I really hope that many shareholders will attend the AGM. We can not complain and then ignore the opportunity to challenge the Afdawn Board and management on issues that may worry us. There are more than 2,000 shareholders and it seems like that only a handful get to see the real picture?
I am very intrigued by the apparent business model as I understand it; an unsecured lending leg (Elite), some other non productive assets and a division (KC/Grindstone) that is focussed on free and subsidised training and support to selected SME's. This is so 'not sexy"!
From the KC website "Grindstone does not profit from fees nor take equity stakes in any of the participating companies unless arms-length funding terms are agreed upon later on. The business model is based on a long-term upside incentive of investing in some participating companies cultivated through the programme via Knife Capital".
KC was acquired to support the introduction of the so called Afdawn vision and it was stated that there was a pipeline of investment opportunities - nothing yet?
A Rights Issue was done on certain assumptions; shareholders that supported the RI can surely expect the Board and management to apply the funds to the objectives as were set out in the various related document?
Previous SENS announcements re Board appointees gave a lot of background and motivation - not with the latest appointment. How will this appointment add to the entrepreneurial DNA of the Board? (a question not a statement!)