More than one person has described Calum Brannan as, to paraphrase, "lacking in integrity" and some of the descriptions I've been given were far less flattering. "He'd sell his Grandmother for the bus fare home, even if it wasn't raining" was another I was given - I'm simply repeating what I was told!
In this context, it's not hard to see why he (apparently) finds it so easy to flit from one funder and company to another. PPLparty became Youmeo and not, as Calum suggested on his About page something he "successfully exited in 2007" - this is simply not true, he transformed PPLparty into Youmeo and took a large amount of investment.
Then according to Calum's About page
In fact, Calum was not the "founder" of Inormas, and according to Companies House, he wasn't even formally made a Director.
This is correct, but only after he'd put his old businesses, including Youmeo, into receivership - you'll notice that Youmeo STILL has pride of place on his website, despite the fact that it is in the hands of the receivers! Not only that, but he was actually still operating it until very recently, hosted on the servers of his most recent employer without their knowledge or consent!
This is correct, but only after he'd put his old businesses, including Youmeo, into receivership - you'll notice that Youmeo STILL has pride of place on his website, despite the fact that it is in the hands of the receivers! Not only that, but he was actually still operating it until very recently, hosted on the servers of his most recent employer without their knowledge or consent!
There's more!
He also had a few other companies hosted on that server without their knowledge - appointment toolkit was one example, but there were others!
Calum and James also used the funding from the Inormas investor to stoke their pipeline for Social Helium, including claiming expenses for trips to see potential clients...... only to take this pipeline with them, when they left Inormas.
The question is this: "If you build a pipeline of business on company time, claiming salary for your work and expenses for the trips and purporting to represent a company, when you have absolutely NO intention of allowing them to benefit from that business - which Section of the Fraud Act covers this? False representation? Fraud by abuse of position? Or is it just plain Theft?
There's more!
It would appear that, as far back as late Summer, Calum and James had hatched a plot to create a pipeline of business, funded by Inormas, that they had absolutely no intention of allowing Inormas' investors to benefit from. In other words, it appears that for up to 3 months before they actually left Inormas, they were already planning to take the business that Inormas had funded and paid for in order to set up their new company, Social Helium! Bear in mind that everything they've done so far has FAILED!
We can reveal the names of these clients, but won't be doing so at the moment.
However, there's MORE!
It would appear that one of their larger and longer-term clients wasn't just aware of this, they were actually complicit in it happening. We have seen emails between Calum Brannan and a senior member of this client which agrees the basis upon which it will happen!!
And there's MORE yet, but that's for another day......
But, referring back to the points made at the start of this post, it's possible to see why some people might be motivated to make disparaging comments about Calum's integrity and trustworthiness, if the information above is even partly true.
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