CERBERUS role in Andromeda Initiative

Alec Ryder is TIM's cousin... very anti-Cerberus and spent his life trying to live down the family connection to the organization.  TIM wants to just get Alec out of his life, so packing him off to Andromeda is motivation enough for him to fork over the chump change it takes to fund the mission secretly.  Once the mission takes off... that's the end of TIM's involvement in it as he waves good riddance to his pesky cousin and focuses on getting Shepard revived and onboard to "deal with" the Reapers.  (kidding of course)

In-game and story-wise, it would make sense for Cerberus to be there as I assume they would have an interest in the project. But I hope Bioware has decided to leave it behind for Andromeda, as I got really sick of it by the end of ME3.

There was a rumor in the now-defunct BioWare forums that Cerberus was in fact involved (something about a Cerberus symbol on a Kodiak in some test footage or something - could have just been a placeholder). I remember posting that BioWare would have to be incredibly stupid to risk it - but the human-centric rhetoric surrounding MEA has me concerned.

Though most of his experiments failed, I don't think that failure is possible in TIM's mind, so I doubt that he would have a back-up plan. BTW: he had no plan A in the first place, trying to hinder the construction of the crucible everywhere he could and then needing exactly that crucible in the end for his goal of controlling the Reapers. Just some megalomaniac old man, not a mastermind.

Cerberus has no involvement in and will have no involvement in the Andromeda Initiative.

Seriously people, just because they're both privately funded enterprises doesn't mean Cerberus is lurking behind every shadow. Cerberus doesn't have its hand in every human project.

Ai being and entirely Cerberus project? Probably not.
But if whether some Cerberus people will partake in it? I will go with maybe yes. Maybe TIM knew and decide to send a team to enlist and 'preserve' the Cerberus 'ideals' and agenda and spread it to another Galaxy .That doesn't seem very far fetched.
I know BW said they won't be there, but they could still have them in but not as an important part of the story.

No Cerberus, seriously.... goddammit, no. NO.

If theres cerberus in this game....

why would Mac Walters spoil anything about MEA? keep in mind that developers have the right to use mis-direction if they need too.

It was the same with I.T. Even faced with hard evidence some people still refused to let their dogmatic believe go away.

Hopefully it won't have any role in the story at all.

Cerberus wore out it's welcome in the Shepard trilogy, where it was a bit of a writer's pet.

Do I want them, no, not really. But it would make sense for at least a few humans with ties to Cerberus be mixed in. That being said, our player character would unlikely be aware of Cerberus as we've all grown to love (not). If Bio wanted to have some small and non-intrusive side story/quest where we "learn" a bit about them, it really wouldn't bother me. One idea I had a while back when I first learned about the AI was to have a side arc dealing with classism and the few Cerberus agents that came become a voice for the disenfranchised humans, then eventually lower-classed aliens as well (wouldn't that be ironic). But it doesn't work given the entire trip takes place in cryo.  Not to mention Bio doesn't like to deal with complex issues that interferes with the big bad uber-powerful antagonist bent on world domination and destruction.