While Neal is good the type of people Alex staffed while at Yahoo are insanely good. I only worked under Alex for a few months before he moved to Yahoo but he can staff very strong teams. For example, he bought out Leaf Security to work for Yahoo.
Oh, absolutely agree. I worked with Neal when he was an intern at Matasano, and yes he is very good.
And I worked with Chris Rolf, who is frighteningly good.
As far as I'm aware this is the first time I've been mentioned in a conspiracy theory. So thanks for that. :-)