[AfrICANN-discuss] AFRINIC Board Appoints a new CEO

[TCHOMI]

Beautiful news indeed... We wish you great success in his new role, congratulations my dear Alan! 

Félicitations et courage à tous les acteurs impliqués à ce processus qui arrive enfin à son terme. Vive la communauté !

Cordialement.

Michel T
 
 > On
 Mar 27, 2015, at 14:35, Sunday Folayan <sfolayan at gmail.com>
 wrote:
 > 
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 > Dear Members,
 > 
 > I am pleased to inform you that the board
 has completed the process for
 > the
 recruitment of the Chief Executive Officer of AFRINIC.
 > 
 > Mr Alan Barrett will
 assume the role of CEO of AFRINIC with effect from
 > 20th April 2015 for a term of 3 years in
 the first instance. He replaces
 > Mr
 Adiel Akplogan, who served as the Pioneer CEO, until January
 2015.
 > 
 > Alan
 Barrett's involvement with the Internet began in 1989,
 when he was
 > a lecturer in the
 Electronic Engineering department at the University of
 > Natal, Durban, South Africa.  During 1990
 and 1991, he played a key part
 > in the
 transformation of the South African universities network to
 the
 > TCP/IP protocols and in its
 connection to the global Internet.  He
 >
 operated the primary name server for .ZA at that time.
 > 
 > He was a co-founder
 of South Africa's first commercial Internet service
 > provider, in 1993.
 >
 
 > In 1997, he was one of the four
 authors of the proposal to form AFRINIC,
 > and he served on the AFRINIC Board from
 its inception until 2009.  He
 > has been
 a member of the ASO Address Council since 2005.  He is
 > currently a member of the CRISP Team,
 which drafted the number resource
 >
 community's response to the ICG's request for
 proposals. He is also a
 > member of the
 ICG, which is preparing a proposal for the transition of
 > the IANA functions away from oversight by
 the US government's NTIA.
 > 
 > He was also one of the founding members of
 the South African chapter of
 > the
 Internet Society, and one of the founding members of
 Namespace ZA,
 > an organisation that was
 intended to oversee the .ZA ccTLD before that
 > role was taken over by legislation.
 > 
 > Join me in
 congratulating Alan, and wishing him the best in his new
 > position.
 > 
 > 
 > Yours Sincerely,
 > 
 > Sunday Folayan
 > Chair, AFRINIC Board
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