We’re talking about Jimmy Wales, Sue Gardner, and Erik Moeller, all of the Wikimedia Foundation, of course. And don’t belittle the chances of this hypothetical happening — it already came terrifyingly close, once already: https://www.flickr.com/photos/frieda/1729725629/
Now that Mike Godwin is gone, and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees is the ineffectual Ting Chen, who would assume command of the Wikimedia Foundation operations?