On nearly every board where I write about the company, someone will suggest that I contact the CEO directly with my questions, and my response is usually similar to this one I posted on the LIBE board on June 9, 2016:
The reason I don't converse with these CEOs
I don't know if I'm worried about some sort of Stockholm Syndrome-like situation developing, but one reason I don't contact the CEOs of pink sheet companies I write about is because I have the feeling that most of them are very engaging and persuasive, and getting to know them on a personal level "lowers the shields", so to speak, making one more succeptible to their charms and less inclined to be critical.
Maybe that's some of what's happening here with LIBE and Winters/Conway.