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I want CC to be a great success for AVCT - I don't want her having to be an apologist for AS. However, she was on the BoD when the 50p raise was agreed - can't be denied. Use AS as a scapegoat by all means (he bloody well deserves it) - but she needs to come out of this clean and unblemished.
Thing is PL - CC had been on bthe BoD for two years - she has to distance herself from this debacle - and do so overtly. If not, it will just follow her around - she needs to kitchen-sink it, then bury it - what most new CEOs do.
No - we need to know why they had to raise at 50p - until we know there will be lingering suspicions regarding the science etc. - it needs outing then burying. A new CEO should be a new start - if she doesn't get this buried once and for all it will constantly be luggage she has to carry.
She clearly ducked the 50p raise issue - and I said so in my feedback. Her first outing as CEO she could have kitchen sinked the whole issue - buy chose to be evasive - not a good start IMO (we've had years of that already)!
What had to be done has now been done - and not before time either. CC looks to be an outstanding candidate who has an excellent CV and ticks all the boxes. I would like to think that the useless CFO and Chairman will follow AS out through the door in the not too distant future. Onwards and upwards from here I reckon - and with no loose canon ever threatening to hole the hull again. GLA
So, closed on NYSE up 1.79% at $14.76USD / £11.78GBP - having peaked at $14.94 / £11.92GBP. Looking like another northbound day today too - as ever, fingers firmly crossed. Seems skiramp is getting rather emotional about all this? I'm still looking for BE and outski - and I'm even starting to dare to hope that might actually happen! GLA