Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
| Subscribe: Newsletters & News Alerts | ICANN Blog | Public Comment
| Subscribe: Newsletters & News Alerts | ICANN Blog | Public Comment
ICANN Staff
Mehmet Akcin - Chief Engineer, IT Operations (PGP Key)
Mehmet Akcin has been appointed to Chief Engineer of IT Operations for ICANN. He was hired by ICANN as Network Engineer in early June, 2006. Mehmet 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 staf 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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.
Marc Friedman - Executive Assistant, Global Partnerships
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.
Daniel E. Halloran - Deputy General Counsel
(PGP Key)
Dan Halloran joined ICANN in May 2000. As Deputy General Counsel, Dan works alongside John Jeffrey on all ICANN-related legal matters. Dan is a 1999 graduate of Loyola Law School and a member of the State Bar of California. He has studied at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the University of Chicago (AB 1990). 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.
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.
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.
Jason Keenan - Media Adviser
Jason brings 15 years experience in media relations, writing, editing, and graphic design. Immediately before joining ICANN he was the Senior Writer and Legislative Support Officer with the Premier of British Columbia. He also worked in issues management, and communications with the Government of B.C. and a Canadian Member of Parliament.
Tanzanica S. King - Communications and Publications Manager
Janice Douma Lange - Project Coordinator
Janice Douma Lange joined ICANN as the Coordinator, Project Office in February 2007. Janice brings over 10 years of coordination experience in design, production, and implementation for domestic and international projects, as well as 10 years of Operations knowledge and management. Most recently Janice worked as a design coordinator with several California based Architectural Design Firms on projects in Hong Kong, China and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Prior to that, Janice was with Walt Disney Parks in Florida from 1985-1995 and Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) from 1995-2005.
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.
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.
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
Olof Nordling - Manager, Policy Development Coordination
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.
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.
Marc Salvatierra - Web Content Developer
Marc Salvatierra joined ICANN as Web Content Developer in September 2006. In his role, he is responsible for making ICANN more transparent through its website and online activities. He is currently focused on evolving ICANN.org into a more usable, navigable and functional website.
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 Schroeder joined ICANN in 2000 and has served in a number of administrative roles. She is currently General Manager, Conferences and is responsible for the planning of ICANN's public meetings.
Craig Schwartz - Chief gTLD Registry Liaison
Craig Schwartz is ICANN’s Chief gTLD Registry Liaison.
In that capacity he leads the team responsible for registry relations. Craig’s
primary focus is creating the implementation program for the new gTLD deployment
project. And, he also serves as project manger for the registry-registrar outreach
initiative.
Paul Twomey - President and CEO (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.
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.
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.