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cantsleepawink ago

Okay, I'm having a quick browse through the Board of Trustees at the British Asian Trust https://www.britishasiantrust.org/who-we-are/trustees

Perhaps a trail of connections tell a story.

So, I'll start with Chris Mathias https://www.crunchbase.com/person/chris-mathias#/entity

Chris Mathias is one of England's most successful Internet entrepreneurs and private equity investors, born and raised in India but now living in the UK. Chris serves on several boards including the advisory board of Barclays Private Wealth Management and is member of the Global Philanthropists Circle. Chris has invested in more than 30 companies either personally or via his two venture capital co

He does some of his philanthropy through the Hummingbird Trust http://thehummingbirdtrust.co.uk/about-the-trust/meet-the-trustees

Here is one initiative http://thehummingbirdtrust.co.uk/the-hummingbird-foundation-2-3/our-programmes

The Hummingbird Raise model is an action research programme that seeks to develop a scalable model for engaging men on prevention of sex trafficking in India, specifically in West Bengal. The programme primarily focuses on men in the age group of 14-17 years from low-income communities and engages them in a series of gradual structured interventions.

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Back to the businesses of Chris Mathias: http://www.arborventures.co.uk/?page_id=7

Arbor is based in Covent Garden, London. It was founded by Chris Mathias in 2000 after nearly a decade of intense organisation building. During that period, Chris founded several other companies, most notably his flagship Conduit Communications, an IT consultancy and service-provider.

Conduit was merged with NASDAQ listed I-cube which was subsequently merged with Razorfish Inc. (another NASDAQ listed internet consultancy)

I-Cube https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/i-cube#/entity One of the co-founders is Professor John Donovan

ACADEMIC: At MIT John Donovan, served as a tenured professor of electrical engineering , of management at the Sloan school and presently affiliated with the Economics Department, At Tufts Medical School he served as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics , at Yale University a Fellow, at Harvard University a Visiting Scholar, lecturer at Oxford, Cambridge,Sorbonne- Paris, a Professor at Texas Tech , He has taught 5,500 students and supervised 54 theses .

RESEARCH: His research focus at MIT is on entrepreneurship, technology and Business At Tufts he first focused on causes of birth defects.and a founder of the Birth Defects center. Professor Donovan has, to date , Authored: 20 books, translated into 14 languages, 84 publications, and 15 patents.

PUBLIC SERVICE: He received commendations from the Red Cross for: research on birth defects, blood safety , work with children. He and his son, John, have created recreational parks in Mass,. . established scholarships at Yale University for the children of city workers and “Donovan Scholars” fellowships at Boston University.

Prof. Donovan's patents : https://professordonovan.com/publications/patents

includes stuff like:

  • “Method, system and apparatus for discovering user agent DNS settings”

  • “A VIDEO SURVEILLANCE, STORAGE, AND ALERTING SYSTEM HAVING NETWORK MANAGEMENT, HIERARCHICAL DATA STORAGE, VIDEO TIP PROCESSING, AND VEHICLE PLATE ANALYSIS.”

  • “Video data storage, search, and retrieval using meta-data and attribute data in a video surveillance system.”

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Interesting.