SAN FRANCISCO: When a senior executive at virtual private network company ExpressVPN admitted to working on behalf of a foreign intelligence service to hack American machines last week, it stunned employees at his new company, according to interviews and electronic records.
Gericke was named chief technology officer in August, according to an internal email at the time, and remains in the post. When senior company executives during a regular online question-and-answer session last Friday with employees accepted queries about Gericke's deal and then discussed the sale announced days earlier of the company to British-Israeli digital security software provider Kape Technologies PLC, the workforce vented its anger.
Asked about the controversy, ExpressVPN said in a statement that the exchange was part of a regular monthly session between management and employees.