A technology entrepreneur repeatedly nominated for the Brisbane lord mayor’s businessperson of the year award headed a company that may have traded while insolvent, a liquidator says.
The liquidator’s black eye comes as the Queensland government cancels a stalled $15 million cybersecurity contract awarded to entrepreneur Jamie Wilson’s technology outfit Cryptoloc just before last year’s October state election.
The move paint a spotlight on checks done for government tenders — and big trophy awards that businesses can use in their promotions.
Mr Wilson founded Cryptoloc, which offered an online document security storage system, after scrambling in 2010 to find key documents when his father had fatal cancer.
Jamie Wilson appeared in an…
