Tag Archives: icann ceo

Mon 8th February 2016
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ICANN taps Göran Marby as new CEO - ICANN names new Chief Executive Officer to replace outgoing head Fadi Chehadé. ICANN announced this morning that it has hired Göran Marby as its new CEO. Marby is currently the Director-General of the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority. Prior to that, he co-founded security software company AppGate Network Security, where he served as CEO between 2002 and 2009. He is a Swedish citizen and currently lives in Stockholm. He will relocate to ICANN’s headquarters in Los Angeles. There will be a ... read more ...
Wed 27th May 2015
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What Fadi Chehadé should do in his final year as ICANN's CEO - Here’s what companies and people want to see ICANN’s outgoing CEO accomplish before he leaves the post. ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé made the surprise announcement last week that he would step down from his role as CEO of the organization next March. I reached out to a number of companies and people in the ICANN community to ask what they would most like to see Chehadé accomplish in this last ten months at the head of the internet group. Elliot Noss, CEO of Tucows: If Fadi were to take practical ... read more ...
Fri 22nd June 2012
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New ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé doesn’t have his possess name as domain name - FadiChehade.com registered today, but not by new ICANN CEO. ICANN announced this morning that software executive Fadi Chehadé would be its new CEO come October. Naturally, the first thing I did was look up his presence on the web. Here’s his LinkedIn profile. Here’s his domain name, FadiChehade.com. Did you click on his domain name? If so, you noticed he doesn’t own it. It was registered this morning by Theo Geurts. And Geurts says he got the idea from me ... read more ...
Mon 18th June 2012
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A few tips to ICANN’s new CEO - Check yourself before you wreck yourself. Congratulations! On Friday, ICANN will announce you as its new Chief Executive Officer. This is a pretty good gig. You’ll earn about a million bucks a year, which isn’t bad for a non-profit CEO. (That’s what the outgoing CEO earned. I assume you negotiated well.) But you have your work cut out for you. The past, I don’t know, entirety of ICANN hasn’t exactly been rosy for the CEO. Now, before Friday comes around ... read more ...
Mon 12th December 2011
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Want to be ICANN’s subsequent CEO? - Non-profit publishes profile of desired CEO. Want to be the CEO of an organization launching a highly controversial expansion of the internet namespace and seeing its budget double or triple your first year on the job? ICANN has a job for you. Today ICANN announced it has selected search firm Odgers Berndtson of Brussels to help it find a new CEO to replace Rod Beckstrom. ICANN has used the same firm previously. It also published a candidate profile (pdf). Among the ... read more ...