The four independent board members of Wisetech Global have stopped protesting the founder Richard White's continuous involvement with the company in the midst of continuous revelations about his explosive marriage.
The chairman of the $ 41 billion software giant, Richard Dammery, and three independent directors – Lisa Brock, Michael Malone and Fiona Pak -Poy – will all leave the company this week.
Their departure sent the company's share price on Monday and follows months of harmful revelations about Mr White, his series of controversial novels and accusations of his inappropriate, sexual manipulative interactions with women.
It comes after the billionaire had reached the headlines last year after revelations, he had bought a $ 7 million mansion for his former partner of seven years, Christine Kontos, while in 2019 he had accused the Wisetech director Christine Holman of bullying and intimidation.
Although he resigned as Chief Executive of the company that he co -founded last October, there were growing concern about his continuous advisory role and continuous influence – and 38.7 percent who checked the importance of the outfit.
In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange on Monday, the global logistics software outfit said that the board members had established that it is in the best interest of the company to stand aside. “
Billionaire Richard White and wife Zena Nasser (shown together)
Mr White and Mrs. Nasser made the decision last July
“This followed on stubborn differences in the board and various views on the role of the founder and founder CEO, Richard White,” said the notification.
It said that all four would leave the company after signing the half -yearly financial report and the release of half -yearly results to ASX on Wednesday. '
Former Wisetech director Mike Gregg will immediately join the board, alongside co-founder Maree Isaacs and Charles Gibbon, to ensure that it retains enough members to be publicly mentioned during the search for extra replacements.
Wisetech investors saw the announcement to discharge shares – where the share fell from more than $ 120 per share to just $ 92.67 against lunch, although it turned out since then that he was in the afternoon.
Mr. White has been chased by scandal, with revelations, both he and his wife Zena Nasser are sued by former employee Caroline Heidemann after she has submitted an explosive lawsuit to the federal court this month.
According to the documents, Mrs. Heidemann claimed that Mr White exploited her by provide her With constant financial support in exchange or sexual favors.
Mr. White resigned as Chief Executive of the company that he prepared last October after months of harmful headlines
She claimed that Mr White initially “cultivated a personal relationship with her” while she was employed by Wisetech for 15 months by presenting herself as a mentor and benefactor. “
When Mrs. Heidemann was made superfluous during the Coronavirus Pandemie, he would ensure that she was hired by his private company, Real Management.
While the Brazilian subject did not receive wages, Mr White reportedly rented an apartment or her in Sydney's Inner South, she paid for her to take English lessons and offer her constant financial support.
Mrs. Heidemann claimed in the court documents that Mr White created an environment of 'economic dependence' by sponsoring her for a temporary visa as a 'business consultant' – so that she redesigned herself to work or him – so that he could have 'illegal behavior for sexual satisfaction '.
Caroline Heidemann claims that Mr White manipulated her in a situation in which he gave her financial support in exchange for sexual favors – he strongly denies the statement
She claimed that Mr White made it clear that financial assistance was dependent on …[her] Entering a personal and sexual relationship with him.
Mrs. Heidemann also claimed that he was subject Her to 'humiliate treatment' by trading her financial security and immigration status or 'compliance with his personal and sexual demands'.
Mr. White has strongly denied the accused and said that he “intends to strongly defend all accusations.”
“At no time, Mrs. Heidemann was an employment contract with Realfewen, nor was she once paid a salary,” he said in a statement to the Australian Financial Review.
“She did not do formal or informal work for MR White of Real at any stage.”
He admitted that he had given Mrs. Heidemann private financial support, but only because they had taken care of 'a consensual personal relationship'.
Although Romantiek ended the middle of the last year, sources told the Australian Financial Review that he continued to help with the financing of her lifestyle and had provided more than $ 500,000 to financial support since the start of their relationship .
Mrs. Heidemann also sues Mrs. Nasser, who reportedly threatened to have deported her after hearing her husband's secret arrangement last year.
Mrs. Nasser (photo) has since been accused of threatening to have deported one of her husband's former lovers. Mr. White said that he is planning to combat the allegations.
According to Mrs. Heidemann's claim, Mrs. Nasser sent her 'hostile and threatening reports' who demanded that she stopped 'demanding financial support' from her husband and Australia or that she would report her 'sham visa' to immigration authorities.
Two other women also came to the Wisetech Board with individual complaints through their lawyers about the alleged inappropriate behavior of the billionaire.
The scandal surrounding Mr White broke out last year after he had granted the former lover Linda Rogan opposite a furniture account of $ 92,000.
Mrs. Rogan, who owns a laser clinic in Double Bay in the eastern outskirts of Sydney, claimed that she initially met Mr White through his wife – only for him Offer to invest in her company in exchange for sex.
Later she launched a federal court struggle for a $ 13.1 million mansion that she claimed that Mr White had bought her in the most prestigious suburbs of Sydney to live with her three children.
Mrs. Rogan, who never moved to the house, claimed that the technical billionaire took the keys back after his wife discovered that they had a sexual relationship.
In 2023 she successfully sought a local judicial order that Mr White reimburses her for $ 92,123 that she would have spent on setting up the Vaucluse -Huishuis.
Revelations about their relationship found their way to the public domain when he had destroyed the order last August.
Linda Rogan claims that Mr. White bought her a mansion in the eastern suburbs of Sydney before he had himself again at the deal after his wife discovered that they were in a sexual relationship
Mrs. Rogan claimed that she had already spent $ 90,000 by that time
The one -time lovers In the end, an extrajudicial arrangement only reached, but By that time, all lusty details for their romance were uncovered.
Mrs. Rogan, who owns laser clinics in Sydney, Cairns and New Zealand, claimed that she met Mr White after his wife had reached social media on social media about two and a half years ago.
Mrs. Nasser is said to have sent Mrs. Rogan an Instagram message in June 2022 stating: 'We have a number of mutual friends and you came on my page … I never do this, but I had something like: “I have to do this stunning lady Send a message x “. '
A month later Mrs. Nasser visited her Rose Bay Clinic Bionik Wellness and introduced her to Mr White during Facetime.
In judicial documents, Mrs. Rogan said, said that her relationship with Mr. White soon became sexual and he offered to buy a Vaucluse for her.
Mr. White is said to have told Mrs. Rogan: 'The structure will ensure that no one will return the property to me or you will trace. Zena will never know that I have this house. You will live in this house forever. '
Mrs. Rogan claimed that the deal fell unexpectedly the next month when she prepared to move to the country house when she reportedly received a message from Mrs. Nasser.
“You didn't have to lie,” said Nasser. “Richard admitted … please don't get close to me anymore.”
