Evidently, the Hutchins Family Foundation was created by Glenn H. Hutchins. Here is a filing they made:
http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/371/501/2008-371501785-053d7942-F.pdf
in that document you will see, Glenn H. Hutchins listed as the primary contributor. Glenn H. Hutchins seems to be an extremely powerful and wealthy individual. He just elected/put on the New York Federal Reserve board!!
Look at this post:
http://www.ny.frb.org/newsevents/news/aboutthefed/2011/oa110901.html
here is an excerpt from the above post:
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Mr. Hutchins is a founder and co-chief executive of Silver Lake, one of the worlds largest private investment firms in the technology industry and technology-enabled businesses. He has spent his business career investing in the most rapidly growing and dynamic companies in the United States and around the world. Mr. Hutchins is chairman of the board of SunGard Corp. and a director of the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. and Mercury Payment Systems.
Mr. Hutchins is active in public and charitable service. He served President Clinton in both the transition and the White House as a Special Advisor on economic and healthcare policy and is vice chairman of the board of the Brookings Institution. He is also a director of the Harvard Management Company responsible for the management of Harvard Universitys endowment. He is a chairman of the National Advisory Board of the W.E.B. Dubois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard and of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Hamilton Project, a director of the Partnership for New York City, and a member of the Investors Advisory Committee on Financial Markets of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Mr. Hutchins holds an A.B. from Harvard College, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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also, check out this website, that rates individuals on connections and influence:
http://www.muckety.com/Glenn-H-Hutchins/542.muckety
my lord!! this man is connected to all sorts of money and power. It is unbelievable!! He seems to even dwarf the Whittemores, as far as money and influence go.
What is his relationship with Scott Carlson?... I suspect it comes from a Harvard connection. Mr. Hutchins got all three of his degrees from Harvard, and Scott Carlson and is linkedin profile says:
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After leaving the fund and returning to the US, I developed the operating plan and organizational structure for the Harvard Institute of Global Health at the request of two friends from HBS." (HBS = Harvard Business School)
So I suspect they know each other through Harvard..
In my opinion, the good news is that they are taking a venture capital/entrepreneurial approach to ME/CFS I suspect this means they are going to try to streamline the research process. I also suspect they will examine closely and perhaps sometimes follow the Myelin Repair Foundation's model of trying to push research into the clinic as fast as possible.
This is extraordinarily good news. It is obvious that Mr. Hutchins is an extremely powerful, influential, giving individual. And unfortunately for him -- I suspect he must have a family member with ME/CFS.
I also note that Scott Carlson became the executive director of the Chronic Fatigue Initiative in 2010 - as listed at the chronic fatigue initiative's website. That means this organization has been forming for almost a year now.