ICANN Officers and Board Members¹ Statements of Interest Summary relating to ICANN matters (in alphabetical order)

8 July 2020

Officers:

1. Xavier Calvez – SVP, Planning and Chief Financial Officer: Nothing identified.
2. John Jeffrey – General Counsel and Secretary: Nothing identified.
3. Göran Marby – President and Chief Executive Officer: Nothing identified.
4. David Olive – SVP, Policy Development Support: Nothing identified.
5. Ashwin Rangan – SVP, Engineering and Chief Information Officer: Nothing identified.
6. Theresa Swinehart – SVP, Global Domains Division (GDD) and Strategy: Nothing identified.

Board Members:

1. Harald Alvestrand – IETF Liaison:  Software engineer for Google Sweden owned by Google Inc., which is a registry operator for several gTLDs, a registrar and a new gTLD applicant; he does not work with the new gTLD team.
2. Maarten Botterman – Director (Chair):  Stepped down as Chairman of Supervisory Board of NLnet Foundation on 31 December 2019, which is a non-profit aimed at promoting the exchange of electronic information and all that is related or beneficial to that purpose; stepped down as Board member for Institute for Accountability in the Digital Age on 1 November 2019, which is a non-profit aimed at enhancing accountability in the digital age; supported the GFCE global Internet Infrastructure Initiative with the aims at strengthening the Internet through multistakeholder dialogue and promotion of relevant open standards such as IPv6, DNSSEC, etc. until 31 December 2019; supported the Canadian Secure IoT initiative with the aims at strengthening the Internet through multistakeholder dialogue and promotion of safer development, deployment and use of IoT until May 2019; concluded contract with Merike Kaeo to advise GÉANT on the best future legal construct for TF-CSIRT in September 2019; was Chair of IGF related Dynamic Coalitions for IoT until November 2019; member of IGF related Dynamic Coalitions for DNS Issues.
   
3. J. Beckwith Burr - Director:  Partner at the law firm Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis, LLP, specializing in privacy and data protection law and which provides advice to some multi-national clients that have applied for new gTLDs or are ICANN contracted parties, but the advice is not in any way related to new gTLDs; a member of the usTLD Stakeholder Council. The usTLD manager, Neustar Inc., makes ccTLD contributions to ICANN in the amount of US $75,000, consistent with the ccNSO guidelines.
   
4. Ron da Silva - Director:  CEO and Founder of Network Technologies Global, an Internet technology consulting firm.
   
5. Sarah Deutsch - Director:  Director for Electronic Frontier Foundation; on Internet Committee of International Trademark Association; a sole practitioner attorney working part time re: on IP and Internet liability issue for clients that may operate new gTLDs but has not been involved in those client's gTLD issues.
6. Chris Disspain - Director:  His company has a project-by-project consultancy agreement with Com Laude, which advises entities relating to new gTLDs; no current project involves current or potential future TLDs.
7. Avri Doria - Director:  Member of Executive Committee for IGFSA, which is involved in funding support for IGF and NRIs; member of the Internet Research
   Steering Group; serves as secretariat for Dynamic Coalition (IGF) on
   Schools of Internet Governance; signed Memorandum of Understanding with
   Association for Progressive Communications (APC), which includes
   Internet related matters, including civil society participation in some UN and ITU activities.
8. Rafael (Lito) Ibarra - Director:  President of Asociación SVNet, which operates the .SV ccTLD and is a member of the ccNSO; Board member of Edge, which provides Educational IT services; Board member of CasaTIC which is an ICT Chamber NGO.
9. Manal Ismail – GAC Liaison:  Executive Director, International Technical Coordination for the National Telecom Regulatory Authority of Egypt, which operates IDN ccTLD for Egypt and has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ICANN to establish DNS Entrepreneurship Center in Egypt; a work colleague is on the League of Arab States steering committee for the .ARAB new gTLD and its Arabic IDN equivalent, which are delegated to the League of Arab States.
10. Danko Jevtović - Director:  Employed by and co-owner of "Jugodata" ltd which is involved in ICT consultancy and investments; Member of UN Multistakeholder Advisory Group, advising on the Internet Governance Forum; potential advisor to a company that might apply for gTLD in upcoming round; holds de minimus amount of stock in some publicly traded companies that have contracted for or have applied for one or more top-level domains.
11. Merike Käo – SSAC Liaison:  CEO of Double Shot Security which consults on strategic and tactical cybersecurity issues; member of advisory group that supports the work of the Global Council for Security in Cyberspace connected to the Research Advisory Group on Internet Governance; Double Shot Security has a contract with Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) to occasionally provide resources for trainings and workshops; concluded contract with Maarten Botterman's company GKNS to advise GÉANT on the best future legal construct for TF-CSIRT in September 2019; provides cybersecurity-related analysis and writings for CyberGreen.
12. Akinori Maemura - Director:  General Manager of Internet Development Department of Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC); Board member of JPCERT Coordination Center; Board member of Asia Pacific Institute of Digital Economy; member of Independent Review Panel of Internet Society Foundation.
13. Göran Marby - Director:  Nothing identified.
14. Mandla Msimang - Director:  Nothing identified.
15. Ihab Osman - Director:  Nothing identified.
    
16. Kaveh Ranjbar – RSSAC Liaison:  Chief Information Officer, RIPE NCC; Interim-Managing Director of RIPE NCC; in charge of root server operations for RIPE NCC.
    
17. Nigel Roberts - Director:  Director and owner of a beneficial interest in: (i) Island Networks Ltd, which is the ccTLD manager for .GG and which donate $500 to ICANN; (ii) Island Networks (Jersey) Ltd, which is the ccTLD manager for .JE and which donated $500 to ICANN; (iii) Island Networks (Registrar) Ltd, which is a non-ICANN accredited registrar; (iv) CI Domain Registry Ltd and AS Domain Registry Ltd, which are providers of registry services; and (v) Omadhina Internet Services Ltd (Alderney) and Omadinha Internet Services Ltd (Ireland), both of which are concerned with domain name marketing.
    
18. Léon Felipe Sanchez Ambia – Director (Vice-Chair):  Board member of TrustNet de México, which is an IT vendor.
    
19. Matthew Shears - Director: Independent Internet policy consultant; Director of ISOC England.
    
20. Tripti Sinha - Director:  Assistant Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at University of Maryland and responsible for operations of DNS root services (d-root).

¹ Note that the activities of ICANN itself are not listed in this document, which is intended to include items of interest covering the past 12 months through the present.