Ovitz also demoted Myron Gottlieb to a vice president position. A former Disney executive who left that company along with ovitz assumed Gottlieb's former position as Livent's president. Among other changes that ovitz made in Livent's corporate structure was the hiring of former KPMG audit partner Robert Webster management to serve as an executive vice president of the company. Webster, who had supervised KPMG's due diligence investigation of Livent's accounting records, was given a broad range of responsibilities, but his principal role was to monitor Livent's accounting and finance functions for Ovitz's new management team.