Like many other recent VHLM GM openings, there were a lot of really strong candidates (seriously, anyone on the shortlist could easily fill the role just fine, and even a few outside of the shortlist could as well). If you did not get this, it's likely not a matter of you necessarily doing something wrong (and please keep that in mind) but more a matter of only having a single spot to give and far more than a single qualified candidate. In this particular case, the guy we went with is (drum roll please)