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Here’s Howe I Walked Away With 200K

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Gail’s Ronin story caught our eye Thursday, so we did a little digging on the strategy consultant, Michael Howe that they have hired and how it seems he is set to walk away with a cool USD 200K in cash and 300,000 shares at a nice discounted price.

Michael Howe

Based on what we can see, this is all about healthcare at this stage but mind you, with an active† deal on the street for the Wendys/Arbys Group in the U.S., folks will wonder if Wireless Ronin has somehow tried to buy influence on the deal (Michael C. Howe not only formerly served as Chief Executive Officer of MinuteClinic but also as Chief Executive Officer of Arby’s).

However, our best guess is that his ‘consulting project’ is aimed at delivering either a deal with MinuteClinic, his former company now owned by CVS, or some kind of a healthcare-related strategy for Ronin.

Documents released by the company state that the consulting project entails an assessment of the management team and enhancement of Ronin’s business plan.

For three months work (the consulting project will be completed by the end of March 2011) Howe’s new business will walk away with USD 200,000 in cash

Mr. Howe is also given a ten-year non-qualified stock option for the purchase of 300,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of USD 1.40 per share, representing the closing price of one share of RNIN common stock on the NASDAQ Capital Market on December 16, 2010.

Not a bad piece of work if one can get it!

Seems his company’s web site www.howeassociates.net, isn’t ready yet, but we did find test.howeassociates.net his test site !!

† We are never sure just how ‘active’ some of these QSR RFPs in the US ever are!


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2 Responses to “Here’s Howe I Walked Away With 200K”

  1. anon Says:
    December 30th, 2010 at 13:41 @612

    Interesting. Anyone who knows the in-store clinic space knows that there is often a wait/queue DOOH app. Given Ronin’s recent focus on menu boards it makes sense. It’s really just the same software is my guess. Everyone in the tech space should be running after it.

  2. Anon Says:
    December 30th, 2010 at 22:52 @994

    for what it’s worth, $200K is a very reasonable price for a 4 month strategy review, if that’s what he’s doing. Hiring one of the big strategy consultancies would run at least 4x that for half the time….

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