Smith who, once loyal to the company, came to resent Youngevity as the growth of the company brought in more distributors with status equal to his own and income exceeding his. Youngevity claim ‘ all of (Wakaya Perfection’s) promoters … were affiliated with Youngevity as officers, employees or distributors‘.įacilitated, aided, or abetted the violation of Youngevity contractual agreements in an effort to induce Youngevity distributors to breach their contracts with Youngevity and to cause business opportunities meant for Youngevity to be diverted to Wakaya. While a top-level distributor for Youngevity, yet acting as an undisclosed agent for Wakaya, and serving the interests of Wakaya, Smith intentionally converted Youngevity business opportunities through misrepresentation, subterfuge, and deceit. Served as a trusted, top-level distributor in Youngevity, and had ownership interests in entities that distributed Youngevity products. Intentional interference with business relations, inducement of breach of contract, civil conspiracy, breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, breach of fiduciary duty, and misrepresentation. Wakaya Perfection, Todd Smith and Total Nutrition Team are all named defendants in a lawsuit filed by Youngevity.įor at least the past year, the Defendants have conspired and acted in concert to interfere with Youngevity business operations, Youngevity contractual relations, and Youngevity distributor relations in order to convert business opportunities meant for Youngevity to their own competing multi-level marketing startup.įiled on March 23rd, Youngevity’s lawsuit accuses Smith and Wakaya Perfection of Unfortunately for Smith, Wakaya Perfection’s launch has been dogged by controversy. Public promotion of Total Nutrition Team appears to have been abandoned on or around November, 2015, which brings us to the launch of Wakaya Perfection.
Smith’s MLM career began in 1996 when he joined Youngevity under the “Total Nutrition Team” moniker. From the looks of it, Gilmour is providing financial backing and Smith the MLM side of the business. Smith is credited as a ‘ successful entrepreneur and 20-year veteran of direct selling‘. That lead to the formation of Wakaya Perfection late last year, co-founded by Gilmour and Todd Smith. Wakaya Perfection was founded to bring the islands unique healing treasures to the world and to provide Wakaya with the ongoing resources to preserve its pristine environment.
It was purchased by David Gilmour (of Fiji Water fame) in 1973.ĭavid realized that keeping Wakaya pure in perpetuity would require a self sustaining economy that could support the local Fijian residents and curtail any pressure to “urbanize” the island. Wakaya is ‘a 2,200-acre island in the Fiji archipelago’.
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