Battle begins to replace board at Live Current Media.
The former CEO of what is now Live Current Media has launched a proxy battle to regain control of the company’s Board of Directors.
David Jeffs was CEO of the company from 2002 to 2007 when he hired Geoffrey Hampson to replace him. According to the proxy solicitation:
In March 2010, Mr. Jeffs received from a shareholder of the Company a news release issued by Corelink Data Centers LLC, a Delaware company that provides data technologies and web-hosting services on the Internet. The news release described Mr. Hampson as the CEO and Corelink’s success in establishing data centers in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Seattle and Chicago. The news release went on to say that, in conjunction with Corelink’s establishment of its new headquarters in Chicago, Mr. Hampson would move to Chicago at the end of March 2010. This news release suggested to Mr. Jeffs that Mr. Hampson was working for another company. He reviewed Corelink’s website and talked to others familiar with the Company to find out what he could about Mr. Hampson’s relationship to Corelink. He discovered that Mr. Hampson formed Corelink in August 2007, fewer than three months after becoming the Company’s CEO, became Corelink’s CEO in November 2007, and had established Corelink’s four data centers in the two and a half years from Corelink’s formation in August 2007 to the date of its news release in February 2010.
The proxy solicitation mentions several other grievances:
– Committed to paying bonuses of $700,000 and an annual salary of $275,000 and other benefits to the president hired to replace Mr. Jeffs on October 1, 2007, who resigned from the Company as of January 31, 2009 after serving only 16 months of his five-year contract
– Hired his common-law spouse—who appears to have a lot of fashion experience but no Internet retail experience—to run Perfume.com
-With the approval of the Current Board, lowered the exercise prices of the options granted to the members of the Current Board and other employees from between $2.00 and $2.50 to 65¢
– Filed unreliable financial statements for the periods ended September 30, 2008, December 31, 2008 and March 31, 2009 and had to file restated financial statements
– In March 2008, acquired an early-stage start-up business for $5 million that had no revenues and was written off the books by the end of 2009 after the Company determined by the end of June 2009 that the auction software acquired through the acquisition was impaired (Auctomatic)
Hampson and the board has already been sued over similar issues.
Roger says
It’s about time. How much longer will the share holders stand by & see Geoff Hampson rape the til, change the rules & ignore LIVC to further his own interests in Corelink, the company he’s been working on since 2007.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!!!