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Trinity men sue over boardroom coup
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 27 January 2009
Two former directors of digital marketing and e-commerce firm Trinity Street are suing the company claiming that they were unlawfully removed as directors of the firm in a “boardroom coup” last month.
David Robson and Andrew Murray acquired Trinity Street, always an interesting music marketing agency, in 2004, and since then have concentrated in particular on developing direct-to-consumer online sales and marketing platforms for artists, labels and media, operating mainly in the music space.
Clients include EMI, Universal, Ministry Of Sound, Global Gathering, NME, Robbie Williams and, outside of the music domain, The Mighty Boosh.
In 2007 they formed an alliance with entertainment business investment firm Ingenious Ventures, and in doing so created a new parent company called Trinity Universal Holdings, which also owned two other e-commerce companies, QED Technology and QED Commerce.
It is from the board of the parent company that Robson and Murray claim they were unlawfully dismissed, a move which also led to them being dismissed as employees of Trinity Street itself.
Their legal action names not only Trinity Universal Holdings as a defendant, but also Ingenious Ventures director Sanjay Wadhwani and Trinity Street’s former Sales Director Danny Oakes, who they claim were behind the boardroom manoeuvres that left them out in the cold.
Commenting on his legal action, Murray told CMU: “Our treatment at the hands of Sanjay Wadhwani and Danny Oakes whereby they have effectively prevented us from running our own business, has been outrageous. We contend that their behaviour is unlawful so we have instructed our legal team to expedite this case to its fullest extent. We want to reassure our many clients, who have been incredibly supportive of us, that we intend to keep fighting to regain control of our company and hope to be working with them again in the very near future”.
The parent company and backers Ingenious are yet to respond.
