Julian Crowley
In 1998, Steven Louis Davis was sentenced to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay $1.3 million in restitution for his theft of trade secrets from Gillette. Davis worked for Wright Industries, a company which Gillette had contracted to assist with a new shaving system.
Davis was alleged to have sent confidential designs, which were presumably somewhat more complicated than adding an extra blade, to various competitors of Gillette’s. At least one of these companies actually reported the incident to Gillette so that Davis could be confronted. A close shave? Too close.
