Well, Breeze, this certainly makes a lot of sense to me. 

2) Since there is 0% chance that all of those insiders needed monney at the SAME TIME, it looks like a corporate decision to free up some options for the newly hired talents ( or to expand the stock options available to attrack some of the in the very near future).  The number of options available is restricted to a certain number and, in the very short term, the only way to free up some options to give to the newly hired staff is by exercising some by the management. 

I have all the respect in the world for present-day management and the leaders of POET and have said it many times. That's not to say that there is anything wrong with people asking questions about anything they don't understand. If that were the case what would be the reason for anyone to be here on this board??? T