"Is this possibly the reason for the mystery surrounding our CEO?"
WDRP's CEO, if he actually exists, is without doubt a patsy for the real controllers of the long-running WDRP criminal conspiracy to defraud.
I suspect that more likely Amyot and Barakett have taken a play out of the SRGE/CRGP playbook and have invented an entirely fictional officer.
It's weird that there's no trace of "Eric Brown" anywhere else on web - job history, no biographical details whatsoever - except, apparently, as ex-CFO of equally obvious penny stock scam UAMM.