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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.

Theresa Swinehart is the Senior Vice President of Global Domains and Strategy. In this role, she works with the community, contracted parties, stakeholders, and policymakers to ensure broad and inclusive engagement, consensus-based policymaking through ICANN’s multistakeholder model, and effective, accountable policy implementation. Her responsibilities include policy implementation, review operation, and cross-functional strategic initiatives such as ICANN’s compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. An expert in global Internet governance, Theresa also serves as co-deputy to the President and CEO. Her extensive industry experience, including nearly 20 years as a key contributor to ICANN’s growth and development, gives her a valuable perspective on how ICANN organization can work efficiently and collaboratively to better serve the global Internet community.

Theresa rejoined ICANN after three years as Executive Director of Global Internet Policy at Verizon Communications, where she specialized in emerging issues as well as stakeholder and policy engagement. Prior to this, she served as ICANN’s Vice President of Global and Strategic Partnerships, leading a team responsible for partnership reform, global engagement and outreach, and the participation in international forums. Before ICANN, Theresa was Director of Global E-Commerce at MCI, where she was responsible for such issues as Internet service provider liability, data protection, and participation in Internet-related forums, including the formation of ICANN. 

Theresa has a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of California, Davis, a graduate degree in international studies from the University of Vienna, Austria, and a juris doctorate from American University. She served on the Internet Society’s Board of Trustees and Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Committee. Theresa began her career in international human rights. She is fluent in German and is conversant in French.