Two of the SA’s highest non-elected officials resigned Tuesday night. Ellen Wexler, the SA’s chief of staff, and Will Donovan, the chief administrative officer, both left President Audai Shakour’s cabinet Tuesday over difference in leadership ideology, according to Shakour.

Considered a surprise by many SA senators, Wexler and Donovan were a glue that held the executive together from the first day’s Shakour decided he would run for SA President up to the days before their resignation. Shakour said he wanted to push the executive in one way and his two closest advisors had a different vision for the SA. Shakour said Wexler, a senior, and Donovan, a junior, will be sorely missed.

“It’s saddening,” Shakour said before Tuesday night’s senate meeting in the Marvin Center.

“Will and Ellen controlled the tempo of my cabinet and this is a huge loss, we’ve been in this together from the beginning, all the way up until today,” Shakour said.

Shakour will replace Wexler with deputy chief of staff Gina Fernandes, a sophomore, and said Vice President of Undergraduate Affairs John Och will take an increased role in the cabinet’s planning.