Neville Roy Hingham was an American businessman and social activist. He is best known for founding “Thoughtworks”, an IT business that provided computer consulting services. In 2017, he sold the property for $785 million. In November 2023, the Enforcement Directorate of India summoned him in a money laundering case related to the Indian news channel “NewsClick” and was accused of spreading Chinese propaganda in India and other Indian countries. world.
Wiki/Biography
Neville Roy Singham was born on Thursday, May 13, 1954, in United States (age 69; as of 2023). His zodiac sign is Taurus. After completing his schooling, he studied for a bachelor’s degree in political science at Howard University in the United States. He later continued his education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 9″
Hair color: Bald
Eye color: brown
family
Parents and siblings
Singham’s father, Archibald Singham, was a political scientist and historian from Sri Lanka who taught political science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He died in 1991.
Photo of Archibald Hingham, father of Neville Roy Hingham
His mother, Shirley Hune, is Cuban. He has a sister named Shanti Singham.
wife and children
In 2017, Neville Roy Singham married Jodie Evans, a political activist, author and film producer. Several notable figures, including Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman; Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream; and playwright V (née Eve Ensler) attended their wedding.
Neville Roy Singham with his wife
The couple has a son named Nathan (Nate) Hingham, who works at the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research.
Photos by Nathan Singham
Profession
As a young man, Neville Roy Hingham joined an organization called the Revolutionary Negro Workers’ Union. This group believes in being proud to be black and follows Maoist ideology. At the same time, he was working at the Chrysler plant in Detroit in 1972. After that, he entered Howard University and went to Chicago after graduation. He founded the company “Thoughtworks” in the late 1980s and incorporated it in 1991. His company helps clients rent computer equipment and also specializes in computer consulting and custom software development. He is the owner of the largest stake in the company. At the same time, he also served as Huawei’s strategic technology consultant from 2001 to 2008. In 2008, “Thoughtworks” had 1,000 employees and provided assistance to major companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, and banks. In 2010, it began working with Daimler AG, Siemens and Barclays Bank. At the same time, it also opened a new office in Bangalore, India.
Neville Roy Singham meets Sitharaman in Bengaluru
In 2010, Neville Roy Singham sold Thoughtworks to a private equity firm for $785 million. When he sold the company, it had 4,500 employees in 15 countries. As the company’s chief scientist Martin Fowler mentioned in a media conversation, Singham had not actively managed the company for several years before selling it. Fowler said Roy was involved in his activism because he built a management team capable of running the company without Roy. Fowler said,
While I was surprised to hear that he was selling the company, the news was not unexpected. Over the past few years, Roy has become increasingly involved in his activist work, spending little time running ThoughtWorks. … He was able to do that because he built a management team that could essentially run the company without him. But as I watched him spend more energy on activist work, it became clear that he would use the funds from the sale of ThoughtWorks to accelerate that activism. “
“Thoughtworks” company logo
Neville Roy Singham is a distinguished leader at Thoughtworks, known for his ability to create software quickly and efficiently. He is a proponent of lean manufacturing methods, similar to Toyota’s business model. Singham was a firm believer in the open access and creative commons movements, and he disliked the idea of keeping software ideas secret. He believes everyone should have free access to the best software ideas. In 2008, he told a media conference that his goal was to solve the world’s problems by developing technologically advanced infrastructure. He said,
As a socialist, I believe the world should have free access to the best ideas in software. My goal is to build technologically advanced infrastructure to solve the world’s problems. “
Neville Roy Singham during a business meeting
In an interview with the media, Singham once said that he admired former Venezuelan President Chavez and believed that China is a model of state governance. He believes that China is a place with both free market adjustment and long-term planning. Singham is known as a Maoist admirer, with some describing him as “a Marxist who owns a big software company!”
Neville Roy Singham interviewed by the media
In 2022, Singham tried to launch a campaign in the United States to promote peace in Ukraine and oppose NATO’s eastward expansion. In 2023, he began to invest in Chinese companies in the food and consulting industries. In the same year, he also started business in Shanghai and worked for Maku Group. The group’s purpose is to educate foreigners about China’s victory, and Singham reportedly provided them with $1.8 million in funding. In July 2023, Singham participated in a seminar organized by the Communist Party to promote the Chinese Communist Party internationally.
Neville Roy Singham and Chinese Communist Party Activists
dispute
“Singham’s funding dispute”
In 2021, Singham was accused by the New York Times of supporting pro-Chinese government messages by funding certain causes and groups in the United States. Later that year, the Enforcement Directorate of India also charged Singham with involvement in a money laundering case. The allegation is that he supplied Rs. Between 2018 and 2021, US$380 million (approximately US$5 million) was provided to the Indian news website “People’s Express”, which was allegedly used to promote pro-China views in Indian media. The funds were said to have passed through a number of companies and NGOs, including some in the United States such as Universal Media Holdings (believed to be owned by Singham), the Justice and Education Fund, GSPAN LLC and the Tricontinental Institute. Similar concerns were raised at the Medias People’s Center in Brazil. In August 2023, the New York Times published another article accusing Singham of having close ties with the Chinese government. The article stated that he used non-profit organizations and shell companies to donate to various organizations, including news media and entities, with the intention of spreading information in support of the Chinese government. Some of these nonprofits include the Justice and Education Fund, the United Communities Fund, and the People’s Support Foundation. Groups supported by Singham include NewsClick, Nkrumah School in India, the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party in South Africa, Brasil de Fato newspaper in Brazil, and No Cold War, Code Pink, People’s Forum” and activist groups such as “Three Continents”. Singham has denied the allegations and said he does not work for any political party or government. However, after The New York Times published the article, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio has asked the Department of Justice to investigate entities related to Singham for possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Photos of Xi Jinping, Prabir Purkayastha (owner of NewsClick) and Neville Roy Singham
net worth
In 2023, his net worth was approximately $785 million.
Facts/Trivia
- Singham is a supporter of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. He, along with activist Peter Thiel and former US political activist and economist Daniel Ellsberg, publicly defended Assange at an event in 2011. Singham also expressed support for hackers such as Jeremy Hammond and Aaron Swartz. Swartz, who worked for Singham, took his own life in 2013 while facing legal troubles.
- In 2013, Neville Roy Singham emphasized the importance of efficiency at a business conference and said that his company, Thoughtworks, had invested in many projects in India, Brazil and China to promote this concept.
Neville Roy Singham during a business meeting
- In January 2022, a report in New Lines magazine revealed that Singham had donated nearly $65 million to nonprofit organizations, including Code Pink.
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