Personally, I don't care about the name of the owner. I don't know who owns half (well, really, most of) the forum sites I use, and it suits me fine since my real interaction with them involves the moderators and users. Of course, I am pretty certain I could easily discover who owns or runs most of them quite easily should I try.
I suppose my real point here is that knowing a person's name does not really tell me much about whether I would want to associate with them without additional research which I am not likely to do -- for better or worse.
In the case of AO, I'm quite happy with the way things are, and I'm not going anywhere unless the mods seriously piss me off. Which hasn't happened, and doesn't seem likely to.
I'm not overly interested in the person running the place provided the course remains to provide us shelter, help, support, comradery, and doesn't become some dodgy front for devilish sites like Megaupload or other politically unsavory place. (joke attached there.) Though I might be wont to set the fella up with a round should we encounter in a pub.
Cheers.
