ICANN Officers and Board Member¹ Statements of Interest Summary relating to ICANN matters (in alphabetical order)
22 January 2021
Officers:
- Xavier Calvez – SVP, Planning and Chief Financial Officer: Nothing identified.
- John Jeffrey – General Counsel and Secretary: Nothing identified.
- Göran Marby – President and Chief Executive Officer: Nothing identified.
- David Olive – SVP, Policy Development Support: Nothing identified.
- Ashwin Rangan – SVP, Engineering and Chief Information Officer: Nothing identified.
- Theresa Swinehart – SVP, Global Domains Division (GDD) and Strategy: Nothing identified.
Board Members:
- 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.
- 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.; 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; stepped down Chair of IGF related Dynamic Coalitions for IoT on November 2019; member of IGF related Dynamic Coalitions for DNS Issues and IoT.
- J. Beckwith (Becky) 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, now Rgistry Services LLC, a GoDaddy Subsidiary (formerly Neustar Inc.), makes ccTLD contributions to ICANN in the amount of US $75,000, consistent with the ccNSO guidelines.
- Ron da Silva - Director: Works for QuantumLoophole which is focused on Gigawatt scale in the Data Center Industry.
- 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.
- Avri Doria - Director: Former Executive Committee member of IGFSA which provides funding for IGF national and regional initiatives; serves as secretariat for Dynamic Coalition 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.
- Rafael (Lito) Ibarra - Director: President and Executive Director of Asociación SVNet, which operates the .SV ccTLD and is a member of the ccNSO; Board member of Mido, which is involved in application and software development; Board member of CasaTIC which is an ICT Chamber NGO; Board member of Conexión, a technology NGO.
- 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.
- 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.
- Merike Käo – SSAC Liaison: CEO of Double Shot Security which consults on strategic and tactical cybersecurity issues; Double Shot Security has a contract with Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) to occasionally provide resources for trainings and workshops; provides cybersecurity-related analysis and writings for CyberGreen.
- 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 registrars; Board member of JPCERT Coordination Center, which is a national computer security incident response team; Board member of Asia Pacific Institute of Digital Economy, which does policy research for the ICT society and economy.
- Göran Marby - Director: Nothing identified.
- Mandlesilo (Mandla) Msimang - Director: Chairperson of Pygma Consulting, which provides ICT regulatory and policy advisory services.
- Ihab Osman - Director: Nothing identified.
- 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 of $25,000, in accordance with ccNSO guidelines.
- Kaveh Ranjbar – RSSAC Liaison: Chief Information Officer, RIPE NCC; in charge of root server operations for RIPE NCC.
- 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. Also a partner in an LLP that was formed to evaluate whether to apply for a community gTLD in upcoming round and He is also a trustee of the Alderney Enterprise Trust (a Guernsecharity), an e-commerce startup incubator.
- León Felipe Sánchez Ambia – Director (Vice-Chair): Board member of TrustNet de México, which is an IT vendor.
- Matthew Shears - Director: Independent Internet policy consultant; contractor for ISOC; Director of ISOC England.
- 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.