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 . 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 , Chairman of the Open Contents Platform Association in Tokyo . In January 2008 he was a passenger on British Airways Flight 38 that crashed at Heathrow but he escaped unharmed . His father was the late palaeontologist Alan J. Charig
British Airways Flight 38
British Airways Flight 38
Francis Charig