[council] New ICANN Board member - starting 30 April 2010- Mr Kuo-Wei Wu

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All,

The ASO has announced that that Mr. Kuo-Wei Wu has been elected by the
Address Council to fill Seat Number 10 on the ICANN Board.

(see
http://aso.icann.org/news/kuo-wei-wu-elected-to-seat-10-on-the-icann-boa
rd/ ).


I see that Mr Kuo-Wei Wu - has experience across ccTLDs (board member of
.tw), gTLDs (Board member of .org), and IP addresses (member of
Executive Council of APNIC).  He has the full set :-)

Below is a short biography.

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin


From:

http://aso.icann.org/people/icann-board-elections/2010-election/kuo-wei-
wu/


Short biography

Mr. Kuo-Wei Wu has technical, management and policy experience in
Internet-related industry.

He is the co-founders of TWNIC (.tw operator), APTLD, CDNC (Chinese
Domain Name Consortium). He is currently board member of TWNIC (2000 ~
now), APIA (Asia Pacific Internet Association, 2008~2010) and PIR (.org
operator, 2009~2011), and EC of APNIC (1999~now), TWIA (Taiwan Internet
Association, 2008~2010), and COSA (Chinese Open System Association,
1995~now). He has experience in supervision, financial, and governance.

In regard to Internet-related management, Mr. Wu was the deputy director
of NCHC (National Center for High-Performance Computing) from 1990~1998,
where he was responsible for TANET (Taiwan Academic Network) backbone
operation to serve all the universities, research institutions in Taiwan
and a staff of over 120 people. He is the co-founder of Asia Pacific
Supercomputer Center Consortium (HPC Asia) to lead the experience
sharing over ten Asia Pacific Supercomputer Centers.

He started Internet-related works since he worked for Cray Research,
Inc. (1984~1990), and a vice-president of Yam Digital, Inc. (One of the
leading Internet Portal in Taiwan). When he was a vice-president of
Acer, Inc.. he lead the Internet service business for Acer, Inc.
(2000~2004). He actively involved in ICANN activities (GAC, ALS, ccNSO,
ASO) since 1999 til now. He also actively participated UN/WSIS
(2004~2005), and UN/IGF (2006~2009).

He is the CEO of NIIEPA (2004~now) - a non-profit organization in
Taiwan. NIIEPA provide research and consultant services in Internet
policy and Information security for government, research institutions,
universities, and industry. 

Mr. Wu holds a mathematics BSc degree from Tunghai University (Taiwan,
1975), a MSc degree in Mathematics from University of Cincinnati (Ohio,
USA, 1980), and MSc degree in Computer Science from Columbia University
(NYC, 1982).