Fadi Chehadé, President and CEO of ICANN
Fadi Chehadé's career has been defined by building consensus and promoting collaborative technologies and practices. He has more than 25 years of experience in building and leading progressive Internet enterprises, leveraging relationships with senior executives and government officials across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States.
Chehadé, age 50, is a citizen of Egypt, Lebanon, and the United States. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon, to Egyptian parents and left the then war-torn country in 1980 at the age of 18. He speaks fluent Arabic, English, French, and Italian.
Most recently he served as Chief Executive Officer of Vocado LLC, a U.S. firm that is a provider of cloud-based software for the administration of educational institutions.
Prior to Vocado, Chehadé was CEO of CoreObjects Software, Inc., a leader in new product software development services for both large and growing companies. He oversaw the expansion of the company to include more than 400 engineers and its successful acquisition by Symphony Services.
Prior to his role at CoreObjects, Chehadé served as the General Manager of IBM's Global Technology Services in the Middle East and North Africa. Based in Dubai, he led a team across an emerging region experiencing high growth. He also built and managed a new global business for IBM, providing managed services to large clients in telecommunications, aerospace and retail to improve the accuracy, depth and timeliness of business information visibility across demand and supply chains.
Chehadé founded and has led three companies since 1987:
- Viacore, launched in 1999, was the world's leading B2B process integration hub offering a complete solution of specialized software and services for global 500 companies. In 2006 he led Vicaore's successful acquisition by IBM.
- RosettaNet, a non-profit multi-stakeholder company founded in 1997. Chehadé rallied all the leading ICT companies in the world including IBM, HP, Microsoft, SAP, Nokia and Oracle to collaborate on B2B standards. RosettaNet became the high-technology industry's leading eBusiness standards consortium. RosettaNet adopted a multi-stakeholder approach to define and standardize a complete inter-company process language, enabling the ICT sector to use the Internet for real-time process synchronization between thousands of trading partners.
- Nett Information Products, launched in 1987 to create and develop an Internet-based content management and sharing solution, successfully weaving hundreds of ICT suppliers and thousands of their resellers into a powerful collaborative business web of applications and content. Ingram Micro the world's largest ICT distributor acquired Nett, where Chehadé became vice president of its Customer Information Services Group.
Chehadé is a graduate of Stanford University, where he earned a master's degree in Engineering Management. He earlier earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from Polytechnic University in New York, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.
Fadi Chehadé is also the founder of Nilorado, a youth organization raising funds to support schools for handicapped children in Upper Egypt, also delivering bicycles to boys and girls from needy families in that region who otherwise cannot reach their schools.
Chehadé lives in Los Angeles with his wife of 25 years. They are the parents of two adult sons.
Steve Crocker, Chairman of the Board of ICANN
Dr. Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., a start-up company focused on dynamic sharing of information across the Internet and on the deployment of improved security protocols on the Internet.
Dr. Crocker has been involved in the Internet since its inception. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, while he was a graduate student at UCLA, he was part of the team that developed the protocols for the Arpanet and laid the foundation for today's Internet. He organized the Network Working Group, which was the forerunner of the modern Internet Engineering Task Force and initiated the Request for Comment (RFC) series of notes through which protocol designs are documented and shared. For this work, Dr. Crocker was awarded the 2002 IEEE Internet Award. Dr. Crocker also holds an honorary doctorate in mathematics from the University of San Martin de Porres in Lima, Perú.
Dr. Crocker's experience includes research management at DARPA, USC/ISI and The Aerospace Corporation, vice president of Trusted Information Systems, and co-founder of CyberCash, Inc. and Longitude Systems, Inc. His prior public service includes serving as the first area director for security in the the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the IETF Administrative Support Activity Oversight Committee (IAOC), service on the Board of the Internet Society and the Board of The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC.
Dr. Crocker earned his B.A. in mathematics and Ph.D. in computer science at UCLA, and he studied artificial intelligence at MIT.
Steve Crocker was selected by the 2008 Nominating Committee to serve as a Board Member. He had been Chair of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) from its inception in 2002 until December 2010, and he served as SSAC's non-voting Liaison to the ICANN Board until being selected by the Nominating Committee. His first term ran from the end of the 2008 annual general meeting through the conclusion of the 2011 annual general meeting. He was selected by the Nominating Committee to serve a second term, starting in October 2011 and running through the Annual General meeting in 2014.
Steve served as Vice-Chair from December 2010 until June 2011. At the organizational meeting following the regular ICANN Board meeting on June 24, 2011, Steve was elected Chair of the ICANN Board. He was re-elected Chairman of the Board at the organizational meeting held in Dakar on 28 October 2011.
Sebastien Bachollet, ICANN Board Member
Sébastien Bachollet began his career in 1985 with Air Inter (the French domestic airline), then moved to SNCF (French National Railways) where he led innovative technological and organizational projects focused on information systems. With this experience, in the early 2000s he relaunched and promoted the development of CIO (Chief Information Officer) networks at the national level within CIGREF (Club Informatique des Grandes Entreprises Françaises) and at the European level with the creation of EuroCio. Within this framework, he was responsible for strategic development and networking. As deputy general manager of CIGREF, he represented CIGREF and business users in Internet governance at all levels in France, Europe and worldwide.
CIGREF has been a member of ICANN's GNSO Business Constituency since its inception.
Since his work with SNCF, Sébastien has been deeply involved in the Internet world. He launched the www.sncf.fr web site, the largest e-business web site in France today.
Sébastien worked actively to set up and hold the European Global Event on Domain Names and Address Systems, now known as EGENI Europe, held in Paris annually from 2002 to 2008 with more than 250 participants each year. He launched EGENI Africa in 2006 with ISOC Morocco.
Since 2001, Sébastien has been a member of the Internet Society French Chapter (www.isoc.fr), has served on its board since 2003 and was declared the Honorary President in 2009. He is an honorary member of other Internet Society chapters as well. He was elected European Internet users representative in May 2007 and has been the ALAC (At-Large Advisory Committee) vice-chair since 2008.
A citizen of France, Sébastien has served since June 2004 as the founding CEO of BBS International Consulting, a consultancy specializing in information systems with particular emphasis on Internet technologies.
Sébastien was selected by the At-Large to serve on the Board. His first term starts following the Annual General Meeting in Cartagena Colombia on 10 December 2010 and expires six months after this meeting. He has also been selected to fill a full term, which will start six months after the end of the 2010 Annual General Meeting and will expire six months after at the Annual General Meeting in 2013.
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, Chair of the ALAC
Dr. Olivier M.J. Crépin-Leblond is a French national who has been an Internet user since 1988. He received a B.Eng. Honours degree in Computer Systems and Electronics from King's College, London, UK, in 1990, a Ph.D. in Digital Communications from Imperial College, London, UK, in 1997, and a Specialized Masters Degree in Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge Management from SKEMA Business School (ESC Lille & CERAM) in Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France, in 2007.
Having founded Global Information Highway Ltd in 1995, he took part in many Internet projects, several of which enabled Internet connectivity in developing countries.
Whilst attending all ICANN conferences in person since the Paris (June 2008) meeting, he has taken a keen interest in supporting ICANN's At-Large community. He was selected to be on the 2010 ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom) and was Secretary of ICANN's European At-Large Organisation (EURALO) from June 2010 until March 2011.
He was selected as Chairman of ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), at ICANN's Cartagena, Colombia meeting in December 2010, a yearly term renewed at ICANN's Annual General Meeting in Dakar, Senegal in October 2011 and again in Toronto in October 2012 (this time for a 2 year term). Through serving the At-Large Community, he has gained a unique practical experience in an operational multi-stakeholder policy-making environment, finding and building consensus at grassroots level.
In March 2013 he was selected to sit on the second ICANN Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT2).
He was recently invited to speak in the United Kingdom, Sweden (EuroDIG Stockholm), several universities in Southern India (on matters of IPv6, Internet History and Core Values) as well as teaching at the Summer School on Internet Governance in Meissen, Germany (Multi-stakeholder Governance) and taking part in the third Ukrainian IGF in Kyiv on behalf of the Council of Europe and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in November 2012.
In December 2012 he was part of the United Kingdom delegation to the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) in Dubai.
Whilst Chairman of the English Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC) since March 2012, he is also a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) affiliate since the early nineties.
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Jose Arce, Chair of LACRALO
José Francisco Arce is a Lawyer specializing in law and new technologies. He also has a specialty in mediation and he is finishing a Master's Degree in Law and Legal Argument. He is professor of postgraduate courses in Law and Technology and a graduate of the National University of Córdoba, Argentina.
Jose originally participated in ICANN as a member of the At-Large Community on the Internet Corporation for Assigning Names and Numbers (ICANN/ALAC) from November 2009 to November 2013 and as theChair of LACRALO since 2010 for three terms.
Jose's first ICANN meeting was in Cartagena, Colombia in December of 2010 and he has been an ICANN Fellow twice.
He is member of the Argentinean Civil Society call "Law, Economics and Business in the Information Society (AGEAI DENSI) since its inception and has been a member of its Board since 2006. He participated in Azerbaijan's IGF and the last 3 LACIGF. Jose was also responsible for assisting with the organization of the last LACIGF in Córdoba, Argentina in 2013.
He is also a global member of ISOC, and he completed the course Next Generation Leaders, the Internet Governance Capacity Building Program of the Diplo Foundation, and the South Summer School on Internet Governance.
Jose works in the Judiciary of Córdoba, Argentina, were he is in charge of the "legal Internet" office and is responsible for performing criminal investigations that take place on the Internet.
He is the creator of two local programs for digital literacy. One to teach safe navigation on the Internet, addressed for primary and secondary schools, and another for unemployed people.
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Sylvia Herlein-Leite, Secretary of LACRALO
Sylvia Herlein Leite is the current Latin American and Caribbean Regional Organization (LACRALO) Secretary for the period 2012-2014.
In 2009 she was appointed as a member of the Advisory Committee At-Large (ALAC) from the LACRALO at the 1st the At-Large Summit (ATLAS I), which took place in Mexico City, Mexico.
She was the first female ALAC member and female Secretary of the LACRALO region.
Sylvia brings the experience and knowledge of Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries as well as the ability to facilitate consensus-building with the community of Internet in Latin America, from her work as an active member of LACRALO.
The positions in which Sylvia serves on a voluntary basis include being a founding member, the Chief Financial Officer, Chief International Affairs Officer of Internauta Brasil Association of Internet Users in Brazil since 2005.
Internauta Brasil is an organization that fights for digital inclusion of the Brazilian people, including organizing courses upon with telecentres, information sharing, and ICT communication technologies for disadvantaged communities. Its main focus is the public adult working age and elderly people. These activities are especially focused on the participation of Civil Society in the information society and how this participation can be improved. The volunteer members of Internauta Brasil firmly believe that the use of the Internet is a right of all members of society regardless of their social and economic status. It is on this basis that Internauta Brasil carries out all its work.
Sylvia also works voluntarily as Executive Secretary in Nexti, organization of the Executive in Brazil TI. Charge to that agreed by a vote of members in 2009. And it is also Secretary of FLUI, Federation of associations of Latin America Interent users since 2007.
Sylvia works as a language consultant and business in her own enterprise: Pronto! Consultoria Linguistica; advising mercosur companies on issues of franchising and cultural idiosyncrasies for the installation of them in other region's countries. Sylvia is also teacher and translator of Spanish-Portuguese.
Sylvia's academic training includes a Bachelor's Degree in Tourism and a Spanish-Portuguese Translator Degree from the Instituto Cervantes of Spain.
She is an Argentine and a Brazilian citizen.
Natalia Encisco, LACRALO ALAC Member
Natalia is an attorney at Law (1999) and Public Notary (2000) from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción.LL.M in Information Technology & Telecommunication Law. University of Strathclyde. UK (2003); Mediator (2005) by the Primer Centro Institucional de Mediación of Colegio de Escribanos de Buenos Aires and Centro de Mediación del Colegio de Escribanos del Paraguay. She is also the Founder of the Asociación Paraguaya de Derecho Informático y Technologic (APADIT), a member of the Colegio de Escribanos del Paraguay, and the ISOC Chapter Paraguay founder and promoter.
Carlton Samuels, LACRALO ALAC Member
Carlton has an extensive portfolio of work in the areas of Organizational Transformation with the strategic use of ICTs, Internet Governance, corporate governance reform and technology in education. He is a member of the Expert Working Group charged with devising the next generation registration data directory services for the Internet, a Vice-Chair of ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), a foundation member and the inaugural Secretary for the Latin America and Caribbean Regional At-Large Advisory Organization (LACRALO) of ICANN. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee for the Jamaica Library and Information Network (JAMLIN) in Jamaica and chairs its subcommittee reviewing the terms and conditions of service for librarians and information professionals in the public sector, member of the Board Committee for ICT Governance HEART/NTA, Director of the Caribbean Internet Forum, a member of ICT4D Jamaica. He was recently appointed by the Cabinet of the Government of Jamaica to chair the National ICT Advisory Council of Jamaica.
His industry experience covers telecommunications, financial services, strategic management consulting, higher education and technology service delivery. He was formerly the Chief Information Officer & University Director of IT at The University of the West Indies, Member of the CARICOM ICT Advisory Committee, Member of the board of e-Learning Jamaica Company, an Advisory Board member for the Microsoft Partners in Learning initiative and member of the Information Management Committee of the Scientific Research Council (SRC).
Carlton works principally as an international consultant in the areas of governance, information and communication technologies in development with a focus on business strategy development, ICT policy development, telecommunications regulatory frameworks, business process re-engineering and ICTs in education. He also teaches Information Science as an adjunct in the Department of Library and Information Studies, the Faculty of Humanities and Education at the UWI, Mona.