I'm sure that this will come as a huge shock to the people who've been paying his salary for the last 6+ months, as they don't seem to get any credit at all for the time and money they spent on him!
Moreover, Youmeo has been in the hands of the Receivers for the last few months, since his Red Brick labs/Youmeo venture, which he operated with James Leavesley, ran out of money and went down the pan!! Which is why the original www.youmeo.com URL doesn't work!!
According to Calum's version of events, on LinkedIn, his employment history looks like this:
Experience
Information Technology and Services industry
September 2009 – Present ( 4 months)
Helping businesses understand the everchanging world of social media and digital marketing.
Internet industry
May 2009 – Present ( 8 months)
A new startup using SAAS to provide low cost, quality diary management and SMS reminder solutions.
Government Relations industry
September 2007 – Present (2 years 4 months)
We were founded in 2004 by the British Chamber of Commerce, the Confederation of British Industry, the Institute of Directors and the Federation of Small Businesses, funded mostly by what is now called the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills.
Privately Held; Internet industry
April 2008 – August 2009 (1 year 5 months)
Youmeo.com was founded by young entrepreneur Calum Brannan in 2008, after being re-branded from PPLparty.com
It is a social networking aggregator. This technology allows its users to manage and update all their social networks from one location.
Youmeo is based from a converted Electric Factory in Coventry and it's team includes people from Bebo, Yahoo, BBC, KPMG, Media Corp and Trutap.
It is a social networking aggregator. This technology allows its users to manage and update all their social networks from one location.
Youmeo is based from a converted Electric Factory in Coventry and it's team includes people from Bebo, Yahoo, BBC, KPMG, Media Corp and Trutap.
Calum has 6 recommendations (2 reports, 1 co-worker, 3 partners) including:
Information Technology and Services industry
September 2008 – June 2009 ( 10 months)
Internet industry
April 2005 – March 2008 (3 years)
PPLparty was created in 2005 for the clubbing community, it was sold into Youmeo.com in early 2008, where a new board and team transformed it into the cutting edge social media aggregator.
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So, there you have it - Calum Brannan has re-written his CV and ex-sponged Inormas from it. This begs an interesting question - if Calum was working on the development of Salon Toolkit for this period of time, why was he asking for a salary from Inormas, when he wasn't actually doing the job they were paying him for........?
Perhaps more importantly, was he fulfilling his duties to clients like Christian Vision during this time? And, even more importantly, what has happened to all the code written for Christian Vision, by his team, whilst he was off developing Salon Toolkit at Inormas's expense....?
We've also heard a rumour, unconfirmed as yet, that there may have been some extremely unsavoury and possibly illegal shenanigans going on between Bob Edmiston, the multi-millionaire chief of IM Group, Founder of Christian Vision and major benefactor to Grace Academies in Coventry and Solihull and the Calum Brannan / James Leavesley duo, now operating as CBJL Ltd.
You'll recall from the earlier blog, entitled
A bit more background about Calum Brannan
That the 4th Charitable objective of Christian Vision is, quote:
Now, we're pretty certain from the information shown to us, that this simply isn't the case where Robert Norman Edmiston's conduct in this matter is concerned...... and, if it's true, there are going to be some pretty heated exchanges on the subject when the Trustees of CV find out about this!!
Not to mention the few words that "Benevolent Uncle Bob" is going to want to have with James and Calum about the mess they've made of things!!
On the other hand, where Calum's concerned, it's not even clear that he knows when he's lying and when he's telling the truth, as we have reports of him doing it without even taking a breath!
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