CrowdSurge – a web site on which artists might promote pre-sale tickets to followers – was a rival ticketing firm to Ticketmaster, with its headquarters in London and a US workplace in New York. US court docket paperwork say the corporate had an estimated worth of greater than $100m.
From 2010, Mead was CrowdSurge’s senior vp for international operations and basic supervisor for North America.
The BBC has seen court docket paperwork that state that when Mead left CrowdSurge in July 2012 he signed a “separation settlement”, which said he should not retain or share any confidential info – together with shopper lists, and advertising and marketing methods – with any third celebration.
Based on the court docket submitting, the settlement additionally stipulated Mead shouldn’t work for an additional ticketing firm for a yr and, as a part of the association, CrowdSurge paid Mead roughly $52,970.
However he repeatedly breached the separation settlement, the court docket papers say.
By the summer season of 2013, Mead was employed by Ticketmaster’s dad or mum firm, Dwell Nation, in a division referred to as TicketWeb.
CrowdSurge laptop server logs present a minimum of 25 situations when its firm knowledge was accessed by computer systems with IP addresses registered to Ticketmaster and related firms in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, between August 2013 and December 2015, the prosecution said.