
Founding and Form
The Founding
The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC was established in January 2019 by its sole Founder, Original Member, President and Chair, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku — as one part of ongoing work he has carried out for over two decades, leading also to his founding of Publiks Inc, The Ikoku Charitable Trusts and The Ikoku Foundations. Where appropriate and approved by the Founder, these entities endeavor to coordinate their efforts and resultant benefit to the communities they serve.
Formation
The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC is formally organized as a series limited liability company, as provided for in the Delaware State Code of the United States, and it is registered and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. The Group is also officially known under the business names, The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Group and The Ikoku Group. All three names, as used in official Ikoku Group documents, products, services, and sites, refer to the same aforementioned company entity.
The Divisions
As provided for under law for series limited liability companies, The Ikoku Group uses its series as a primary means to structure its assets, interests and operations. A portion of The Ikoku Group interests, series and shares-equivalents are dedicated to the structuring of its assets, operations, products, services and sites into the five (5) divisions and eight (8) areas of focus described in the main Areas and Divisions page.
The five divisions are as follows:
The Areas
As further described in Areas and Divisions, the divisions of The Ikoku Group develop, provide and safeguard holdings, products, services and sites in the eight (8) areas below:
- Care | Health | Sciences;
- Culture Communities;
- Design | Development;
- Ethics | Rights;
- Education | Information;
- Research | Inquiry;
- Real | Intellectual Property; and
- Solutions | Technologies.
The Mission
The Ikoku Group, via its divisions, is thus structured to carry out efforts in the aforementioned areas, and to ultimately fulfill its originating mission to foster care and creativity, ethics and innovation in work and communities of enduring concern to its Founder and Partners. As always, the objective is the improvement of lives and the betterment of societies.
Governing Structure
Ownership
The Ikoku Group is led and managed by its sole Founder and Owner, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, who serves as its President and CEO. The following are further details concerning governance of The Group.
Sole Shareholder, Director, Authorizer
Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku is the sole interests-holder, shareholder and director of The Ikoku Group and its divisions, series and subsidiaries, and as such is the only person empowered to authorize The Ikoku Group to engage in or enter into a specified activity or arrangement.
Sole Manner of Authorization
Such authorization by the above Founder may proceed only via express written and signed instrument. No other activity in The Ikoku Group, its divisions, series, subsidiaries, and affiliates, or their Sites, Products and Services may take the place of such authorization, nor may any other such activity be taken as indication of donor preference, authorized transfer of charitable funds, or permission for any specific nonprofit activity on the part of The Ikoku Group, its President, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, or The Ikoku Charitable Trusts or The Ikoku Foundations.
Leadership and Management
Any further announcements and details of the leadership and management of The Ikoku Group shall be provided here upon completion of searches and appointments by the Founder.
Partners and Partnerships
Any further announcements and details of partners within and partnerships with The Ikoku Group shall be provided here upon completion of agreements and appointments by the Founder.
Core Purposes
Opening
The development of The Ikoku Group is governed by its sole Founder and Owner, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, as well as a set of attendant mission-related core purposes derived from a history of company establishment further described below:
History and Impetus for Founding
During a period preceding and extending into the formation of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC, the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, was subject to a set of consistent, extensive, pervasive, dehumanizing and subhumanizing practices — including but not limited to discrimination, harassment, stalking, and unconsented communication, experimentation, monitoring, and spying — that entailed profound violations of the Founder’s basic, fundamental and natural freedoms, liberties and rights, confidentiality and privacy rights, and fundamental autonomy, dignity and humanity accorded and provided to citizens and residents of California, Delaware, the United States, and member states of the United Nations.*
* For further details regarding the above history and impetus for founding, please make written request to the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku. And furthermore, by using or visiting, in any way, The Ikoku Group, any area, part, section or properties of The Ikoku Group, any area, part, section or properties of its divisions, series, subsidiaries or affiliates, as well as any of its Products or Services, including the Sites, you accept and agree to fully inform the Founder of any knowledge you have regarding the above and related activities and history.
Founding Core Purpose
In response to the above, the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, established and shall further develop The Ikoku Group with the core, express and founding purpose to create, develop, and support communities, institutions, and societies where the above and related practices do not occur and to help other communities, institutions, and societies reduce the occurrence and prevalence of the above and related practices.
Contemporary Humanism
Such core, express and founding purpose shall also be in response to apparent, historical and sustained failures and limitations of established, present-day and prevailing civics, commerce, education, institutions, politics, public discourse and religion to provide a meaningful moral and ethical basis for ensuring the care, equanimity, recognition, respect, sanctity, sovereignty and spiritual or theological wholeness of human beings in contemporary society. Thus, The Ikoku Group, operating as a for-profit company, shall do so via the following faith-based commitments and principles:
* For further details regarding the above founding commitments to contemporary humanism, please make written request to the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku. And furthermore, by using or visiting, in any way, The Ikoku Group, any area, part, section or properties of The Ikoku Group, any area, part, section or properties of its divisions, series, subsidiaries or affiliates, as well as any of its Products or Services, including the Sites, you accept and agree to fully inform the Founder of any knowledge you have regarding the above and related activities and history.
Attendant Core Purposes
As part of the core, express and founding purposes described above, the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, shall also further develop The Ikoku Group in view of the Founder’s birth into, formation within and further development of a multigenerational, longstanding family commitment to lifelong education and research; as well as in direct response to past, present-day and ongoing infringements of basic, fundamental and natural freedoms, liberties and rights, including the disenfranchisement, forced migration, impoverishment, marginalization, stigmatization, underrepresentation, unethical care and research, and violations of due process, liberty and privacy rights, of varying peoples in Africa, its global diasporas, and culturally and structurally connected societies. The Ikoku Group shall thus have an attendant founding purpose to promote public awareness of, enhance public knowledge of and engage in commerce in and pertaining to Africa, its global diasporas, and its connected or shared societies, as well as foster global interrelationships between Africa and the Americas, Asia, Australasia and Oceania, and Europe.
Incompatibility with Founding
Notwithstanding any provisions of the Codes and Policies of The Ikoku Group or any other applicable documents, guidelines, laws, policies, or equivalent legal instruments, no objectives of The Ikoku Group shall supersede or be of greater benefit, import, or priority than the core, express and founding mission and purposes of The Ikoku Group as defined, described and delineated above. No activities, operations, or other processes of The Ikoku Group shall entail any of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices. And any version of such practices — as well as any accruing of advantage, benefit, or information through such practices, and also any natural or legal persons assisting, employing, permitting, planning, or otherwise conducting or promoting such practices — are by definition incompatible with The Ikoku Group as well as its founding, development, administration, management, and operation; and upon the discovery of such practices, reporting to, remedies to, and subsequent remedying with the Founder as well as The Ikoku Group shall be conducted and sought immediately.
Examples of Incompatibility
For these reasons, no person or entity may become or remain qualified as board or committee member, director, trustee, officer, executive, manager or other leadership, staff or employee, advisor or consultant, provider of care, of education, of mentorship, or of training, affiliate, partner, representative, recipient of funds or resources, researcher or observer, sponsor, supervisor, volunteer, parental entity, voting or decision-making entity, member or stakeholder, or other agent of The Ikoku Group (including its divisions, series, subsidiaries, affiliates, and partners) if conducting or promoting any of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors, or their equivalent, as well as if in intentional violation of the core, express and founding purposes described above, the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics, or any of the ensuing codes, ethics, policies, protections, and rights provided for by The Ikoku Group concerning confidentiality, consent, privacy, respect, and unconsented care, education, experimentation, monitoring, research, tracking, training, supervision, or surveillance. Due to this stipulation, under no circumstances shall the following persons — as well as any affiliates, associates, collaborators, employees, employers, executives, leaders, members, partners, representatives, staff, volunteers, third parties and other agents of said persons — qualify:
Example of Natural Person
Example of Natural Person — any natural person who engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes any of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors; who engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the intentional interference with or violation of the codes, policies, protections, rights, studies, or teachings pertaining to the prevention of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors and especially the Founding Code of Ethics; who engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the impediment, interference, or diminishment of the Founder’s ability to determine, interpret, and ensure the core, express and founding mission and purposes of The Ikoku Group; and who engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the impediment, interference, or diminishment of the Founder’s governance over and administration, management, and operation of The Ikoku Group and particularly the Founder’s ability to determine and ensure remedies and compliance with the codes, policies, protections rights, studies, or teachings of The Ikoku Group pertaining to the prevention of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors and especially the Founding Code of Ethics. For instance, in this case, Eleanor Marie Brown (AB, Brown; JD, Yale) of Jamaica and the United States of America; Rafael Parera Nadal of Manacor, Mallorca, Spain; and Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro of Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
Example of Legal Person
Example of Legal Person — any legal person that engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters or promotes any of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors; that engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the intentional interference with or violation of the codes, policies, protections rights, studies, or teachings pertaining to the prevention of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors and especially the Founding Code of Ethics; that engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the impediment, interference, or diminishment of the Founder’s ability to determine, interpret, and ensure the core, express and founding mission and purposes of The Ikoku Group; and that engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the impediment, interference, or diminishment of the Founder’s governance over and administration, management, and operation of The Ikoku Group and particularly the Founder’s ability to determine and ensure remedies and compliance with the codes, policies, protections rights, studies, or teachings of The Ikoku Group pertaining to the prevention of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors and especially the Founding Code of Ethics. For example, in this case, Leland Stanford Jr University of Palo Alto, California, United States of America; The New York Times Company of New York City, New York, United States of America; and The United States Tennis Association of White Plains, New York, United States of America.
Example of Government Person
Example of Government Person — as well as, additionally, for related ethics, governance, policies and protections reasons — any government or political person, including but not limited to any political party or organization, any government or public authority, entity, office, official or other agent, and any person who has held such authority, office, position or equivalent capacity, function or relationship within the preceding ten (10) years. For instance, in this case, Barack Hussein Obama (AB, Columbia; JD, Harvard) of Honolulu, Hawaii and Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.
Beneficiaries, Communities, Publics
To further clarify, with respect to The Ikoku Group, and especially its mission and purposes, Codes and Policies, and all other documentation and writing pertaining to its administration, governance, management, and operation, the terms “beneficiaries,” “communities,” “publics” and their equivalent (such as natural and legal persons and people employed, funded or served by The Ikoku Group) shall be limited to and include only persons who do not engage in any of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors, or their equivalent, and furthermore those who accord persons equal and full enjoyment of basic freedoms and rights derived from a robustly ethical and humane respect for the autonomy, confidentiality, and privacy of human beings — including as such freedoms and rights are defined and delineated in the Founding Ethics and the Codes and Policies — namely:
* For further details regarding the above core beneficiaries, communities, and publics, please make written request to the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku. And furthermore, by using or visiting, in any way, The Ikoku Group, any area, part, section or properties of The Ikoku Group, any area, part, section or properties of its divisions, series, subsidiaries or affiliates, as well as any of its Products or Services, including the Sites, you accept and agree to fully inform the Founder of any knowledge you have regarding the above and related activities and history.
Concluding
And furthermore, by using or visiting, in any way, The Ikoku Group, any area, part, section or properties of The Ikoku Group, any area, part, section or properties of its divisions, series, subsidiaries or affiliates, as well as any of its Products or Services, including the Sites, you accept and agree to the statements, terms, conditions and requirements described above and on this section regarding the Founding and Governance of The Ikoku Group, and in the Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification.
Founding and Governing Documents
Provision
Provided below is a listing of documents pertaining to The Ikoku Group’s founding and governance that we keep current in our Books and Records, including those of formation, licensing, and corporate and user governance. All such documents are in the safekeeping of the Founder and President, Alvan Azinna Ikoku, who is the only person authorized to retain, amend, keep current and show originals and copies. Where appropriate, we may provide the public with a link to access approved and downloadable copies of such documents.
For policies that govern employees, volunteers, partners, third-parties, visitors and users of The Ikoku Group, as well as its divisions, series, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and Sites, Services and Products, please see our Codes and Policies page.
Certificates of Formation
2020 Amended and Restated Certificate of Formation (HTML and PDF)
2019 Amended and Restated Certificate of Formation (HTML and PDF)
2019 Certificate of Formation (HTML and PDF)
Business Licensure
2020 Business License/Franchise Tax — Delaware (HTML and PDF)
2019 Business License/Franchise Tax — Delaware (HTML and PDF)
Operating Agreement
2019 The Amended and Restated Series Limited Liability Company Operating Agreement of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC (Private/NotForPublicAccess)
2019 The Limited Liability Company Operating Agreement of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC (Private/NotForPublicAccess)
Codes and Policies
Codes and Policies (HTML and PDF)
Also at the Group
The Ikoku Group is 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 provides the following:
A Company of and about Ethics
A company and divisions 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 its divisions to establish, develop and operate a private company dedicated to fostering care and creativity, ethics and innovation.
Built with Integrity and Respect in Mind
A company and divisions 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.
Areas of Focus Chosen for Mission and Work
And a company and divisions 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 even alter local and global communities.