Davo,
If you say so, they don't look all that well known. Had you heard of them before they were nominated? Also how can you say they don't know the investors, the investors were working with Republic and Republic has has worked with these guys a few times. Arrow, Acer, and now Dart. Each one doing worse than the other.
Nope, I don't see them coming in and making things better. I see them coming in and quickly finding out the limitations of being a board member on the other side of the world and having to deal with Alaska. My bet, they try to sell it as quickly as they can.
I doubt they will have as much patience for current management as Curtis appears to have, and I am pretty sure they won't be pulling deals out of their @#$$ to save the company.
I'm not too worried either way because I am pretty sure their will be a bounce. If they come in I'll sell on the bounce wait for them to announce their "plan" and if the shares crater I'll probably buy back in and wait for a "for sale" sign.