It has been confirmed Dr Vinny Pillay does have board membership on several companies. However there is no conflict of interest here - the NIERs operate in different regions of the world and/or serve different customers. This is even less of a problem now that we are talking about the sale of Urea at the same pricing (1 Uro per MT) - so there is no opportunity for fiat currency price fixing (e.g. a cartel of companies agreeing not to sell Urea less then $380 per MT - forcing the purchaser to pay a higher price).
The GES board members, between them, are involved with over 25 different companies in over 10 countries.
Not particularly concerned with price fixing, although i would like it fixed at the subsidized rate for farmers, but that is probably impossible to achieve.
Neither do I care about a conflict of interest, all I care about is that the members of the Uro Foundation are real and accountable. Why not provide an address of all members head offices etc. to disperse fud?
This is not the case of coincidentally being a board member: the GES South Africa address and telephone number correspond, not to VES South Africa, but to Dr Vinny Pillay's own Urea export company Grey Griffin Shipping Solutions in South Africa, which as you have indicated could belong to the Pillay Group.
I am not trying to generate FUD here, like many people I want to believe in this project, but for me there is too much sketchiness regarding the Foundation and the structure of GES.
I appreciate the fact that you are no longer anonymous. I knew who you were, but was not looking to dox anyone. Is this project a GES initiative or your own personal project?
There would be nothing wrong if this was a GES initiative, if it is a large multinational company, this would be seen as a plus, and it obviously has the network capability to export Urea across the globe, so would be perfectly positioned to spearhead such a project. But it is far better to be completely transparent now to ensure long term success of the project, particularly if it has the potential to help farmers.
If you are sincere, I suspect that you have gone about this the wrong way in presenting, as you did initially as the next way to make money, rather than focusing on the beneficial socio-economic impact of a distributed Urea exchange (although you have often refereed to these benefits as one aspect). I think that the central goal should be to lift farmers in India and other countries out of poverty, and that economic model should be developed to best achieve that. (Perhaps, it already does, but I don't fully understand it.) The media attention to such a project would be international and enormous, and bigger than anything you or GES have ever been involved with, as well as being extremely positive for the perception of Bitcoin and economic decentralization.
It is not necessary to simulate success, when far greater success can be achieved on the merit of the idea alone.