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ICANN Officer and Board Member¹ Statements of Interest Summary relating to ICANN matters (in alphabetical order)

19 January 2022

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. Alan Barrett – Director: Software consultant; member of the AFRINIC Reform Committee; administrator for alt.za.
  3. Maarten Botterman – Director (Chair): Supports the GFCE Foundation in its 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.; member of IGF related Dynamic Coalitions for DNS Issues and IoT.
  4. J. Beckwith (Becky) Burr - Director: Partner at the law firm Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis, LLP, specializing in privacy and data protection law. Harris, Witshire advises numerous multi-national clients, some of which applied for new gTLDs during the 2012 New gTLD round. This advice was and is not in any way related to new gTLDs, however. Becky is a member of the usTLD Stakeholder Council, which provides policy advice to the usTLD manager, Registry Services LLC, a GoDaddy Subsidiary, which makes ccTLD contributions to ICANN consistent with the ccNSO guidelines.
  5. Edmon Chung – Director: Chief Executive Officer and Board Director of DotAsia Organisation (DotAsia), which operates .ASIA under contract with ICANN; DotAsia supports Macau government in operation of .MO ccTLD; stakeholder in and director of ER3 Ltd., an investor in Namesphere, which is a DotAsia affiliated company that supports new gTLD initiatives and which holds stakes in many new gTLD operators as well as a front-end registry service provider for other TLDs; Board member of Namesphere, Global Website Asia Ltd., Global Website TLD Asia Ltd, Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council, DotKids Foundation Ltd. and BOX Inc., all of which operate TLDs under contract with ICANN; DotAsia is a member of Internet Society; member of IEEE and IEEE Working Group on Algorithmic Bias P7003; DotAsia is working with Internet Society (ISOC) Hong Kong to organize annual ICANN event with ICANN; DotAsia subsidizes maintenance of ICG website (ianacg.org); DotAsia and Namesphere involved in civil litigation re: .SPA and .BOX and he is a named defendant; James Galvin (SSAC liaison to ICANN Board), Akram Atallah (former ICANN executive and current Donuts' CEO) and Ram Mohan (former ICANN Board member) are executives at Afilias (owned by Donuts), which DotAsia contracts with as the backend registry services provider and partner; Akinori Maemura is General Manager of the Internet Development Department at JPNIC, which is a stakeholder of Japan Registry Services (JPRS), and JPRS is a member of DotAsia; Akinori also serves on the Executive Council of APNIC, a Regional Internet Registry and member of DotAsia; ICANN's Managing Director of Brussels office is on Executive Committee of IGFSA for which DotAsia serves as contracted Secretariat; Director of ISOC Hong Kong.
  6. 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 clients' gTLD issues.
  7. Avri Doria - Director: Serves as secretariat for Dynamic Coalition on Schools of Internet Governance; signed Memorandum of Understanding with Association for Progressive Communications, which includes Internet related matters, including civil society participation in some UN and ITU activities.
  8. James Galvin – SSAC Liaison: Director, Strategic Relationships and Technical Standards for Donuts, Inc., the parent of registry operators of numerous TLDs that are under contract with ICANN, and which acquired his former employer, Afilias USA, in late 2020; Afilias (owned by/related to Donuts, Inc.) contracts with DotAsia, of which Edmon Chung is a CEO and Board Director, to provide backend registry services provider and partner; actively engaged in technical standards development in the Internet Engineering Task Force.
  9. Manal Ismail – GAC Liaison: Chief Expert, Internet Policies 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; 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. Akinori Maemura - Director: General Manager of Internet Development Department of Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC), which has a principal business of not-for-profit Internet Promotion funded by member donations and a number of members are gTLD registry operators and which is a stakeholder of Japan Registry Services (JPRS), a member of DotAsia (headed by Edmon Chung); serves on Executive Council of APNIC, a Regional Internet Registry and member of DotAsia.
  12. Göran Marby - Director: Nothing identified.
  13. Mandlesilo (Mandla) Msimang - Director: Chairperson of Pygma Consulting, which provides ICT regulatory and policy advisory services.
  14. Ihab Osman - Director: Nothing identified.
  15. Patricio Poblete – Director: Director (CEO) of NIC Chile, the ccTLD manager for .CL. NIC Chile is a center of the Faculty of Physical an Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile; NIC Chile makes an annual voluntary contribution to ICANN in accordance with ccNSO guidelines.
  16. Kaveh Ranjbar – RSSAC Liaison: Chief Information Officer, RIPE NCC; in charge of root server operations for RIPE NCC.
  17. León Felipe Sánchez Ambia – Director (Vice-Chair): Board member of TrustNet de México, which is an IT vendor.
  18. Katrina Sataki – Director: Employee of the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia where she is the CEO of the Network Solutions Department, the ccTLD Manager of .LV. The manager of .LV makes an annual voluntary contribution to ICANN in accordance with ccNSO guidelines.
  19. Matthew Shears - Director: Independent Internet policy consultant; contractor for ISOC; Director of ISOC England.
  20. Tripti Sinha - Director: Assistant Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, as well as Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads, at University of Maryland and responsible for operations of DNS root services (d-root).

1 Note that the activities of ICANN org itself are not listed in this document, which is intended to include items covering the past 12 months through the present. This document is intended to cover only items that relate to ICANN or may be of interest to the ICANN community and not things in which a Board member may be involved unrelated to ICANN.

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