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Osage Group

Officers

Office of the Chief Executive

The Osage Group, LLC · 1500 South Utica Avenue, Suite 400 · Tulsa, Oklahoma

Chairman Emeritus · In Memoriam

Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker

1887–1942

Wah-Zha-Zhe. First Native American Major General in U.S. Army history; first U.S. Army general officer killed in combat in the Second World War. Lost in the closing hours of the Battle of Midway leading the long-range bombing sortie against Wake Island He had himself planned. The Chairman Emeritus seat is held permanently in His honour and is never refilled. See osage.memorial.

H. “Smoke” Dupont

Chief Executive Officer · Chairman of the Board

Operating head of The Osage Group, LLC. The Office of the CEO coordinates Capital, Tech, Industries, Farm, Foundation, NGO, Institute, and Family on standing terms, and holds the standing record of the Group in trust.

Alan Donohue

General Counsel

Standing General Counsel of The Osage Group. Coordinates legal practice across the group: instrument drafting, signing protocols, partnership and acquisition counsel, regulatory engagement, and the standing observances by which the Office of the CEO conducts itself. Keeper of the standing record on the legal side.

Serhiy Hromov

International Counsel

Partner at Attorneys at Law “Gromov & Gromova” of Kyiv. Holds the standing international-transactions brief — licence coordination, cross-border documentary support, and counsel on the foreign-jurisdiction side of the Group’s outward partnerships. Works alongside the General Counsel on the international face of the standing record.

HRH Cyrus Pahlavi

Chief Investment Officer

Holds the standing investment brief across the diaspora’s capital lane. Principal of Lux Fund and the Cyrus / Pars Foundation. Director representing the standing partnership of 2026 between The Osage Group and the Cyrus / Pars Foundation.

Z. Kelling

Chief Architect & Cryptographer

Holds the standing cryptographic brief — post-quantum posture, on-chain settlement at osage.network, and the applied-research lattice through Osage Institute.

Prof. Amii Omara-Otunnu

Chief Education Officer · UNESCO Chair, University of Connecticut

Standing education brief — Tinker Scholars, Institute Fellows, and the diaspora’s civic-education partnerships. UNESCO Chair in Comparative Human Rights and Professor of History at the University of Connecticut.

Ashlie Christie

Chief of Staff

Holds the standing chief-of-staff brief — convening, cadence, and the documentary discipline of the Office of the Chief Executive.

Officers serve at the pleasure of the Board and operate by consensus on standing matters. The Chief Executive is Chairman of the Board ex officio. Vacancies are filled by invitation.

Advisors

Standing advisors to the Office of the Chief Executive. Advisors are not officers and do not vote on corporate matters; they hold named briefs on specific subject‑matter.

Jack Ma

AI Advisor

Standing advisor on artificial intelligence, long‑horizon platform construction, and cross‑border trade. Founder of the Alibaba Group; advisor (not officer) to the Office of the Chief Executive on the platforms the diaspora builds for the next century.

Standing Committees

Office of the Chief Executive: [email protected] · Chief of Staff: [email protected] · Governance: [email protected].