Saphire's Line Up Mr. Gator
Obviously, they have an all star cast but in my opinion they also have alot of chiefs and not enough indians. They have millions upon millions in investments over there. Therefore, those executives who already have enough money in the bank to retire 10 times over are probably seeing the push toward algae and want to be right in the middle of the algae explosion and reap some of that banked cash for themselves. Those top three executives will commend quite a large salary. They are not going to work for free !!!! Believe me. I cannot believe how much I know about algae but it is almost comical to think that Saphire would even mention OPEN pond. That would be like me trying to get my kids to use a cassette player versus an I-POD.
Now, I may be off base a little but this is my opinion. I would rather invest my money with Dennis Fisher because this is his "personal baby" and he has a heck of alot more drive about Behl-- kind of like Bill Gates in his start up days and Steve Jobs of Apple (These guys were so far above the rest and could see the future potential of their products which know one else could comprehend). Fisher KNOWS what Behl has and I believe he knows that know one in our industry has all the puzzle pieces lined up like we do. I do not think for a minute that those executives over at Saphire will be working til 10:00 pm/ 11:00 pm at night or pulling all nighters. I also bet that they will not be working Saturdays and Sundays. In addition, Monique Berry is darn near as passionate as Fisher. The people we have added fill needed voids...Sanchez, Gass, Goodall, Maddox. Fisher is not going to hire ANYONE unless they add immediate value to get this machine running.
I will take Fisher's blue collar Ass Kicken pit bull type personality over any PhD. Fisher has immense wisdom, drive, passion and hands on, street smart business sense. He may not have an MBA or PhD but he has to have something special or the world class talent that joined Behl in the past month would have never come on board.
Behl Gates believes in his DD and has utmost trust in Fisher's motives. I wonder how many of those other exec's would care enough about their shareholders to make personal calls, e-mails, allow onsite visits. Fisher has nothing to hide. He made mistakes like all humans do but over and over the mistakes are fixed and we continue to make HUGE progress in the right direction month after month. Behl executives will be rewarded properly right along with the shareholders by executing the business plan growing profitable sales which will result in Share Price Appreciation the "Litmus Test" by which will be graded upon.
Behl Gates IMHO....Good luck to all the believers who have done their homework and endured many challenging times.
