So the answer is "he did a ton of work for free and without authorization or permission to speak on behalf of the company"?

Come on. I know we worship technologists and hate businesspeople here, but that's not an answer for anybody. Business people provide value and you can find out how much by asking them the right questions. If you don't even know the right questions to ask, then that speaks volumes more about the relative worth of a "business guy" to your latest social-mobile-local-cat-pic-pinning-geofenced network.