A corporate executive, usually high up the chain of command, who makes decisions for a company based on financials alone and not based on natural fluctuations, ebbs, and flows of the market.
After the company reduced its workforce by ten percent in order to satisfy the bottom-line feeders and their need to increase revenue, customer service suffered and many patrons sought help elsewhere.
Is a term used to describe someoneunwilling to quit or give up, even at the risk of one's own safety, sanity or life.
Only a Paul Feeney would walk across that burning broken glass on the edge of a cliff to save that half-dead, run over puppy from that hungry lion's mouth.
You'd have to be a Paul Feeney to think anything can be done and not just give up already like most mortal men.