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And on the other hand, let's see how the C-suite made out:

  Wymer was appointed chief of the non-profit Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley. Wenig has been on General Motors’ board since 2018 and now runs an AI start-up. Jones remained at eBay until 2020 and now sits on Prudential Financial’s board.

(These were the Chief Communication Officer, CEO, and SVP for Global Operations, respectively)

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> Wymer was appointed chief of the non-profit Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley

Boys and Girls Club of Silicon Valley lists its corporate donors as including Alliance Roofing · Amgen Foundation · Applied Materials · ASML · Comcast · Deloitte · EY · First Tech Federal Credit Union · Fremont Bank Foundation · Groundworks · Microsoft · NetApp · Peninsula Building Materials (PBM) · Project Learn / Panda Cares · Rite Aid Healthy Futures. If you work at or with any of these, flag this reporting to them.

The organization also appears to work with the City of San Jose and the Morgan Hill school district. (An abusive alleged excon running a kids’ charity is absurd to the point of being hilarious. Whoever was supposed to vet him for hiring should also find a new calling.)

I adore our local boys and girls club, our kids are there every weekday and they adore it too. We have donated a little bit of money monthly for almost a decade. I do not love the big money vanity donors but they are what make the place tick.

This is another level… I would be so angry if this clown were running our metro area. I feel obligated to write letters to all of those donors even though we are on the other coast.

> our kids are there every weekday and they adore it too. We have donated a little bit of money monthly for almost a decade

Write to the national organization. Like, this guy is credibly accused of—and has settled claims around—seriously abusive behavior. He should not be around kids.

Simple, one page: I am a donor and a parent who trusts their kids to your organization. I saw this reporting and was shocked.

It may honestly not be on their radars.

> Whoever was supposed to vet him for hiring should also find a new calling.

I don't think people at that level are really "vetted," these days[0].

[0] https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/on-the-run-for-20-yea...

Make 'em famous

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