Blane, my experience of PF is that he could not be told...

Blane, my experience of PF is that he could not be told anything. He had fixed views, whether through naivety or arrogance I do not know. As an example, several years ago BLT withdrew from their Chinese project citing (I paraprase) he could not work with the Chinese. At the time I had quite a bit of experience doing deals in China (and in 26 other countries where I have negotiated more than 100 successful joint ventures) and I offered to help him for free. I never even got a response. If Peter carried this attitude forward, it's no surprise that no company would want to deal with someone so intractable. But he is gone now and we move forwards. I hope that we get a deal maker to run the company. Not some academic who regards shareholders as a necessary nuisance to fund their research.