He was merely stating how nice it would be for the department to have an industry voice involved in the search. Of course it can be hard to find high-quality pe

He was merely stating how nice it would be for the department to have an industry voice involved in the search. Of course it can be hard to find high-quality people in industry who are willing to volunteer their time to the university in order to sit on some boring committee. So we was merely making a charitable offer to take on the burden. ;-)