W.L. Gore is a very large, privately held company with HQ in Flagstaff, AZ. Several years ago, I had worked off and on over several years in NYC and Phoenix on behalf of Gore in a patent infringement suit brought for a jury trial in Phoenix.
No mention by any of 6 new BOD members of what you post, at least that I heard. Indeed, but for Dr. Lias, I heard none of the other 5 new BOD members speak at all about anything---all 6 that were there at the front table[one could not attend the ASM at all due to snow in N.Car.] had secreted themselves out of our sight until shortly before 10 am when they all filed in from a heretofore closed door, sat down in chairs with name placards in front of them, were introduced by either the new BOD chairman[who welcomed us and called the meeting to order] or Dr. Lias[I forget which]; the new BOD chair and Dr. Lias had evidently decided who should thereafter speak and run the meeting, and it was all Dr. Lias after that who stepped to the microphone to speak.
After the meeting was adjourned post Q&A session, we were in a large group of SHs and employees who lined up in front of that same door mentioned above for an Avid/Myford facility tour...I do not know where the BOD members went, or whether any remaining SHs had an opportunity to speak to them.
In a curious way, I personally felt I was back in the courtroom at 717 Madison Place in Washington, D.C., where I had argued many appellate cases before a 5-judge tribunal, sitting at a more elegant bench with placards identifying them by name in front of them. A major difference--at least those judges asked questions.
