Francis Charig
Francis Charig (born 23 November 1960 in Hurst Green, Oxted, England) is the British Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BetWiz Sports and is also a board director of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon plc, a Japan-focussed investment trust.[1] He was educated at Whitgift School in Croydon and subsequently at the University of Exeter where he read Political Science. He was Head of the Trading Systems Business Unit at the London Stock Exchange, co-founder, Chairman & CEO of Tao Group, CEO of Antix Labs,[2] Chairman of the Open Contents Platform Association in Tokyo.[3] In January 2008 he was a passenger on British Airways Flight 38 that crashed at Heathrow but he escaped unharmed.[4] His father was the late palaeontologist Alan J. Charig.[5]
References
- ↑ http://www.bailliegifford.com/individual-investor/fund-selector/baillie-gifford-shin-nippon/directors.aspx Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon PLC Board Profile
- ↑ "Khronos Presentation Speaker Biographies - Francis Charig". khronos.org.
- ↑ http://staging.embedded.com/electronics-news/4155336/UK-executive-becomes-chairman-of-OCPA
- ↑ Francis Charig (8 February 2008). "My escape from BA038 was damn fun". Telegraph.co.uk.
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/28/world/alan-j-charig-70-pursuer-of-dinosaurs-dies.html
External links
- Business Week Profile
- The World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers 2006
- Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon PLC Board Profile
- Announcement of the launch of Antix supported by the Duke of York
- New York Times Obituary of Alan Charig
- Charig, Francis (8 February 2008). "My escape from BA038 was damn fun". The Daily Telegraph. London.
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