What is the Lisk developer's connection to the Elite group? It seems the group started from a few members, but one of them was a delegate called China. This account seems to be partially controlled by Max from what I read and I'm sure he approves actions made by the account.
I just have the passphrase saved somewhere. Luiz sent it to me shortly after the Lisk launch because I sent some bounties there for the Chinese community (for marketing campaigns Luiz created in QQ and other Chinese social media during the ICO) and he wanted to make sure that the money won't be lost in case the passphrase gets deleted (et al) accidentally. Now the account is still being used, I will ask Luiz to add a second passphrase to it which I won't know.
I don't have any connection to the Elite group besides knowing Luiz very well.
In terms of the delegates; we decided to keep an ultimate neutral stance. We want to focus on the technology rather than delegate wars, which I see as a part of the consensus algo. It has in fact this social element in it.