Tom Young, Computing, Wednesday 27 January 2010 at 15:18:00
Joe Galloway, managing director for CRM Solutions at EDS, lied in court about
origin of degree
EDS's key witness during the firm's �700m court case against BSkyB was shown The witness - Joe Galloway, former Managing Director for CRM Solutions at EDS The judge's ruling said: "That representation was false?it was made Of the five accusations of misrepresentation brought by BSkyB in the case, One of the reasons the accusation was upheld was that Joe Galloway made Galloway gave detailed evidence on how he took plane journeys between the But while questioning Galloway in court, Mark Howard QC managed to obtain Both Galloway and the dog received a letter from the vice-chancellor of ?Mr Galloway / Lulu demonstrated that he/she is prepared and fully equipped Galloway's credibility as a witness was shredded, according to one lawyer who "He gave his evidence [on going to the college] in the same confident, secure Galloway left EDS in December 2000 to form a CRM consultancy, ITIVITI. He was Both Galloway and Lulu were unavailable for comment at the time of writing.
to have bought his degree online ? but still managed to get a worse mark than a
dog.
? was responsible for providing BSkyB with the time period he thought it would
take to install a CRM IT system. The delivery then took much longer than he had
claimed.
dishonestly by
Joe Galloway who knew it to be false."
this was the only one that was upheld by the judge and effectively led to EDS
losing the case.
another representation that was proven false by BSkyB's lawyers ? that he had a
degree from Concordia College in the US Virgin Islands.
islands and attended a college there.
exactly the same degree as Galloway from Concordia College for his dog "Lulu"
with one key difference ? the dog got a higher mark.
Concordia College saying:
to add valuable apprenticeship to our institution?s activities by means of
talented and profoundly investigated subject treatment."
witnessed proceedings.
manner as he gave his evidence about the EDS representations. Make no mistake,
this was a key factor in EDS losing this case," said the lawyer.
later employed by EDSC in the US as an IT consultant but was dismissed from that
role during the course of the trial after the true nature of his degree was
revealed.
Full story at http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2256867/key-eds-witness-bskyb-case
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