected on the new game setting menu. This allows you to hire a COO for a lower salary cost, which is particularly useful when your company is at its early growth stage.

The person is usually listed as the 2nd person on the Person Report in the Information Center. Such a person will never set up a company on his/her own, and thus is always available for hire.

In addition, the total number of persons in a game has been increased to 50, providing you with more choices when it comes to hiring senior managers.

Finally, the salaries of COO, CMO and CTO have been adjusted for improved gameplay balance.