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Governance

Standing controls

Standing principles

Osage Group is operated as a standing institution. Governance is documentary, not theatrical: a small board of seasoned directors, a written committee structure, and a separation of operating, financial, and charitable lanes that keeps each house independently auditable. The Chairman Emeritus is in memoriam.

Office of the Chief Executive

The standing officers are the Chief Executive Officer (who is also Chairman of the Board), the Chief Investment Officer, the Chief Cryptographer, the Chief Compliance Officer, the Chief Education Officer, the Chief Strategy Officer, and the Chief of Staff. Officer biographies and mandates are published at /board. Independence and conflict-of-interest policies are reviewed annually by the Audit Committee.

Committees

  • Audit & Risk Committee. Reviews controls, internal audit findings, external auditor scope, whistle-blowing reports. Whistle-blowing routes confidentially to [email protected].
  • Compensation & Nominations. Reviews executive compensation; nominates incoming directors. Compensation philosophy is published with each Form 990 of Osage Foundation.
  • Sustainability & Heritage. Oversees the ESG framework (/sustainability) and the Heritage Fund (heritage-fund). Convenes in consultation with a Tinker-family delegate and (where the work touches the reservation) the Osage Nation’s own institutions.
  • Standing Partnerships. Oversees the standing partnership covenant with the Cyrus / PARS Foundation (MOU, 4 March 2026) and any further covenants. Routes at /partnerships.

Lanes & separation of concerns

The Group is operated in four lanes, kept architecturally separate to preserve the standing of each:

Independence

A standing house must not be captured by any single principal. Osage Group keeps these in writing:

  • No officer or director sponsors a candidate for any standing programme (Tinker Scholars, Heritage Fund, Fellows) from their own household.
  • No vehicle invests in a portfolio company in which an officer or director has an undisclosed economic interest. Disclosures are recorded with the Audit Committee.
  • Procurement is bound by the supplier code of conduct. Indigenous-owned business preference is recorded at award.
  • The Osage Nation is a sovereign tribal government and is not represented by Osage Group; it speaks for itself at osagenation-nsn.gov.

Risk & compliance

Operational risk is held to the standard of a permanent owner. Secrets reside in the Hanzo KMS posture across the operating stack; identity is mediated by Osage ID; no plaintext credentials touch any system that touches Group data. The chain (osage.network) is the source of truth for the public ledger of grants and transfers; the on-chain entry is the receipt of record.

Disclosure cadence

  • Annual. Foundation Form 990, audited financials of the operating companies as filed in their jurisdictions, ESG report, programme outcomes (Tinker Scholars, Heritage Fund, Fellows).
  • Material. Material changes to board, partnerships, or programme structure are announced through /press.
  • Standing. The standing press feed (JSON) is at news.osage.network/v1/releases.

Engagement

Governance inquiries: [email protected]. Audit Committee (confidential): [email protected]. General counsel: [email protected].