New Lead Developer

Good afternoon all.
We just brought onboard a new lead developer at our company. My manager got promoted and the new hire will be my new manager. I was one of the people who interviewed the new LD. I had firmly declined bringing him in. However, he being a friend of our company’s CIO was brought onboard. I know how much knowledge he has as far as development is concerned. He was workign with PIVOTAL a CRM system, where you just use UI to do the logic. I dont understand how can he be a project lead especially in programming. I dont have a good feeling about this. What are your views on this matter ?