My last post on the subject....

The point I was making regarding the highschool dropout is that ANYONE regardless of chosen career path, can be a valuable board member. YOU chose to label certain board members useless BECAUSE they were a CPA and a doctor. Yet I would be willing to bet you've never spoken to them, you've never asked other board members about their value, you've never been to a board meeting - so how do you know they are not valuable. YOU DON'T. As for techie's on the board , there are 2 vacant board seats - why not fill these with a techie and investment banker as someone else suggested. And further, you don't necessarily need a techie on the BOD to be able to get advice from a techie regarding an acquisition. You hire consultants. In fact, there are consultants out the for just that purpose. So who would you rather have, someone that is involved at that level every day (consultant) or someone with a technical background that "might" be familiar with a certain industry/product/company. I know what I would rather have. But then again, you're the one that said you'd rather have a CFO than a CPA - might bet is that 75% of CFO's out there are CPA's. But then wtfdik.