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Chinese Government Records List Left-wing Billionaire Neville Roy Singham as Corporate Officer for Thoughtworks Beijing
Breitbart News Foundation
8 Oct 2025
Tech-billionaire turned left-wing agitator Neville Roy Singham’s journey from Chicago-based entrepreneur to Shanghai resident has been anything but ordinary.
After founding Thoughtworks, Inc. in 1993 and building the company into a software consulting powerhouse, Singham helped orchestrate its sale in October 2017 for approximately $785 million to a group of funds managed by London-based private equity firm Apax Partners. Corporate records from the United Kingdom confirm Singham’s resignation from Thoughtworks that same month, and his own LinkedIn profile says he has been retired since 2017. Thoughtworks’ English-language website relegates him to its “alumni” section, reinforcing the image of a clean break.
But Chinese government records suggest otherwise. These records list Singham as a corporate officer of Thoughtworks’ Chinese subsidiary, Thoughtworks Beijing, as recently as June 17, 2025, and for at least as far back as 2022. These records are from the National Enterprise Credit Reporting System (NECIPS), China’s corporate registry. Other documents, including trade show profiles and “help-wanted” ads, listed Singham as Thoughtworks Beijing’s official contact in 2021.
Image of the 2022 company profile of Thoughtworks Beijing taken from the National Enterprise Credit Reporting System (NECIPS).
Image taken from a June 17, 2025, China Instant Basic Automated Verification Report.
When asked by BNF for comment specifically about the records for Thoughtworks Beijing, a spokesperson for Thoughtworks responded, “Roy’s affiliation with Thoughtworks ended when he sold the company in 2017 to Apax. Thoughtworks has not been involved with Roy in a business capacity since he sold the company.”
Singham has been in the news a lot lately – most notably in connection with his role in funding the anti-Israel and sometimes anti-Semitic protest movement on college campuses. A 2023 report from the New York Post found that Singham and his wife, left-wing Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans, had “donated over $20.4 million to the People’s Forum from 2017 to 2022 through a series of shell organizations and donor advisory groups — accounting for nearly all of the group’s funding.” Evans sits on the People’s Forum’s board of directors, according to the group’s 2023 financial disclosures.
The People’s Forum has put itself at the forefront of the anti-Israeli protest movement. Following the October 7 Hamas terror attack, the People’s Forum wasted no time drumming up opposition to Israeli military action, organizing a rally in Times Square on October 8, mere hours after Hamas militants murdered and kidnapped thousands of Israelis, as well as a series of protests at Columbia University the following summer. Elias Rodriguez, the man accused of murdering two Israeli embassy employees outside the Capital Jewish Museum in May, took part in protests around 2017 and 2018 organized by left-wing groups connected to the People’s Forum through funding from Singham, according to a report in the New York Post.
Singham has also notably funded groups connected to the recent Los Angeles migrant riots. According to X user Data Republican, organizations backed by Singham have allegedly played key roles in violent protests across the United States.
According to the New York Times, over a quarter of Code Pink’s funding since 2017 has come from groups closely tied to Singham. Perhaps not coincidentally, Code Pink’s criticism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has waned in recent years. Evans, once a harsh critic of China’s human rights abuses, has been noticeably more muted on the topic. In 2020, Code Pink launched a “China Is Not Our Enemy” campaign aimed at “[c]ountering the US’s aggression towards China through love for humanity & dedication to mutual respect, cooperation & world peace,” according to the campaign’s X account. Since the group began receiving funding from Singham, Code Pink has described Western concern over the Chinese government’s treatment of the Uyghur population as “a tool to drive the U.S.’s hybrid war on China,” mirroring talking points used by the CCP.
Image of the “China Is Not Our Enemy” X account page.
The lines between Singham’s professional career, which is deeply influenced by his ideology, and his activism, which is fueled by his personal wealth, have at times been blurred.
“But as I saw [Singham] spend more energy on his activist work, it was apparent it would be appealing to him to accelerate that activism with the money that selling Thoughtworks would bring,” Martin Fowler, a software engineer at Thoughtworks, wrote about Singham’s decision to sell the company. “We often joke that Roy’s yacht is his activist work, and we’re happy to see profits from our efforts helping it sail.”
There has been a revolving door between nonprofits tied to Singham and Thoughtworks. The United Community Fund, a Singham-backed non-profit involved in funding protest movements, is led by Franziska Kleiner, who previously worked for Thoughtworks in Germany. The People’s Forum (mentioned above) listed former Thoughtworks analyst Chris Caruso as its treasurer in 2023. The People’s Support Foundation was co-founded and led by a team which included Chad Wathington, Thoughtworks’ former chief strategy officer, and Jason Pfetcher, its former general counsel.
Interestingly, Singham has shared office space with the Maku Group, a Shanghai-based media outlet actively involved in challenging concerns about China’s human rights record. The Maku Group’s founder Jie Xiong accused the U.S. of trying to use the Uyghur issue to “light the match of Islamic extremism in China’s Xinjiang.” In an article coauthored with Vijay Prasad, executive director of the Singham-funded Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, Xiong described human rights concerns as “central to US cold war on China.” Non-profits linked to Singham have given over $1.8 million to the Maku Group, according to the New York Times.
In 2021, Apax Partners took Thoughtworks public, with an initial public offering price of $21 per share. Then in 2024, Apax Partners helped take Thoughtworks private again for $1.75 billion at $4.40 per share. Based on a review by BNF, and corroborated by both Grok and Gemini, Singham is not listed in any of Thoughtworks’ SEC filings during the years the company was publicly traded.
Singham’s alleged involvement in Thoughtworks Beijing after 2017 would, if true, give him a foothold in a business that has proven lucrative for Thoughtworks. Thoughtworks’ 2021 IPO prospectus disclosed $83.5 million in revenue from China during 2020, and $45.9 million in revenue from China during the first three months of 2021. The company’s 2023 annual report disclosed that 20 percent of the company’s work force is located in China. The Beijing branch —where Singham is named as a corporate officer — opened a new office this year.
Thoughtworks’ and Singham’s relationship with Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications company with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, runs deep. From 2002 to 2008, Singham personally worked as a consultant for Huawei; and Huawei remained a client of Thoughtworks through at least 2019, according to corporate documents. When asked by BNF whether Thoughtworks or any of its subsidiaries such as Thoughtworks Beijing had done any work with Huawei since August of 2020, a Thoughtworks spokesperson responded, “we do not disclose or comment on our client relationships.”
Interestingly, Thoughtworks appears to have no U.S. patents, but Thoughtworks Beijing holds a dozen in China. The first of Thoughtworks’ Chinese patents — related to touchscreen technology — was awarded in June 2019. The month prior, in May 2019, the Trump administration’s Department of Commerce blacklisted Huawei over concerns about intellectual property theft and national security. American companies were given until August 2020 to cease business with Huawei.
Singham has attracted negative attention from both sides of the aisle. Last year, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was recorded telling a group of anti-Israel Code Pink activists to “go back to China.” In 2024, then-Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, now President Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, called on the Biden administration’s Department of Justice to investigate Singham as a foreign agent due to his possible ties to the CCP. This echoed Rubio’s similar request in a 2023 letter to then-Attorney General Merrick Garland.
More recently, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee began probing Singham’s alleged involvement in violent anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter in June to Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting a briefing on what the DOJ is doing to investigate Singham’s activities. Citing reports of Singham’s ties to radical groups, the letter states, “These reports suggest that Mr. Singham may have acted as an agent for the CCP.”
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