https://www.imb.org/2018/11/06/chitwood-candidate/
There was a lot of conversation on some blogs among some Southern Baptists about the IMB getting a minority candidate, someone with mission field experience and a missionary perspective to fill its Presidency. If there's to be a minority tapped for SBC exec service, it won't be the IMB that does it. Nor do they seem inclined to pick someone who spent time on the mission field, or with anyone currently in a leadership position in the organization itself. They nominated a state convention executive director.
Noting that he was once chair of the IMB trustee board, that's about the only prior connection he has to the organization itself. Not that being the exec director of a state convention, especially Kentucky which is a relatively large state convention, isn't good qualification for running a Baptist organization, any organization, but it's not where the conversation seemed to be going.