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Bolstering ICANN’s Contractual Compliance Team

16 March 2011
By
John Jeffrey

John Jeffrey

General Counsel and Secretary

John Jeffrey is General Counsel and Secretary at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In addition to overseeing all of ICANN’s legal matters, he supports the Board of Directors through his Secretary role. John has extensive experience in the technology and entertainment industries and has managed business functions relating to legal, strategic, corporate, and business development, advertising, marketing, operations, and public relations.

Before joining ICANN in 2003, John was the Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy and General Counsel at Live365, a streaming media and Internet radio start-up. While at Live365, he helped lead a grassroots effort that resulted in the passing of copyright legislation protecting webcasting royalties for small webcasters and Internet radio. John previously served as Director of Business and Legal Affairs and Senior Counsel of Legal Affairs at Discovery Communications, the parent company of the Discovery Channel, TLC, Travel Channel, and others, and at News Corporation on the business affairs and legal teams at Fox Television. He also managed his own media consulting business, Point Break Media.

John holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Dayton and a law degree from Southwestern University School of Law. He has been a member of the California, US Federal District Court (CD, CA) and US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Bar Associations since 1988. He started his legal career as a litigation attorney in Los Angeles.

We are pleased to announce two new hires who are joining ICANN’s contractual compliance team. If you’re unfamiliar with the contractual compliance team, it provides the backbone of ICANN’s enforcement of the rules negotiated with contracted parties.

Maguy Serad, an experienced technology and business manager, has been named Senior Director of Contractual compliance.

Ms. Serad has more than two decades of experience in compliance, technology, program management and global business operations. She has most recently served in senior manager positions in the Information Systems Department and Value UP and Synergy Departments of Nissan North America, Inc.

While at Nissan, Ms. Serad became a certified Black Belt Six Sigma expert, who has led multiple strategic organization projects and cross-functional teams in support of Nissan’s strategic objectives. Maguy is fluent in English, French and Arabic. She will begin her role on April 4th.

Contractual Compliance Manager/Auditor

Carlos Alvarez, an accomplished intellectual property attorney, also joins the contractual compliance team as ICANN’s Contractual Compliance Manager/Auditor.

Before joining ICANN on February 28, Alvarez practiced law in Colombia and the United States for over 10 years.

Alvarez was an attorney in Colombia for many years, where he led teams and coordinated audit activities for over 4,500 companies regarding software piracy. Carlos is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Thanks to Current Team

I would also like to thank ICANN Contractual Compliance team members Pam Little and Stacy Burnette, who have coordinated to manage the team during the international search for the new departmental manager. I can attest that since I started working directly with managing this team late last year, they have maintained excellence within the Contractual Compliance group and have been a part of selecting the new team members and building the department.

Starting in April, Maguy will report directly to me and will begin leading and continuing to build this team, with the full support of the existing and talented Contractual Compliance team that has already been built.

Authors

John Jeffrey

John Jeffrey

General Counsel and Secretary
John Jeffrey

John Jeffrey

General Counsel and Secretary

John Jeffrey is General Counsel and Secretary at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In addition to overseeing all of ICANN’s legal matters, he supports the Board of Directors through his Secretary role. John has extensive experience in the technology and entertainment industries and has managed business functions relating to legal, strategic, corporate, and business development, advertising, marketing, operations, and public relations.

Before joining ICANN in 2003, John was the Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy and General Counsel at Live365, a streaming media and Internet radio start-up. While at Live365, he helped lead a grassroots effort that resulted in the passing of copyright legislation protecting webcasting royalties for small webcasters and Internet radio. John previously served as Director of Business and Legal Affairs and Senior Counsel of Legal Affairs at Discovery Communications, the parent company of the Discovery Channel, TLC, Travel Channel, and others, and at News Corporation on the business affairs and legal teams at Fox Television. He also managed his own media consulting business, Point Break Media.

John holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Dayton and a law degree from Southwestern University School of Law. He has been a member of the California, US Federal District Court (CD, CA) and US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Bar Associations since 1988. He started his legal career as a litigation attorney in Los Angeles.

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