<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Have to admit I didn’t see this one coming — DG of a PTT to run ICANN. Wonder if there will be enhanced cooperation with ITU? :-)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 8, 2016, at 17:37, Tapani Tarvainen <<a href="mailto:ncsg@tapani.tarvainen.info" class="">ncsg@tapani.tarvainen.info</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">New CEO has been announced:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/press-material/release-2016-02-08-en" class="">https://www.icann.org/resources/press-material/release-2016-02-08-en</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">"Experienced Technology Leader Named as ICANN President and CEO<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Göran Marby, currently Director-General of the Swedish Post and<br class="">Telecom Authority (PTS) to start at ICANN May 2016<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Los Angeles, California… Göran Marby, an experienced business<br class="">executive and government leader has been named the next President and<br class="">Chief Executive Officer of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names<br class="">and Numbers (ICANN).<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">“I’m delighted to announce Göran as the new head of ICANN,” said Dr.<br class="">Stephen Crocker, Chair of the ICANN Board of Directors. "His<br class="">leadership experience as a technology CEO and start up founder as well<br class="">as his current experience as Director-General of the Swedish Post and<br class="">Telecom Authority will be invaluable as ICANN moves towards the next<br class="">chapter in its history. We conducted an extensive, global search and<br class="">Göran impressed us all throughout with his shared values, operational<br class="">experience and understanding of the Internet ecosystem. I’m looking<br class="">forward to working with him and what I know will be his substantial<br class="">contribution to ICANN and to helping ensure a stable, secure and<br class="">unified global Internet.”<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Marby is a Swedish citizen, currently living in Stockholm. He and his<br class="">family will be relocating to Los Angeles, California the location of<br class="">one of ICANN’s three global hubs.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">“I am very excited to be joining ICANN and joining at the start of a<br class="">new era for the organization and the community,” said Marby. “While I<br class="">know there is much for me to learn, I am eager to work with ICANN’s<br class="">multistakeholder community to continue all the good work that ICANN<br class="">has been doing and am very committed to implementing the community’s<br class="">decisions – both with respect to the IANA Stewardship Transition, but<br class="">also in the myriad important areas of ICANN policy development as it<br class="">fulfills its mission.”<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Marby will succeed current President and CEO Fadi Chehadé whose term<br class="">finishes on March 15, 2016. Marby will join ICANN in May 2016. During<br class="">this time, Akram Atallah, President of ICANN’s Global Domains Division<br class="">will serve as acting CEO.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">“I am very grateful to Akram for agreeing to step into this role and<br class="">providing the continuity and leadership ICANN needs at such an<br class="">important time,” said Dr Crocker.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Göran Marby has more than 20 years of experience in the Internet and<br class="">technology sectors. Prior to joining PTS he co-founded AppGate Network<br class="">Security AB a security software company where he served as CEO between<br class="">2002 and 2009 with a focus on international customers and operations.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">He has held several other leadership roles in the Internet and<br class="">technology sectors including as CEO of Cygate a network services<br class="">company, Country Manager for Cisco in Sweden and as CEO of Unisource<br class="">Business Networks in Sweden.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Marby holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Gothenburg<br class="">School Economics."<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Tapani Tarvainen<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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