Life keeps throwing up interesting surprises and this one is the latest. I met this guy on a flight from Dallas 5 months back. He was CFO of a company called SkyGolf, maker of GPS equipment used by professionals on golf courses around the world. In its space, the products produced by this company are the best in class. We start talking and he told me how he built this company from scratch in Mississippi with a couple of his friends. Revenues exceeded 250 million dollars and market valuation was more than a billion dollars. More importantly, they were able to keep all the equity between the partners in a very capital intensive business. Company was an obviously attractive target for firms like Garmin and things could not have been better.
So this person, Mahalingam Shrinivas, gave me his business card and we promised to keep in touch. Interestingly, his business card did not have his email address or the phone number. None the less, I thought he would be a great speaker for the entrepreneurship club at the business school. From that day on, we bumped into each other again once of the airport and another time at a restaurant in LA.
Well, I was flipping through my business cards yesterday and I came across Shrinivas' card and I thought I will try to find his email address on the web. I have been promising myself that I will send an email to him but somehow it never happened. So I start searching for him and then comes the shocker. On January 19th, Shrinivas was arrested by law enforcement agencies for embezzling more than 2 million dollars using his position as CFO of SkyGolf. He is now spending time in Madison County jail waiting for the verdict!!! Maximum sentence could be as much as 15 years.Check out the link: http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080119/NEWS/801190341
I am wondering what is the probability of meeting a crook like this on a flight!!! And no wonder, I don't need his email address anymore. So much for networking in business classes on an airplane..
12 comments:
Dude,
You're quick to judge!...let him atleast be found guilty (I won't be a conspiracy theorist) but he is still innocent till proven guilty :)..lol
hope all's well in that side of the world...
cheers,
Anshu
At last and as expected he was acquitted of all the charges in the Southern District of Mississippi Federal Court on 12/10/10. I knew he was innocent and it is a shame that this was brought to trial. I wish him well for the future and hope he can forget the miserable period he endured in jail FOR SOMETHING HE DID NOT DO.
Justice was served in MIssissippi.
The wheels of Justice move slowly but the TRUTH prevails.
Whoever you are you should be ashamed to judge someone so quickly ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND ALL THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE CHARGES. HOPE THIS NEVER HAPPENS TO YOU ONE DAY.
Posted by Owin O Donnell | Dec 12, 2010 8:40 PM ET
KARMA IS DANGEROUS. IT BITES BACK REAL HARD. BE CAREFUL IN THE FUTURE ABOUT YOUR COMMENTS AND JUDGEMENTS ABOUT SITUATIONS YOU CANNOT EVEWN COMPREHEND.
Check this link out
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20101214/NEWS/101214038/Jury+acquits+businessman+in++2M+fraud+case
I watched the whole trial. His attorney Joseph E Blackwell was execellent. Professional, to the point, and destroyed many of the governments witnesses on cross examination. He was able to convey his message clearly to the jury which played the major part in the final acquittal. It was interesting to watch how certain witnesses entered the court room as "LIONS" and left like "LAMBS" once Mr Blackwell was done with them. Also great credit to the judge for allowing the defense to present its case without too many hurdles.
Where R u now. Still hiding after posting this crap on my freind? Your turn will come too and boy are we going to relish your fall
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/06/5095433/driver-in-fatal-calif-ferrari.html everybody gets thers in the end.
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/06/5095433/driver-in-fatal-calif-ferrari.html everybody gets thers in the end.
And now he's dead!
Mahalingam Shrinivas, 52, of Los Angeles Identified as Driver who Died in Ventura Ferrari Crash
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/tag/mahalingam-shrinivas/
Fuck You Edwin, mrivera and SF chic, you can all kiss my ass!!!
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