Officers
Office of the Chief Executive
The Osage Group, LLC
Chairman Emeritus
Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker
In memoriam · 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.
Officers
H. “Smoke” Dupont
Chief Executive Officer · Chairman of the Board
Operating head of Osage Group; coordinates the four lanes on standing terms.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 — not officers, 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.
Standing Committees
- Audit & Risk. Reviews controls and external auditor scope; whistle-blowing routes to [email protected].
- Compensation & Nominations. Officer compensation and successor planning.
- Heritage & Memorial. Convenes in consultation with a Tinker family delegate.
- Sustainability. Oversees the ESG framework and the Heritage Fund.
- Standing Partnerships. Oversees the standing covenants of the diaspora.
Office of the Chief Executive: [email protected]. Chief of Staff: [email protected]. Governance inquiries: [email protected].