What is his link to the area?
I know he has Welsh family so assuming they are from the area?
It does seem he has integrity and compassion going by what you write and I have read elsewhere. We need these credentials in a person given the lack of it in recent years.
On a side note, it seems that one of the people who is going to be involved but unknown presently is someone with a lot of wealth that can blow Morris, Kaplan and Leviens combined worth out of the water. Let's hope it to be true and gets over the line.