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

31 January 2023

Officers:

1. Xavier Calvez – SVP, Planning and Chief Financial Officer: Nothing identified.
2. Sally Costerton – Senior Advisor to President and SVP, Global Stakeholder Engagement &Interim President and Chief Executive Officer.
3. John Jeffrey – General Counsel and Secretary: 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: 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.; Director of GNKS Consult BV.
4. J. Beckwith (Becky) Burr – Director: Partner at the law firm HWG, LLP, specializing in privacy and data protection law and which provides advice to some multi-national clients that have applied for new gTLDs during 2012 round or may apply in future rounds or are ICANN contracted parties, but the advice is not in any way related to ICANN; member of usTLD Stakeholder Council.
5. Christopher Chapman – Director: Professional director at Nihilent Australia Pty Ltd. (management consultants in digital transformation), and International Institute of Communications (a hosting platform/organization for the discussion of media and communications).
6. Edmon Chung – Director: Chief Executive Officer and Board Director of DotAsia Organisation (DotAsia), which operates .ASIA under contract with ICANN; both his partner in life and sister also work for DotAsia; Board Director of ISOC Hong Kong; a stakeholder in and director of ER3 Ltd., an investor as part of the Employees pool from DotAsia in Namesphere, which is a DotAsia affiliated company that supports new gTLD initiatives and which holds stakes in various new gTLD operators as well as serve as a front-end registry service provider for other TLDs; Board member of Namesphere, Global Website Asia Ltd., Global Website TLD Asia Ltd, DotKids Foundation Ltd. and .BOX Inc., all of which operate TLDs under contract with ICANN; member of IEEE and IEEE Working Group on Algorithmic Bias P7003; DotAsia supports the Macau government in the operation of the .MO ccTLD through the entity HNET Asia; DotAsia is a member of the Registries Stakeholder Group and Internet Society; DotAsia serves as the Secretariat for the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF); DotAsia is working with Internet Society (ISOC) Hong Kong to organize annual ICANN event with ICANN; DotAsia subsidizes maintenance of the ICG website (ianacg.org); DotAsia and Namesphere are 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 CEO of Donuts/Identity Digital) and Ram Mohan (former ICANN Board member) are executives at Afilias (owned by/related to Donuts/Identity Digital), which DotAsia contracts with as the backend registry services provider; DotAsia and Afilias/Identity Digital has a stake in Global Website Asia Ltd. and Global Website TLD Asia Ltd.; ICANN's Managing Director of the Brussels office is on the Executive Committee of IGFSA for which DotAsia serves as contracted Secretariat.
7. Sally Costerton – Director: Nothing identified.
8. 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; Director of Edgemoor Research Institute.
9. Avri Doria – Director: Serves as secretariat for Dynamic Coalition on Schools of Internet Governance.
10. James Galvin – SSAC Liaison: Director, Technical Policy and Standards for Identity Digital, 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; actively engaged in technical standards development in the Internet Engineering Task Force; Akram Atallah (former ICANN executive and current CEO of Donuts/Identity Digital) and Ram Mohan (former ICANN Board member) are executives at Afilias (owned by/related to Donuts/Identity Digital); DotAsia Organisation, of which Edmon Chung (current ICANN Board Director) is the Chief Executive Officer and Board Director, contracts with Identity Digital to provide backend registry services; DotAsia and Afilias/Identity Digital has a stake in Global Website Asia Ltd. and Global Website TLD Asia Ltd.
11. Wes Hardaker – RSSAC Liaison: Senior Computer Scientist for the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute; Board member of the Internet Architecture Board which is standards organization leadership role.
12. 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.
13. Danko Jevtović – Director (Vice-Chair): Employed by and co-owner of "Jugodata" ltd which is involved in ICT consultancy and investments; member of the Board of Governors of the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry Foundation, which is a ccTLD registry; 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.
14. Christian Kaufmann - Director: Vice President of Technology at Akamai; Board member of RIPE NCC, a Regional Internet Registry, until end of May 2023; Board member of TOR Project, which helps advance human rights and privacy on the Internet through free software.
15. Patricio Poblete – Director: Director (CEO) of NIC Chile, the ccTLD manager for .CL. NIC Chile is a center of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile; NIC Chile makes an annual voluntary contribution to ICANN in accordance with ccNSO guidelines.
16. Sajid Rahman – Director: Nothing identified.
17. León Felipe Sánchez Ambia – Director: 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.
19. Matthew Shears - Director: Independent Internet policy consultant; Director of ISOC England.
20. Tripti Sinha – Director (Chair): 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 itself are not listed in this document, which is intended to include items of interest covering the past 12 months through the present.