Google billionaire Sergey Brin has a secret charity that sends ex-military staff into disaster zones on a superyacht
The Daily Beast has identified Sergey Brin as the sole donor to a secretive disaster-response charity called GSD.
The company, almost half of whose staff are ex-military, arrives at disaster areas on a superyacht called "Dragonfly" to clear debris and use high-tech solutions to assist victims. GSD is headed up by Grant Dawson, an ex-naval lieutenant who was one of Brin's personal security detail for years. Dawson said in a speech in 2019 about GSD: "So I grabbed a number of Air Force para-rescue guys I'd been affiliated with from the security world, and a couple of corpsmen out of the [Navy] Seal teams [...] We raided every Home Depot and pharmacy we could find and on about 18 hours' notice, we launched.
"GSD provided operational support to stand up the first two drive-through test centers in California and planning and logistic support for other test centers as they opened across the state," GSD says on its. "Our paramedics and support staff also partnered with the Hayward, California Fire Department to perform more than 8,000 swab tests at their drive-through test site and local eldercare facilities," it adds.
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