Regarding hiring without consulting the community, there is a reason that companies hire a CEO to make all the decisions, rather than having all stakeholders weigh in on every hire. We are giving Ron room as Executive Director to do his job, and even if he makes mistakes on the way (and he undoubtedly will) I vastly prefer that to decision-by-committee.
You are actively ignoring the spending rules that the board imposed on itself: "The Executive Director has been authorized to spend $10,000 USD in project funds on a rolling basis". Though I suppose you could construe "rolling basis" in order to justify excessive unauthorized expenditures.
It is not really a matter of what *you* prefer; you are one investor, and if the rules for spending are going to be broken the community ought to be informed of it.
Lastly, since Ron was not elected by the community as Executive Director, giving him such free-reign is absurd.
Ron is following the rules we all agreed on, including getting board approval for these major expenditures. If you don't like how Ron is running things, you are free to vote for someone else to run things once we've implemented proof-of-stake voting. Right now the biggest holders of MSC are on the board, so board votes are a pretty good proxy for proof-of-stake voting in the meantime.
You'll be horrified to learn that some on the board have actually bought MORE Mastercoin rather than selling as you have been arguing for so strenuously. This is because, like me, they believe Mastercoin will be successful and are acting accordingly.
Obviously we're further consolidating our evil cabal of power in this ecosystem. No doubt the project is doomed because some major investors bought more at a MUCH higher price than they got initially. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.