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• Mehmet Akcin - Critical Infrastructure Engineer, DNS Operations (PGP Key)
  Mehmet Akcin was hired by ICANN as Network Engineer in early June, 2006. He attended previous ICANN meetings in Canada and New Zealand. He also attended and presented at different meetings such as NANOG, RIPE, and CIF.

• Steve Antonoff - Director of Human Resources
  

  Steve Antonoff joined ICANN as Director of Human Resources in March 2007. In this capacity Steve is responsible for the global human capital activities of the organization with a particular emphasis on performance management, sourcing qualified individuals to join the ICANN team, and developing efficiencies in process and procedure.

• Nick Ashton-Hart - Director for At-Large
  

  Nick Ashton-Hart is Director of At-Large for ICANN, where he is responsible for assisting and supporting the community of Individual Internet Users engaged in ICANN represent their views and in providing the staff and technical infrastructure to help them do so.

• Donna Austin - Manager - Governmental Relations
  

  Donna joined ICANN in February 2005, in the ccNSO Policy Support role which she held until April 2007. She has more recently taken on the role of Manager — Governmental Relations which includes being the GAC Liaison. She has also supported the Nominating Committee in 2005, 2006 and again in 2007, and is the project manager for Accountability Framework discussions with ccTLD managers.

• Amanda Baber - IANA Project Assistant
  

  Amanda joined ICANN in November 2006 and serves as IANA Project Assistant where she processes requests from global stakeholders to meet DNS addressing requirements.

• Rod Beckstrom - President and CEO
  

  Rod Beckstrom commenced as President and CEO of ICANN on 1 July 2009.

• Bridgett Benmosche - Sr. Human Resources Representative
  

  Bridgett joined ICANN in December 2007 as Sr. Human Resources Representative where she is responsible for a broad range of HR activities including recruiting, records management, benefits administration, training and development, and policies.

• Geoff Bickers - Director of Security Operations (PGP Key)
  

  Geoff joined ICANN in October 2008 as Director of Security Operations where he is responsible for IT security, as well as personnel and physical security matters.

• Joshua Bierman - End User Support
  

  Josh joined ICANN in June 2008 as an End User Support Technician where he is responsible for supporting users on IT related equipment including computers, phones, copiers, etc.

• Bart Boswinkel - Senior Policy Advisor, ccNSO
  

  Bart started working for ICANN in October 2005 and currently serves as Senior Policy Advisor, ccNSO where he is responsible for working with the ccNSO on policy and related matters.

• Doug Brent - Chief Operating Officer
  Doug Brent joined ICANN in January, 2007 in the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer (COO). ICANN’s COO has executive oversight of operational services, including IANA, support of contracted parties (registries/registrars), contractual compliance, policy development support, and major project initiatives. Additionally, the COO is responsible for internal business operation functions (Finance, Human Resources and Information Technology). The COO is also responsible for managing ICANN’s strategic plan/operating plan/budget planning cycle, reporting, and metrics.

• Connie Brown - Compliance Program Specialist
  

  Connie joined ICANN in October 2004 and serves as Compliance Program Specialist supporting the contract compliance and audit functions.

• Stacy Burnette - Director, Contractual Compliance
  

  Stacy joined ICANN in November 2006 and serves as Director, Contractual Compliance where she is responsible for the day to day activities of the contract compliance and audit functions.

• Mandy Carver - Deputy General Manager, Global Partnerships
  Mandy Carver (Kathryn A. Carver) joined ICANN as the Deputy General Manager for Global Partnerships in November 2006. Her responsibilities include identifying and assessing the policy issues emerging from local internet conditions as well as leading, managing, and mentoring a team of regional liaisons that collaborate with local constituents and represent ICANN’s global strategy.

• Michael Cashin - Accountant, Accounts Payable
  

  Michael joined ICANN in August of 2006. A native of Los Angeles, he holds a degree in Business Economics from University of California, Santa Barbara.

• Steve Chan - New gTLD Process Coordinator
  

  Steve joined ICANN in February 2008 and serves as New gTLD Process Coordinator where he is responsible for coordinating the processes for new and renewing gTLD applications.

• David Closson - Chief Engineer
  

• Tim Cole - Chief Registrar Liaison
  

  Tim works in conjunction with the Director of Contract Compliance to review the operations of the gTLD domain name registrars. This involves promoting their compliance with ICANN agreements and policies and partnering with them to assure smooth operations. He oversees the registrar new and renewal accreditation process. Tim also provides oversight for the ICANN approved dispute resolution service providers who administer UDRP and other domain name dispute services.

• David Conrad - Vice President of Research and IANA Strategy
  

  David Conrad works for ICANN as Vice President of Research and IANA Strategy. A long time participant in Internet technical circles, David first began working with Internet technologies in 1983 leading teams developing Internet-related products and services.

• Carole Cornell - Director, Project Office
  

  Carole Cornell joined ICANN in November 2006 as the Director, Project Office. Her role is to create and maintain a uniform approach to project management; provide oversight for all projects, and serve as a change agent for continuous improvement through improved/enhanced methodologies. Carole brings over 25 years of diversified, multi-national and global experience in project management. Most recently Carole served as Vice President, Operations and in Business Development at WET Design. Prior to that, Carole was with Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) as Executive Director, Project Technical Services and Integrated Business Applications.

• Michelle S. Cotton - Manager, IETF Relations (PGP Key)
  

  Michelle joined ICANN in 2000 and has served various roles, primarily focusing on IANA functions. Michelle currently serves as the Manager, IETF Relations. In that capacity she develops and maintains working relationships with the IETF Community.

• John Crain - Chief Technical Officer (PGP Key)
  

  John is currently the Chief Technical Officer at ICANN. Prior to his time at ICANN, John worked as part of the executive management team at the RIPE NCC in Amsterdam (http://www.ripe.net). The RIPE NCC is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) that provides Internet resource allocations for Europe and surrounding areas.

• Kent Crispin - Technical Systems Manager (PGP Key)

• Tina Dam - IDN Program Director
  

  Tina joined ICANN in 2003 as Chief gTLD Registry Liaison, where she was responsible for developing ICANN's gTLD Registry functions including defining and managing processes in accordance with consensus policies and ICANN agreements for servicing the gTLD registries. In January 2006 Tina was appointed Director for ICANN's IDN Program. In this capacity she develops and manages all IDN related projects at ICANN focused at the deployment of internationalized top level domains.

• Kim Davies - Manager, Root Zone Services
  

  Kim Davies joined ICANN as IANA Technical Liaison. His primary responsibilities are for DNS root zone management, and other domain name related aspects of IANA's work.

• Glen de Saint Géry - GNSO Secretariat

• Aba Diakite - Financial Analyst
  

  Aba joined ICANN in December 2006 and serves as a Financial Analyst where he is responsible for budget preparation and analysis and general accounting/finance functions.

• Samantha Eisner - Senior Counsel
  

• Jeannie Ellers - Executive Assistant
  

  Jeannie joined ICANN in May 2008 and serves as a Senior Administrative Assistant providing specific support to the Global Partnerships team as well as general administrative support for the whole organization.

• Baher Esmat - Manager, Regional Relations – Middle East
  

  Baher Esmat is part of ICANN Global Partnerships. He joined ICANN in February 2006 from the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), where he had served since 2002, most recently as Telecom Planning Manager, where his responsibilities included projects relating to communications infrastructure and service development within the framework of building Egypt’s Information Society.

• Maria Farrell - Director, Information Coordination Unit, ICANN Corporate Affairs
  

  Maria Farrell is an Irish national and studied History and Politics at University College Dublin (1990–1994) and worked in film and television production in Ireland and the UK for four years. She received an MA in Interactive Media from the Dublin Institute of Technology in 1999 and an MSc in Government from the London School of Economics in 2000. Maria joined ICANN in February 2005. While working as ICANN’s GNSO Policy Officer, Maria earned an MBA part-time at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium.

• Frank Fowlie - Ombudsman
  

  Frank is the inaugural ICANN Ombudsman. He has been the Ombudsman since November 2004.

• Liz Gasster - Senior Policy Counselor, ICANN Policy Support
  

  Liz Gasster joined ICANN as Senior Policy Counselor in October 2007. In this role, Liz is responsible for supporting the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), which includes working with the GNSO to develop global policies that advance ICANN’s mission of preserving the security, stability and interoperability of the Internet.

• David Giza - Senior Director, Contractual Compliance
  

  David joined ICANN in November 2008 as Senior Director, Contractual Compliance where he is responsible for the strategic development of contractual compliance efforts.

• Steve Gobin - Registrar Liaison Manager
  

  Based out of ICANN's Brussels office, Steve is the main point of contact within ICANN for European registrars and provides a variety of service support to ICANN stakeholders in the region as well as overall support related to ICANN's accreditation process.

• Daniel E. Halloran - Deputy General Counsel (PGP Key)
  

  Dan is a graduate of Loyola Law School (Los Angeles) and the University of Chicago College, and has studied at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Dan speaks and writes Spanish fluently, is familiar with Portuguese and has studied Mandarin Chinese.

• Pablo Hinojosa - ICANN Global Partnership - Latin American Liaison
  

  Previous to joining ICANN, Pablo was Director for Multilateral Affairs in the Mexican Federal Telecommunications Commission (COFETEL). As a government official, he was the Representative from Mexico at ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), where he held the positions of Vice- Chair and Convener of the Working Group on ccTLDs. He has attended numerous ICANN meetings since 2001.

• Stacy Hoffberg - Meeting Planner
  

  Stacy joined ICANN in December 2007 and serves as a Meeting Planner where she is involved in the planning of the three annual ICANN meetings as well as other regional and local meetings including travel arrangements, venue selection, etc.

• Rob Hoggarth - Senior Policy Director
  

  Rob joined ICANN in January 2008 and serves as Senior Policy Director where he manages global policy activities and acts as a point of contact to cross functional teams.

• Maggie Hudson - Executive Assistant to the President and CEO
  

  Maggie joined ICANN in September 2007 and serves as Executive Assistant to the President and CEO where she coordinates the activities of the office of the CEO including travel, presentations, broad based participation, organizing meetings, and general administrative support.

• Anne-Rachel Inné - Regional Liaison for Africa
  

  Anne-Rachel is part of the Global Partnership department at ICANN that has a network of seven regional liaisons so far. It was established in response to Internet community demand and in implementation of ICANN's publicly agreed strategic plan. Her responsibilities include outreach, support to and engagement with respective regions and stakeholders, civil society, business and governments; partnering with respective organizations; delivering against an action plan consistent with ICANN's operations and strategic plans.

• Yurie Ito - Director, Global Security Programs
  

  Yurie joined ICANN in April 2008 as Director, Global Security Programs where she leads ICANN's involvement in collaborative response activities and works with ICANN partner organizations and stakeholders at global and regional levels in implementing ICANN security, stability and resiliency programs.

• John Jeffrey - General Counsel
  

  John brings 18 years of legal and business experience in the technology and entertainment industries to this position and has provided services to individuals, non-profits/trusts, and companies (from startups to Fortune 500 companies) as a dealmaker, litigator, corporate and intellectual property lawyer, and business executive.

• Patrick Jones - Registry Liaison Manager
  

  Patrick joined ICANN in March 2006 and serves as Registry Liaison Manager where he manages the contractual relationships with registries including new applications, renewals and ongoing contractual matters.

• Michele Jourdan - Executive Assistant
  

  Michele joined ICANN in August 2008 and serves as Executive Assistant providing specific support to the Corporate Affairs team as well as general administrative support for the whole organization.

• Tanzanica S. King - Communications and Publications Manager

  Tanzanica King joined ICANN in September 2002 and serves as Communications and Publications Manager. She is primarily responsible for art production and print communications for ICANN meetings and conferences, as well as content management for the ICANN meeting websites.

• Marika Konings - Policy Director
  

  Marika Konings joined ICANN in July 2008 as Policy Director. In this capacity she will be managing policy development activities in support of the GNSO.

• Alexander Kulik - System Administrator (PGP Key)
  

  Alexander manages many critical ICANN IT services such as real time, continuous backup system, the financial system and the Dial UP/ Wireless/ Broadband Internet connectivity system.

• Richard Lamb - DNSSEC Program Manager
  

  Rick started performing IANA functions in 2007 after escaping from Washington DC where he was Director Global IT Policy at the US Department of State. While there he spent much of his time working to ensure policymakers and other stakeholders understood the technology and philosophy behind the Internet and other information technologies.

• Janice Douma Lange - Project Coordinator / Fellowship Program
  

  Janice Douma Lange joined ICANN as a Coordinator for the Project Office in February 2007. In September 2007, she assumed the additional role of managing the Fellowship Program, which provides an opportunity for selected candidates from developing and underdeveloped countries to participate in the ICANN International Public meetings around the world.

• Matthias Langenegger - At-Large Coordination Officer
  

  Matthias Langenegger joined ICANN in February 2008 as Coordination Officer for At-Large. In this capacity he assists the regional At-Large organizations and the At-Large Advisory Committee with administrative support.

• Karen Lentz - Manager, Business Research & Content
  

  Karen Lentz joined ICANN in 2003. Karen works with the Services group to coordinate and manage research needs and create external reporting on work in process within the group. Prior to this role, she served as part of the gTLD Registry Liaison area.

• Karen Lettner - Administrative Support Manager
  

  Karen joined ICANN in December 2007 and serves as Administrative Support Manager responsible for supervising the administrative team as well as facilities, office equipment, travel services, purchasing, etc.

• Paul Levins - Executive Officer and Vice President - Corporate Affairs
  

  Paul has over 25 years experience at the most senior levels of the government, business and non-government sectors. At ICANN he is responsible for communications (which encompasses media relations and public participation), meetings, and website development.

• Pearl Liang - IANA Project Specialist
  

  Pearl joined ICANN in November 2004 and serves as IANA Project Specialist where she processes requests from global stakeholders to meet DNS addressing requirements.

• Marco Lorenzoni - Director, Organizational Reviews
  

  Marco joined ICANN in October 2008. He is responsible for directing the organizational review process throughout ICANN.

• Kimberly Lundell - Executive Assistant
  

  Kim joined ICANN in July 2008 and serves Executive Assistant providing specific support to the Services team as well as general administrative support for the whole organization.

• Veni Markovski - Global Partnership, Regional Liaison for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  

  Veni chairs the Bulgarian President's IT Advisory Committee and served on the Boards of ICANN, the Internet Society, and CPSR. Veni supports the work of the Bulgarian governmental Agency for Information Technologies and Communications by advising its chairman. He has chaired the ICANN Membership Implementation Task Force. He has also been expert to several Bulgarian Parliaments, and is among the contributors to different laws, among them the Telecommunications Act, the Penal Code (computer crimes chapter), the Electronic Document and Digital Signature Law, the Copyright Law, and others.

• Robby Markowicz - Executive Assistant, Legal
  

  Robby joined ICANN in January 2007 and serves as Executive Assistant, Legal where she provides both paralegal and administrative support to the Legal team.

• Kieren McCarthy - General Manager of Public Participation
  

  Kieren is responsible for increasing participation in ICANN by the global Internet community. He has a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Nottingham University, UK, and worked as a journalist for publications including The Guardian, The Times, The Register and Techworld for 10 years prior to joining ICANN in January 2007.
  Skype: kierenmccarthy
  Email: kieren [dot] mccarthy [at] icann.org

• William McKelligott - Compliance Auditor (PGP Key)
  

  William joined ICANN's Office of Contractual Compliance in October 2008 and is responsible for conducting audits of registrar and registry contractual obligations.

• Denise Michel - Vice President, Policy Development
  

  Denise has been involved in the evolution of the Internet for over 20 years, and has served in positions of increasing responsibility with the U.S. Senate, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the American Electronics Association, the Clinton Administration, and an Internet start-up. She joined ICANN in 2001, and as ICANN's Vice President for Policy, she oversees its bottom-up, consensus-based policy process, and works with her international staff and the ICANN community to support the stable and secure operation of the Internet's unique identifier systems.

• Margie Milam - Senior Policy Counselor
  

• Massimiliano Minisci - Manager, Regional Relations - Europe
  

  Massimiliano joined ICANN in January 2008 and serves as Manager, Regional Relations - Europe where he is responsible for the outreach programs, communications and education for local constituents.

• Anand Mishra - Technical Project Manager
  

  Anand joined ICANN in August 2008 and serves as Technical Project Manager providing project leadership and guidance on a variety of technical projects involving cross-functional teams.

• Eric Nelson - DNS Engineer
  

  Eric joined ICANN in September 2007 as DNS Engineer and provides technical support to domain name system servers and related equipment.

• Olof Nordling - Director, Services Relations and Branch Manager, Brussels office
  

  Olof is a Swedish national and holds an MSc and was for many years Head of the TeliaSonera, the Swedish/Finnish Telecommunications group's Brussels office, where he was responsible for relations to the EU institutions for Telecommunications policy matters. In the past Olof was Counsellor and Head of the Science and Technology office at the Swedish Embassy in Paris. Prior to this he was Deputy Trade Commissioner for Sweden, based in Los Angeles. In his earlier career Olof was a Systems Analyst for Honeywell Bull in Paris.

• Shernon Osepa - Manager, Regional Relations - Caribbean
  

  Shernon joined ICANN in July 2008 and serves as Manager, Regional Relations - Caribbean where he is responsible for the outreach programs, communications and education for local constituents.

• Ritsa Panagis - Senior Business Systems Analyst
  

• Roman Pelikh - Director of IT
  

  Roman joined ICANN in August 2007 and serves as the Director of IT overseeing application development, systems, and support.

• Scott Pinzon - Director, Policy Communications / Information Services
  

  Scott Pinzon joined ICANN in June 2009 as Director of Policy Communications. His responsibilities include producing policy summaries, background papers, policy newsletters, web-based content and other material that educates and informs ICANN's stakeholders.

• Dave Piscitello - Senior Security Technologist
  

  Dave is a recognized expert in the fields of Internet routing, broadband access and security. He served as an IESG area director of the IESG and authored several RFCs. Dave started a private consulting firm in 1993, and served as a technical advisor to a number of successful Internet startups. An enthusiastic freelance writer, Dave has published articles with the Business Communications Review, Wall Street Ticker, ENISA Journal, Information Security Magasine, and ISSA Journal. Dave also spent many years testing and evaluating emerging technology and publishing results in numerous trade publications. He has co-authored two books on Internet technologies and served as an acquisitions editor for a major publisher, and has also provided editorial supervision of web information portals and conference program development for major conference operators.

• Sean Powell - Systems Engineer
  

  Sean joined ICANN in October 2007 as a Systems Engineer providing technical support for various operating systems.

• David Prangnell- Systems Engineer

  David joined ICANN in October 2007 as a Systems Engineer providing technical support for various operating systems.

• Kurt Pritz - Senior Vice President, Services
  

  Kurt joined ICANN in September 2003 and serves as Senior Vice President, Services where he oversees the following departments - Registry, Registrar, Contractual Compliance, IDN, and IANA.

• Khalil Rasheed - Compliance Audit Manager
  

  Khalil is the Compliance Audit Manager at ICANN. Khalil is responsible for implementing the audit related goals and objectives of the Contractual Compliance department. He is primarily responsible for all compliance audits of gTLD registry and registrar agreements. He also serves as the ICANN liaison to domain name dispute arbitration panels and intellectual property attorneys to resolve sensitive trademark issues.

• Greg Rattray - Chief Internet Security Advisor
  

  Greg joined ICANN in July 2008 as Chief Internet Security Advisor where he provides expertise on security matters both external and internal while managing the Security group.

• Simon Raveh - IANA Development Manager
  

  Simon joined ICANN in February 2007 and serves as Development Manager focusing on developing software applications for IANA.

• Christina Rodriguez - Translation Management Manager
  

  Christina Rodriguez joined ICANN in December 2008 as our Translation Manager. She will coordinate our translation and interpretation activities, following the policies set by the Translation Committee.

• Barbara Roseman - General Operations Manager of IANA
  

  Barbara joined ICANN in March 2005 and serves as General Manager, IANA overseeing the day to day operations of the IANA team in managing the domain name system.

• Marc Salvatierra - Manager, Web Content Development
  

  Marc joined ICANN in 2006. He is responsible for front-end content development, content maintenance, and CMS project management.

• Naela Sarras - IANA Project Specialist
  

  Naela joined ICANN as an IANA Project Specialist in June 2005. In her role, Naela primarily works in the DNS root-zone management area.

• Gabriella Schittek - ccNSO Secretariat
  Gabriella Schittek is responsible for running the ccNSO Secretariat. Before joining ICANN in January 2007, she worked for the Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries as Communications and Projects Officer, as well as at Nominet - the country code domain registry for .UK. She holds an MA degree in Political Science from the University of Passau in Germany.

• Diane R. Schroeder - Director of Board Support
  Diane Schroeder joined ICANN in 2000 and has served in a number of administrative roles. She is currently Director of Board Support.

• Cory Schruth - Network Engineer (PGP Key)
  

  Cory joined ICANN in October 2008 as Network Engineer providing technical support primarily to the IANA team relating to computer and data systems.

• Craig Schwartz - Chief gTLD Registry Liaison
  Craig Schwartz joined ICANN in 2006 as Chief gTLD Registry Liaison. In this capacity he is the primary point-of-contact for providing service to ICANN's gTLD registry business partners. Craig's primary focus has been the new gTLD deployment project. And, he also serves as project manager for the registry-registrar outreach initiative.

• Cheryl Smith - Manager, Contracts & Records, Legal
  

  Cheryl Smith joined ICANN’s legal department as Manager, Contracts and Records in February 2009. Cheryl has assumed responsibilities to establish and administer ICANN’s central records and contract tracking databases.

• David Soltero - Network Engineer (PGP Key)
  

  David joined ICANN in April 2007 and serves as Network Engineer providing network systems support including voice, data, video and wireless networks.

• Amy Stathos - Deputy General Counsel
  

  Amy manages litigation company wide and is one of the key staff members responsible for the dispute resolution process for the New gTLD Program. Amy also spends a significant portion of her time supporting the ICANN Board of Directors and, in particular, the Board standing Committees.

• Sara Stohl - Technical Writer
  

  Sara joined ICANN in September 2006 as Technical Writer and is responsible for writing content in presentations, printed materials, and websites.

• Yan Sun - Web Development Manager
  

  Yan joined ICANN in October 2004 and serves as Web Developer responsible for general technical development of ICANN related websites and coordinating with specific web content developers.

• Theresa Swinehart - Vice President, Global and Strategic Partnerships (PGP Key)
  

  Theresa joined ICANN in July 2001 and serves as Vice President, Global and Strategic Partnerships and is responsible for leading ICANN's efforts in the global coordination of the organization's planning activities as well as its work with regional Internet communities.

• Naveed Tahir-Kheli - Applications Development Manager
  

  Mr. Tahir-Kheli is an Applications Development Manager at ICANN. He has 19 years of experience in the field of computer science and applications development.

• Komaki Takekoshi - Accountant
  

  Komaki joined ICANN in October 2005 as an Accountant and is responsible for accounts receivable, payroll, and general accounting functions.

• Joyce Thomas - Technical Project Manager
  

  Joyce joined ICANN in November 2008 and serves as Technical Project Manager providing project leadership and guidance on a variety of technical projects involving cross-functional teams.

• Nick Thorne - International Relations Advisor
  

  Nick joined ICANN in June 2008 as International Relations Advisor where he provides advice and counsel to staff and constituents on international matters affecting the Internet and domain name system.

• Nick Tomasso - General Manager, Meetings and Conferences
  

  Nick joined ICANN in August 2008 as General Manager, Meetings and Conferences where he is responsible for the planning and execution of the three international ICANN Meetings, as well as regional and local meetings.

• Paul Twomey - Senior President (PGP Key)
  

  Dr. Paul Twomey became President/CEO of ICANN on 27 March 2003. Paul's background lends a balance of public/private experience to leading ICANN, including numerous leadership positions in commercial enterprises, government, and in chairing ICANN's Government Advisory Committee. Paul completed work as President and CEO on 30 june 2009 at which time he commenced a specially commissioned role as Senior President for a 6 month period to assist in handover to the new President and CEO Rod Beckstrom.

• Heidi Ullrich - At-Large Regional Affairs Manager
  

  Heidi Ullrich joined ICANN as Manager, At-Large Regional Affairs in December 2008. In that role she is responsible for supporting the activities of the community of individual Internet Users ("At-Large") participating in ICANN at the regional level.

• Karla Valente - Director, Communications Product Services
  

  Karla Valente has joined the ICANN's Corporate Affairs Department as Director of Product Services and Communications.

• Leo Vegoda - Manager, Number Resources
  

  Leo Vegoda is the Manager, Number Resources. In that capacity he develops and maintains working relationships with the five RIRs and their respective communities; supports policy development with analysis of technical considerations; and supports IANA operations with RIR-related technical and communications issues. Leo is currently reviewing the IANA IPv4 registry.

• Marilyn Vernon - Executive Assistant
  

  Marilyn joined ICANN in November 2006 and serves as Executive Assistant providing specific support to the Policy Development team as well as general administrative support for the whole organization.

• Savenaca Vocea - Global Partnerships, Manager, Regional Relations - Australasia/Pacific Islands
  

  Save Vocea joined ICANN in October 2006 to promote ICANN and foster relations in the Oceania region by engaging with various Internet stakeholder groups through information sharing, regional representation and participation as they relate to ICANN's respective responsibilities.

• Brad White - Director, Media Affairs
  

• Kevin Wilson - Chief Financial Officer
  

  Kevin Wilson became the Chief Financial Officer of ICANN in June 2007. As CFO, Kevin leads all financial aspects of ICANN including accounting, budgeting, financial analysis, financial compliance, procurement, and financial strategy.

• Nami Yukawa - Assistant Controller
  

• Bill Ziemniak - Administrative Assistant
  

  Bill joined ICANN in January 2006 and serves as an Administrative Assistant provide general support for the entire organization including purchasing, office supplies, phones, shipping, receiving, and more.

• Mike Zupke - Registrar Liaison Manager
  

  Mike joined ICANN in October 2005 and serves as Registrar Liaison Manager where he manages the contractual relationships with registrars including new applications, renewals and ongoing contractual matters.

In Memoriam Jonathan B. Postel