[AfrICANN-discuss] AFRINIC Board Appoints a new CEO

[Ghislain Nkeramugaba]

From the Rwanda community, congratulations Alan!
All the best.

Ghislain Nkeramugaba
CEO | RICTA Ltd.
Office: 6th floor, Telecom House Building, Kacyiru Sector, Kigali - Rwanda
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> On Mar 30, 2015, at 07:24, Jackson Muthili <jacksonmuthi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Congratulation to Alan.
> 
> And to AfriNIC Board which has unusually did a good job for once ;-)
> 
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 12:04 AM, khaled koubaa <khaled.koubaa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Congratulations to Alan and to AfriNIC for this great news.
>> Wish you all success and invite you please to count on us for this
>> transition period.
>> With all the best,
>> 
>> Khaled
>> 
>> 2015-03-27 15:35 GMT+01:00 Sunday Folayan <sfolayan at gmail.com>:
>>> 
>>> 
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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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