Mr Borghetti said Mr Dixon and chief financial officer Peter Gregg were among high-level staff who worked on the deal.
"Senior management . . . (including) Geoff, Peter, me . . . a lot of time was taken up with this thing," he told an American Chamber of Commerce lunch.
[my bold] "It went about six months. You couldn't get your job done. You had to sort of abandon it.
"You couldn't focus on it."
Mr Borghetti said other senior executives had "carried the company through" the period.
FYSTI, and the Chairman at the time, Margaret Bloody Jackson, let Dixon and Gregg get away with this instead of running the company, increasing shareholder value and the takeover price even more!!!!!!!!
Saint effing Margaret Jackson, the bitch who "broke the glass ceiling" and was a model of "the new way" was rammed down my throat at Melbourne Business School every effing term,and probably later years as well....And she turned out to be just a greedy arsehole like the rest of them.