Ron Black said his unfair dismissal meant Imagination was unable to become a major tech player - David Rose A tech boss who was sacked by a British microchip company for blowing the whistle on a move to China has received a multimillion-dollar payout. Ron Black has received $2m (£1.5m) from Imagination Technologies after an employment tribunal declared he had been unfairly dismissed for whistleblowing. Mr Black was removed as Imagination’s chief executive in 2020 after alerting MPs to an attempted “coup ...