I am a CEO...anyone can be a CEO...you just have to register your business and give yourself a title. So, you are correct that it has nothing to do with the situation. I have also been a president, a guru, and someone who delivered newspapers in life...actually I owned that paper route in 3rd grade. I guess of I wanted to I could have been the first 3rd grade paper route CEO.
That's correct. CTAD is not an investors conference. Research and trial results at CTAD are almost always presented by the HR/PI, and that's very likely the case here (McFarlane). It means nothing, and fantasy dots of confirmatory wonderfulness by claimed CEOs should be ignored. There's a lot of nonsense out there.