Howdy David,
Long time no speakee ... I'm in Shanghai most of the time now. I was trying to remember the fellow you introduced me to in China a few years ago. Is he still handling your China dealings?
Your post is pretty much on target, except for one detail. CYGX was intimately involved with setting up AVGI. Malcolm and Lawrence used AVGI as the carrot to lead Dell to tender his resignation from CYGX and to devote his efforts to getting AVGI off the ground. AVGI never had the shrimp or equine license from CYGX. The license was to Bill Waldrop and was given for money that he gave to Mike S in the formative days of CYGX. He was given two licenses .... one for the shrimp and crustacian applications and one for equine applications. Waldrop gave sub-licenses for those to AVGI.
Malcolm rid himself of two directors who dared to ask questions and challenge him and the manner in which Lawrence had structured some of his deals. As he and LW told me, even the mention of their names brought a rage to the CYGX upper management. That left him with only one other person to contend with. He cut a deal with Dell to go into joint venture or at least co-operative arrangement with DG insofar as companion animals were concerned. DG had not finished packing when LW broke into his computer and managed to lose hundreds of hours of our research into the equine applications.
Unfortunately, against the advice of some of his associates, Dell chose to involve the two ex-cygx directors in AVGI. Malcolm had already started craw-fishing on everything he had agreed to in order to get Del out of his hair and give him free reign to completely dominate CYGX. When MS became aware of their involvement, he went ballistic and reneged on everything he had promised Del and me. I think you remember those days well.
Although much misinformation has been posted by some folks who are totally ignorant of what actually occurred, AVGI had several top people in the veterinary medicine field ... including one who used to regularly post on this thread. There was close co-operative effort with Texas A&M and Canadian, British, European and Australian Universities of Veterinary Medicine. There was no need for AVGI to have any physical facilities ... much like CYGX started out and remained for years.
I think you are aware of the connections with BI and the Asian pharmas, so I won't go into that now.
Anyway, good to see you are still alive and kicking ... BTW, guess you saw where my old buddy from the early days passed away. Drop me a line if you have my 'sbcglobal.net' e-mail.
AI
