red, with all due respect, your observational skills seem lacking. The Board, in all its wisdom awarded options based on their employees' performance, which likely included performance with the DMD program. CG's options appear to reflect a board extremely happy with his operational performance. The forms were filed with the SEC 27 days before CG suddenly resigned. You think the Board had a change of mind? Keep in mind these are just the options portion of the employee bonus program. We have yet to see what the cash amount was.
Options granted, with the footnote of 1/4th vesting on next anniversary date of grant. [Options granted at 13.90]
Aphale - 85,000
Howton - 86,000
Sandesh - 126,000
Kaye - 163,000
Garabedian 373,000