[registrars] FW: [alerts] ICANN News Alert -- Appointment of Chief Operating Officer

["Nevett, Jonathon" <jnevett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI

 

News Alert

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-08jan07.htm

 

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Appointment of Chief Operating Officer

8 January 2007

ICANN is pleased to advise that after an extensive executive search,
Doug Brent has been appointed to the new position of Chief Operating
Officer. This position is key to continuing to improve ICANN's
operational effectiveness.

Doug will be responsible for finance, human resources, IANA,
administration, conferences, and compliance as well as policy. He will
be based in the Marina Del Rey office.

Doug Brent has a twenty-five year record of management and leadership in
high technology companies in Silicon Valley. Most recently, Doug was CEO
of Packet Design Inc., an innovator of network routing and traffic
analysis solutions. Doug led Packet Design from its inception through
commercial deployment of its products in some of the largest carrier and
enterprise networks in the world. Prior to that, he was Chief Operating
Officer of Packet Design's research company predecessor. Before Packet
Design, Doug was vice president of engineering and acting as CEO at
Andes Networks, and vice president of engineering at Whistle
Communications. When IBM acquired Whistle, he joined IBM as general
manager for small business services, Global Small Business Division.
Doug has also held executive and engineering management positions at
Taligent (an Apple/IBM/HP joint venture) and Apple Computer. He has a
B.A. in economics from University of California at Santa Cruz and an
M.B.A. from the University of Southern California.

ICANN welcomes Doug and wishes him every success in assisting the
organisation achieve operational excellence.