At Ardea Barry was a good head of R&D
At Heron for his first 5 years, he was CEO in name only - Kevin was pulling all the strings. Still, as CEO he was a great head of R&D
Now that he's Chairman of the Board, he is still a great head of R&D.
The guy has been over his head for a good while. Problem is that Kevin is no longer pulling the strings - he's a marionette without an operator. Sleepwalking through his failed management style with no one kicking his a** like in the past.
The continuing strategy of trying to run everything because he can't manage in a greater way, disempowering every other employee by making all the decisions for them, and making sure that the sheep are the ones who stay to the bitter end has been a formula that worked twice - Agouron and Ardea. The formula doesn't work so well at Heron....
He has "alternate facts" on everything, shareholders who in the past knew all he does is lie, but still made a lot of money on him in the past, are starting to figure out that maybe the first two won't repeat a third time.
