Not that I can see at first glance. Drnec has SOME kind of connection to Rhino, and the scam beverage world probably isn't THAT large a place. It's only natural these clowns would find each other. I'm sure Meadows played matchmaker and financier.
Perhaps this explains why Rhino's getting $8,000 in cash and 250,000 shares per month? I wonder how much gets kicked back to Roy as a finders fee?
What IS interesting is the fact that this isn't THCZ's first try at trading on Drnec's name. They actually first floated his name back in December. It went nowhere... only to be revived 5 months later. I guess the "negotiations" fizzled at the time, only to be revived now.
Mr. Harry Drnec served as Managing Director of Red Bull and joined it in 1995. Mr. Drnec is credited with taking the brand away from an energy drink to a product that provides stimulation for body and mind, which created clear distance between Red Bull and other competitors. He began his distinguished career by joining Anheuser Busch. He served as Brand Manager in the high-profile team that introduced what is today the largest selling beer brand in the world, Bud Light. ...
The freewheeling culture allows Mateshitz and Red Bull to attract quirky people who have interesting ideas about taking the brand and the company forward. Harry Drnec, a former CEO of Red Bull’s U.K. operations was a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War and was credited with the spectacular rise of Mexico’s Sol beer in the intensely competitive premium-beer segment in London.
While leading Red Bull (U.K.), Drnec implemented innovative strategies especially in distribution focusing efforts on non-conventional garage forecourts, convenience stores and nightclubs and growing sales from 6 million cans in 1996 to 300 million cans in 2006.