Just a pure speculation! (Sulasailor might you can get some feedback ?)

If the real reason to visit Great Britain was in first-instance to have a meeting with Simon Segar CEOARM in Cambridge ?

SNPS AND ARM RULE!: Going into DAC'14, one major predictor of what the hot
hard IP was going to be there was Gartner's 2013 semiconductor IP data:

ARM Holdings Ltd: ############################ ($1,058.4 M) 43.2%
Synopsys DesignWare: ######## ($340.6 M) 13.9%
Imagination Tech/MIPS: #####($220.5 M) 9.0%
Cadence Denali: ### ($125.0 M) 5.1%

If Globalfoundry is the 3rd Party Foundry:

Ajit has a strategic mission since beginning!

From 2012: ARM and Globalfoundries hammer out 20nm Chips mobile chips

From Dec. 2013: Ajit Manocha hire Samsung SVP Ana Hunter to get the deal with Apple

Jan. 14: Ajit leaves GF as CEO and remains Advisor of Globalfoundry

July 14: Ajit Board Member of POET Technologies

Nov. 14: Appointment as Co-CEO with task to hire the next CEO in 2015!

POET lost BoD in 2014-15:

- Leon M. Pierhal
- Lee Shepherd
- Mark Benadiba
- Dr. Adam Chowaniec
- Sam Peralta

Remaining BoD : Ajit, Peter, Geoff, Daniel and Stephane as BoD

BoD Speculation:

If Rory Read should be named as the new CEO than might this the new BoD with remaining BoD:

- John Byrne (ex AMD General Manager)
- Colette LaForce (ex AMD Chief Marketing Officer)
- Raj Naik (ex AMD Chief Strategy Officer)

Or POET is a bigger Deal included in 3rd Party Foundry (GF):

There might be no need for further BoD as POET will be a part of 3rd Party foundry (GF?)