Sheri Pate is the worst, most incompetent contractor with whom we have ever done business. Sheri Pate received $7,000 of our money, and quite frankly, if this would just get her out of our lives it would be money well spent. But after we ended our association with her citing gross incompetence and negligence in violation of her fiduciary duty to us, instead of just going away she began to aggressively work with others to steal control of our property.
In a professional business environment this woman is a walking train wreck. Her moods change on a day by day basis from screaming hysterics to cold, harsh threats. In a corporate environment she is extremely paranoid of what she perceives as any threat to her power or to her ideas and concepts.
She utterly and completely lacks the ability to work with other people. She insulted some staff members and mocked others. She lied to staff, she lied to us, and she superseded our orders causing horrible sabotage to our project. In one case as we were about to unveil to the public a project several weeks in development we discovered at the last minute that she had, without our knowledge or permission, canceled all requested work and instead ordered it be done to her specifications. Her work was so bad it was completely unusable. We met our deadlines but only through round-the-clock production work. This is just one small example of her horrible and unprofessional behavior.
Upon first meeting Sheri Pate, she seems to be a dynamo of energy with staggering knowledge of public relations and marketing. But this is entirely illusory. While she can regurgitate massive amounts of technical information she has memorized from college textbooks, she is completely devoid of any ability to apply these practices in a professional business environment.
Sheri Pate is uncontrollable and unmanageable. We could never recommend her to anyone.
Sheri Pate and Kathryn F. Stearns, paralegal, both were brought to us with high recommendations by Frank Whiting. We now know this was part of an ongoing conspiracy by Whiting to steal control of our intellectual property and our company. Frank Whiting used these people to gain access to our business strategies and our property. They now are participating with him in his ongoing efforts, explained elsewhere on this web site, to exploit our assets in an attempt to steal our intellectual property and claim it as his own.
Sheri Pate appears to have promoted Frank Whiting's false claims of either ownership or control of Vonira and its property by participating in an apparently felonious trademark filing by the current operators of Vonira Technologies, Inc. This claim has appeared in investment media such as Bloomberg BusinessWeek and others. This is false and intended to mislead investors. She seems to be listed as the email contact. Jim Shaer is the applicant of record and the application lists the business address of convicted felon Jeff Taylor.
Attachment 6 - False, Misleading and Confusing Trademark Application copying our existing Trademark Yow Now, filed by Jim Shaer using Jeff Taylor's business address, and appearing to list Sheri Pate as the email contact.
Sheri Pate has a very strange relationship with Kathryn F. Stearns and Frank Whiting. Pate, a 40-year-old resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, calls Stearns and Whiting her "mom and dad." While this is not uncommon in the odd quasi-reality of virtual worlds, their close association and partnership in the attempted theft and destruction of our property, coupled with their strange fantasy family association, just seems very disconcerting to us.
Here in her own words is an example of the caliber and bizarre nature of Sheri Pate's actual business work as submitted to Frank Whiting and others in their ongoing attempts to steal our property.
Oct. 13, 2011
From: Sheri Pate
Recipients: Frank Whiting, Jon B. Hanley, Brian Misner, Andrew Meyer, Jim Shaer
Big cheeses, you need to sit down and talk about theming and where you want us to take it. If I hear "@#$%$" anywhere, be assured I will make toilet jokes. Please, I'm begging you, no "@#$%$" anything. People don't hear the "*'s" in that, they hear "@#$%$," and in the United States, that means t-o-i-l-e-t. Excuse my sense of humor, but I still have nightmares about people skiing down the Fecalhorn, so let's get that resolved please.
