The tipping point appears to have been the recent revelation that a voter -
profiling outfit working with the Trump campaign, Cambridge Analytica, had obtained data on up to 87 million Facebook users without their knowledge or consent.
Gill's LinkedIn
profile reveals that, in addition to his post at IOP, he
works for the Energy Institute, a «leading professional body for the energy industries» that advocates «the safe, environmentally responsible and efficient supply and use of energy in all its forms,» and that he started his career with an
outfit called Coal Processing Consultants LTD..