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Market is not "down on financial companies". Many financial industry stocks are at or near al time highs.
The BOD has little to do with "running the company". I think you may be confused as to the function of a company's Board of Directors. Regardless, Brocade's business operations results, in recent years, have been consistently solid, even impressive.