"my boss recruited a CTO after telling me that he would never recruit a manager for the tech"
In these sorts of situations, where your boss has lied to you, or echoing joelennon's comment, didn't first explain to you why this change needed to be made, it's hard to see an acceptable solution other than one of you leaving the company. Whatever respect you've thought you've earned doesn't see to be there, does it?
Another issue: you now have competition as a technical director, and if you are, as it sounds, great at tech and not so great at politics (you were, after all, blindsided by this), you may not like what's going to be happening at your company. E.g. one story of Netscape's decline and fall on the browser side is their acquiring an unsuccessful company and the people from that company somehow managing to wrest control of the development of the next generation browser, and abjectly failing.
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"my boss recruited a CTO after telling me that he would never recruit a manager for the tech"
In these sorts of situations, where your boss has lied to you, or echoing joelennon's comment, didn't first explain to you why this change needed to be made, it's hard to see an acceptable solution other than one of you leaving the company. Whatever respect you've thought you've earned doesn't see to be there, does it?
Another issue: you now have competition as a technical director, and if you are, as it sounds, great at tech and not so great at politics (you were, after all, blindsided by this), you may not like what's going to be happening at your company. E.g. one story of Netscape's decline and fall on the browser side is their acquiring an unsuccessful company and the people from that company somehow managing to wrest control of the development of the next generation browser, and abjectly failing.
I.e. Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bu...