COO-CEO Partnership Design — Who Owns What, Who Decides What

Draft a CEO-COO operating contract in 60 minutes with CEO Andrés Vargas-Quesada at Petrolia S.A. Negotiate a 12-domain decision-rights matrix — capital allocation thresholds, SVP veto, customer escalations, public voice, board prep, regional GM accountability, M&A, crisis response — with the discipline that exactly one party Decides per cell. Survive four stress-test scenarios (Friday customer crisis, cabinet departure, press question, capex defense) drawn from the Cook-Jobs, Sandberg-Zuckerberg, Iger-Staggs, and Schmidt-Page-Brin partnership canon. The contract is short because it is meant to be held in the head, not consulted in the binder.