[AfrICANN-discuss] AFRINIC Board Appoints a new CEO

[Vika Mpisane]

Congratulations, Alan!

Regards,

Vika Mpisane  |  ZADNA  |  +27 11 314 0077 ext. 602




On 2015/03/27, 16:35, "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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