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Governing Structure

Overview

The governance of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings is structured in the following manner:

Leadership and Management

The Alvan Ikoku Holdings and its parent company, The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC, are duly formed company entities that

Solely Led, Managed, Owned
are wholly led, managed and owned by their sole Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku.
Sole Manager, President, CEO
have the Founder serving as their sole Manager, Officer, Owner, President, and CEO.
Sole Powers, Rights
have the Founder as the sole person with executive, decision-making, fiduciary, managerial, ownership and voting powers, rights, and equivalent, especially those pertaining to The Alvan Ikoku Holdings’s and The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC’s formation, governance, and overall administration.

Ownership and Membership

The Alvan Ikoku HoldingsĀ and its parent company, The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC, have

Sole Member, Owner
the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, as their sole Member and complete Owner, of the division and company, their assets and properties, their divisions, series, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their products and services.
Sole Interests-Holder
the Founder as their sole interests-holder, shareholder, stockholder, or equivalent.
No Other Member, Owner
no other person, legal or natural, as their member, owner, or equivalent.

Partnerships and Affiliations

Announcements of any affiliations, partnerships, sponsorships, and equivalent with The Alvan Ikoku Holdings will be provided upon agreements executed by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, solely via this Founder’s express written instrument signed and sealed.

Public Records and Standing

The Alvan Ikoku Holdings is a private and nonpublic division of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC, itself a private and nonpublic company, with minimal disclosure requirements. Appropriately limited public record confirmation of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings’s formation, governance, and status is available via minimally required disclosure of filing with the appropriate government entities, namely:

Delaware Division of Corporations
at the State Delaware Division of Corporations, accessible via this link, and typing under Entity Name: ā€œThe Alvan Ikoku Group LLC – The Alvan Ikoku Holdings.ā€
Interface, December 2019 (Iwona Castiello D'Antonio)

Governing Nature

Provision

The governance of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings is, as follows, in character, essence, and nature:

Confidential in Nature

The Alvan Ikoku Holdings is formed to be and remain confidential and thus:

Confidential Existence
exists as a confidential company division entity.
Confidential Governance
is an entity of confidential administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Non-Confidentially
with no aspects of its administration, including governance, executed in any way non-confidentially — including via disclosure, exposure, investigation, publicity, regulation, transparency, vetting, or equivalent.
Organizational Confidentiality
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational confidentiality of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.

Independent in Nature

The Alvan Ikoku Holdings is formed to be and remain independent and thus:

Independent Existence
exists as an independent company division entity.
Independent Governance
is an entity of independent administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Non-Independently
with no aspects of its administration, including governance, executed in any way non-independently — including by any other entity, office, or person, or via bureaucracy, collectivism, conservatorship, custodianship, regulation, sponsorship, supervision, takeover, or equivalent.
Organizational Independence
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational independence of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.

Intact in Nature

The Alvan Ikoku Holdings is formed to be and remain internally intact and thus:

Intact Existence
exists as an internally intact company division entity.
Internally Intact Governance
is an entity of internally intact administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Non-Internally Intact
with no aspects of its administration, including governance, executed in any way that is not internally intact — including via unauthorized access or during efforts at communication, connection, exchange, networking, provisioning, sharing, testing, or equivalent.
Organizational Integrity
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational integrity of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.

Private in Nature

The Alvan Ikoku Holdings is formed to be and remain private and thus:

Private Existence
exists as a nonpublic and private company division entity.
Private Governance
is an entity of private administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Publicly
with no aspects of its administration, including governance, executed in any way publicly — including via access, exposure, or transparency or via attempts at control, decision-making, or ownership that are collectivist, communal, cooperative, governmental, socialist or equivalent in nature.
Organizational Privacy
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational privacy of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.

Safe and Secure in Nature

The Alvan Ikoku Holdings is formed to be and remain safe and secure and thus:

Safe, Secure Existence
exists as a safe and secure company division entity.
Safe, Secure Governance
is an entity of safe and secure administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Insecurely, Unsafely
with no aspects of its administration, including governance, executed in any way insecurely or unsafely — including via accident, attack, disruption, hinderance, interception, interference, intrusion, trespass, or equivalent.
Organizational Safety, Security
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational safety and security of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.

Single and Unified in Nature

The Alvan Ikoku Holdings is formed to be and remain single, central and unified and thus:

Single, Central, Unified Existence
exists as a single, central and unified company division entity.
Single, Central, Unified Governance
is an entity of single, central and unified administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Decentrally, Plurally
with no aspects of its administration, including governance, executed in any way decentrally or plurally — including via decentralization, duplication, federation, franchise, license, multiplication, pluralism, plurality, pluralization, redundancy, or equivalent.
Organizational Unity
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational unity of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.

Sole Administration and Management

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Sole Administration, Management Powers
any and all administration and management powers with respect to The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, including powers of control, development, finance, governance, operation, oversight, regulation, supervision, and equivalent of and over The Alvan Ikoku Holdings.
Entailing Fiduciary
and including, especially, any and all fiduciary powers in any way pertaining to The Alvan Ikoku Holdings.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all administration and management powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Administration, Management
with such administration and management proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such administration and management not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole administrator and manager and sole manner of administration and management, and with such administration and management also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Authorizer and Authorization

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Sole Authorization, Executive Powers
any and all authorization and executive powers with respect to The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, including powers to authorize The Alvan Ikoku Holdings to engage in, enter into, expend for, or otherwise execute any acts, activities, agents, arrangements, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all authorization and executive powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all authorization and executive powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Authorization
with such authorization proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such authorization not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole authorizer and executive and sole manner of authorization, and with such authorization also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Books- and Records-Keeping

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Sole Books, Records Powers
any and all books- and records-making and keeping powers with respect to The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, including powers to have The Alvan Ikoku Holdings add, correct, create, disclose, edit, hold, officialize, redact, reproduce, revise, safeguard, seal, sign, stamp, update, and otherwise maintain any accounts, agreements, books, communications, contracts, correspondence, documents, dossiers, files, forms, ledgers, instruments, minutes, notifications, notices, proceedings, records, reports, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all books- and records-making and keeping powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all books- and records-making and keeping powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Books, Records
with such books- and records-making and keeping proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such books- and records-making and keeping not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole books- and records-maker and keeper and sole manner of books- and records-making and keeping, and with such books- and records-making and keeping also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Decision-Making and Voting

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Sole Deciding, Voting Powers
any and all decision-making and voting powers with respect to The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, including powers to have The Alvan Ikoku Holdings make and execute any decisions, votes, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all decision-making and voting powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all decision-making and voting powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Deciding, Voting
with such decision-making and voting proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such decision-making and voting not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole decision-maker and voter and sole manner of decision-making and voting, and with such decision-making and voting also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Employment and Appointment

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Employment, Appointment Powers
any and all employment and appointment powers with respect to The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, including powers to have The Alvan Ikoku Holdings apprentice, assign, contract, elect, hire, outsource, or otherwise engage any agents, entities, offices, parties, persons, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all employment and appointment powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of The Alvan Ikoku Group.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all employment and appointment powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Employment, Appointment
with such employment and appointment proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such employment and appointment not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole employer and appointer and sole manner of employment and appointment, and with such employment and appointment also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Finances and Funding

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Financial and Funding Powers
any and all financial and funding powers with respect to The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, including powers to have The Alvan Ikoku Holdings engage in, enter into, expend for, or otherwise execute any financial acts, activities, arrangements, or equivalent, including those relating to accounts, bonds, budgets, debts, disbursements, distributions, fees, fines, grants, investments, liens, loans, payments, purchases, sales, scholarships, taxes, transactions, wages, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all financial and funding powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of The Alvan Ikoku Group.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all financial and funding powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Finances, Funding
with such finances and funding proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such finances and funding not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole finance officer and funder and sole manner of finance and funding, and with such finances and funding also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Policies- and Rules-Making

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Policies- and Rules-Making Powers
any and all policies- and rules-making and compliance powers with respect to The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, including powers to have The Alvan Ikoku Holdings adopt, alter, amend, apply, enforce, interpret, remedy, revise, substitute, or otherwise ensure adherence to any code, guideline, law, policy, recommendation, regulation, rule, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all policies- and rules-making and compliance powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of The Alvan Ikoku Group.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all policies- and rules-making and compliance powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Policies-, Rules-Making
with such policies- and rules-making and compliance proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such policies- and rules-making and compliance not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole policies- and rules-maker and compliance adjudicator and sole manner of policies- and rules-making and compliance, and with such policies- and rules-making and compliance also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Powers of Determination

As such, the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the sole person with the authority and powers to adjudicate and determine — without appeal or liability — whether a given act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent is:

Compatible or Not
compatible or incompatible with The Alvan Ikoku Holdings itself, as well as its founding, governance, and overall administration, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably compatible.
Compliant or Not
complaint or non-compliant with the Codes and Policies of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, as well as applicable law and regulation, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably compliant, law-abiding and policy-abiding.
Confidential, Private or Not
in accordance with or infringing the policies, principles, and protections for confidentiality and privacy, as provided for in the Codes and Policies, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably confidential and private.
Consented or Not
in accordance with or infringing the policies, principles, and protections for consent, as provided for in the Codes and Policies, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably consented.
Ethical or Not
in accordance with or infringing the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably ethical.
Faith-Aligned or Not
in alignment or non-alignment with the faith-based commitments of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably faith-aligned.
Mission-Aligned or Not
in alignment or non-alignment with the mission and purposes of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably mission-aligned.
Protective, Safe, Secure or Not
in accordance with or infringing the policies, principles, and protections for independence, integrity, safety, and security, as provided for in the Codes and Policies, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably protective, safe and secure.

with No Removal or Reduction

And furthermore, there is and will be no manner, means, or possibility of removal or replacement of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, nor any delegation or diminishment of any of his aforementioned powers, in any way, under any circumstances, for any period, or for any benefit, end, goal, interest, mission, need, objective, purpose, or reason.

Conditions and Terms

All of the above and aforementioned in this section constitutes the Conditions and Terms of Governance of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings (the ā€œConditions and Terms of Governanceā€) and forms an integral part of the Conditions and Terms of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, the Codes and Policies of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings, as well as The Ikoku Group Conduct and Service Agreement you may enter into with The Alvan Ikoku Holdings.

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Redundancy, August 2017 (Matt Artz)

Governing Policies

Provision

The governance of The Alvan Ikoku Holdings is, in important part, conducted via the Codes and Policies below:

Ikoku Holdings Agreement

The Ikoku Holdings Conduct and Service Agreement, which

Collectively Governing
consists of several Codes and Policies that collectively govern all conduct and service in any way relating to The Alvan Ikoku Holdings.
Collectively Including
collectively include the Basic Policies — the Conditions and Terms of Founding, the Conditions and Terms of Governance, the Conditions and Terms of Conduct and Service, the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics, the Acceptable Use Policy — as well as all other codes and policies, associated as the Correlative Policies.
Available Below
are made available further below.

Conditions of Founding

Conditions and Terms of Founding of The Ikoku Holdings (HTML)

Conditions of Governance

Conditions and Terms of Governance of The Ikoku Holdings (HTML)

Conditions of Service

Conditions and Terms of Conduct and Service (HTML)

Founding Ethics

Founding and Governing Code of Ethics (HTML)

Acceptable Use

Acceptable Use Policy (HTML)

All Policies

All Policies (HTML)

Concluding

And as a concluding aviso and proviso, you are informed as well as reminded that by commencing or continuing any conduct or service relating to The Alvan Ikoku HoldingsĀ  — in any way, either directly or indirectly, and via any manner, means, method, or mode — you enter into The Ikoku Holdings Conduct and Service Agreement and agree to abide by and be legally bound by the Policy conditions, principles, protections, and terms described above, and the Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification or severability, as amended from time to time solely by the Founder.

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Also at the Division

The Ikoku Holdings and its parent company, The Ikoku Group, are dedicated to developing, providing and safekeeping ideas and solutions — with the mission to foster care and creativity, culture and communities, ethics and innovation in lives and societies. And so in accordance with the above, The Ikoku Group and Ikoku Holdings provide the following:

I.

A Company of and about Ethics

A company and division whose ethics and policies are carefully crafted, then adhered to by a range of individuals and entities working in varied relation to The Ikoku Group and The Ikoku Holdings to establish, develop and operate a private company dedicated to fostering care and creativity, ethics and innovation.

II.

Built with Integrity and Respect in Mind

A company and division who take as their basis the most robust conceptions of humanity, integrity and respect as well as independence and fundamental freedoms, liberties and rights — up to and beyond what the law protects and provides for — as they carry out and embody their founding and core mission and purposes.

III.

Areas of Focus Chosen for Mission and Work

And a company and division whose areas of focus have been expressly chosen to ensure attention to issues of enduring concern to the Founder — and so committed to providing products, services, sites and spaces that remain safe, secure and respectful places to do work, to teach and learn, to form, inform and, where needed, transform local and global communities.

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