I don't know, but I believe he is the guy who wrote the recent Seeking Alpha blog posts. For all I know he could be one of the posters here...His research seems good (SA blog).
Micheal Shenik , I'm not sure he has worked for GALT in the past all i know is that he's friends with Peter Traber and Jim Czirr whose a guy not to be trusted when he writes wonderful things about GALT. That's my opinion about his friend's and GALT.
This EDGAR extract lists an individual with the same name as one of the persons to whom common stock was offered as part of a prospectus by Galectin Therapeutics Inc (GALT). In the EDGAR system this was record 424B3, filed 1/26/2004.
The same individual recently posted an article about TPIV and in that article included some "promotional" statements about GALT. More detail is available but may not be suitable to post here.