[council] ICANN hires weight loss guru as vice president?

["Rosette, Kristina" <krosette@xxxxxxx>]

All,


(With credit to Kevin Murphy at DomainIncite for breaking the story)  ICANN has 
reportedly hired "a psychotherapist with a distinctly Buddhist bent who has 
previously specialized in weight loss" as Vice President for Organizational 
Effectiveness.  http://domainincite.com/; 
http://www.icann.org/en/general/staff.html.
ICANN has gone without a Director of Compliance for almost 9 months and the 
GNSO Council is being told that no new policy work should be initiated because 
of staff workload, yet ICANN focuses its resources on hiring a VP for 
Organizational Effectiveness?  Unbelievable and inexcusable.  Does anyone 
believe the organizational effectiveness has improved since Mr. Levinson was 
hired?
I propose we raise this example of misplaced organizational priorities with the 
Board.  I'm willing to sacrifice my GAC question to do so.
Comments?
K