Quoted out of context.
Your post:
"I totally agree that lacking John Bourque's direct involvement in current and future advances in the Kryron process, this company has enough today to acquire sales with companies that "doesn't require so much hand holding.""
I did not say anything about John Bourque's direct involvement in current and future advances in the Kryron process. The kind of hand holding JBT was asking for in their LOI is not appropriate for a customer, IMO. If Kryron has a lower thermal resistance and less weight than stock aluminum and is useful as heat sink material then the market is much bigger than a single LED manufacturer.
Now I will say a few words about John Bourque.
Any competent engineer keeps an engineering notebook that documents all work performed. Without the notebook and documented processes, it would not be possible to accurately duplicate what has been discovered. The notebooks are protected as valuable intellectual property by the company. John Bourque is obviously a very competent engineer and therefore, the engineering notebooks for Kryron exist.
JB has already accomplished the hard part - development of Kryron. Optimization of the secret sauce for lowest thermal resistance is not rocket science. It is a straight forward engineering process that many MS engineering or physics graduates, with experience, are competent to handle even though they did not develop the original Kryron process.
Contrary to what JBT may believe, John Bourque's personal hand is not required to provide them with optimized Kryron. I state this as fact based on many years working as a senior scientist, engineering fellow, professional engineer, and teaching math, physics, and engineering at the college level. A 35-40 year old top-notch materials engineer with an MS degree and the right experience can handle the job.
The same, well known engineering processes, can be used to optimize Kryron for electrical conductivity, strength, expansion coefficients, corrosion, or any other parameter.
I am most impressed with CPT Brent Willis's background. He and I worked on many of the same programs. CPT Willis is a graduate engineer with experience. He will ask the right questions and provide the appropriate guidance for successful BI engineering.
The quality of people selected for board members and the smooth transition speaks well for the advance planning accomplished by JB and Sean.
GotMilk, if you are so inclined, I suggest that a simple update of the names and management positions might be more appropriate for the sticky note than looking backward at the cow pasture we just walked through.
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