The confidentiality agreement he signed years ago now anchors the fight against him
A former chief executive will have to answer trade-secret and contract claims after a federal court refused to throw most of the case out.
Afiniti, Inc., which sells AI tools that route calls in contact centers, sued its former chief executive and a cluster of companies it says he steered after leaving. On July 22, 2026, a federal court in Washington let most of the case move forward.
The founder ran Afiniti from 2005 until November 2021, working for years out of Washington. His time as chief executive ended, the opinion noted, following reports of an alleged sexually abusive relationship with a former employee. On his way out, Afiniti says, he kept company computers holding trade secrets, then built a network of firms in China, the Cayman Islands, Canada and Puerto Rico to sell products that, the company alleges, rely on that material. Many were staffed with former Afiniti employees.
None of that has been tested in court. The ruling decided only who stays in the case and where, not whether anyone did anything wrong.
For HR, the dispute turned on the employment agreement the executive signed in 2016. It barred him from disclosing confidential information, required him to return company property when he left, and blocked him from soliciting Afiniti's staff or customers for two years. The breach-of-contract claim, built entirely on those clauses, survived the motion to dismiss. So did the...
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