Francis Charig (born November 23, 1960 in Hurst Green, Oxted, England) is the British Chief Executive Officer and founder of Antix Labs 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, Chairman of the Open Contents Platform Association in Tokyo and was a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2006. His father was the palaeontologist Alan J. Charig.