I believe that is not entirely true. Here is the explaination https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22874704
Does that side project belong to you or to your company? If it belonged to you, why would you use office email ID for collaborating on it? and if it belonged to the company, why would you manage it on a personal Trello account?
Sorry to sound harsh, but unless I am missing something, to begin with, looks bad judgement on your part.