Welcome. Although i am very pessimistic regarding this appointment i am still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt based on his overall experience and managerial competences alone, don’t care about the political influence side because that’s highly volatile anyway, as well as subjective, but as long as he is already here there’s not much left to do now other than to just hope he will somehow do well and that he doesn’t turn out to be just another shady appointment down the line.