Just because you leave a company doesn’t necessarily mean your past employers have triple-locked the doors and tossed away the keys. After all, businesses often benefit when talented former employees return.

I don’t think when I left Wacom 2 years ago it was a mistake – at that time I had done all that I could achieve in the position I was in. We’d had a great time at Wacom, and we were truly pioneers in setting up the new components division and after we went IPO it was time for a change.

Looking back at my time at Invu I have learnt that even though you think you know people, and can trust them, some people have hidden agenda’s unbeknown to anyone else in the organization and they will tread on and manipulate anyone that comes across their path, whilst they are trying to achieve their own nefarious personal ends. The morale of the story is be very careful who you trust whilst keeping your friends close and your enemies closer.

I think one of the only silver linings to the whole murky cloud of flakey document management software was meeting Martyn who is absolutely one of the best software developers and technologists I’ve met in my long career in the PC and cell phone industries.

As I took a step back from Shumbi, now that I have re-entered the Wacom fold, I am rest assured to leave the reigns firmly in the safekeeping of Martyn’s hands.

Finally I would like to leave with a parting thought.

“Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.” ~J.C. Watts

Justin Staines
Non-Exec Director