I don’t blame a casual observer for mixing up EV US and EV UK, but the charity commission is not a casual observer. More info on our structure can be found here.
FWIW the org chart does not make it clear (to me, admittedly a casual-ish observer) that you do not in fact report to the board of EV UK.
It also seems to me that the structure is that Ben reports to Howie (EV UK CEO) and Zach (EV US CEO) who report to their respective boards. And the charity commission would be likely to care about what Ben does because he’s running CEA, one of the largest EVF projects?
Yeah, in retrospect I regret including that parenthetical. The important piece was that the Charity Commission doesn’t care about memes; me being a UK employee or not isn’t that important, and distracted from the more important bit.
FWIW the org chart does not make it clear (to me, admittedly a casual-ish observer) that you do not in fact report to the board of EV UK.
Yes actually this is quite strange to me. How does accountability work here?
The CEA UK staff are managed by the CEO of CEA, who is legally part of EV US.
Responsibility for the CEA UK staff ultimately falls on the UK Trustees.
However, the UK Trustees have no ability to exercise oversight over the CEO, because he is in the US.
It also seems to me that the structure is that Ben reports to Howie (EV UK CEO) and Zach (EV US CEO) who report to their respective boards. And the charity commission would be likely to care about what Ben does because he’s running CEA, one of the largest EVF projects?
Yeah, in retrospect I regret including that parenthetical. The important piece was that the Charity Commission doesn’t care about memes; me being a UK employee or not isn’t that important, and distracted from the more important bit.