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Dear Alan</p>
<p>   Congratulations </p>
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<p>Hago Dafalla<br>
Sudan</p>
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                            [rpd] Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] AFRINIC Board Appoints a new CEO                            <br>
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                                        <td valign="top">Congratulations Alan<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Fiona Asonga <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Chief Executive Officer <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Telecommunications Service Providers Association of Kenya/ Kenya Internet Exchange Point <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Member Strategic Committee of the Africa Computer Emergency Response Team <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">NRO Number Council <a shape="rect" href="http://www.nro.net/about/number-council.html " target="_blank">http://www.nro.net/about/number-council.html </a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">ASO Address Council <a shape="rect" href="http://aso.icann.org/ac/ " target="_blank">http://aso.icann.org/ac/ </a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br
 clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">14 th Floor, Bruce House <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Standard Street <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Tel: +254 20 2245 036 <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Cell: +254 721 713 504 <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Website: www.tespok.or.ke <div class="yqt6951332511" id="yqtfd98638"><br clear="none">----- Original Message -----<br clear="none">From: &quot;Sunday Folayan&quot; &lt;<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:sfolayan@gmail.com" href="javascript:return">sfolayan@gmail.com</a>&gt;<br clear="none">To: &quot;AfriNIC Discuss&quot; &lt;<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:members-discuss@afrinic.net" href="javascript:return">members-discuss@afrinic.net</a>&gt;, &quot;AfriNIC Resource Policy&quot; &lt;<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" href="javascript:return">rpd@afrinic.net</a>&gt;, &quot;AfrICANN list&quot; &lt;<a
 shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:africann@afrinic.net" href="javascript:return">africann@afrinic.net</a>&gt;<br clear="none">Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 5:35:19 PM<br clear="none">Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] AFRINIC Board Appoints a new CEO<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br clear="none">Hash: SHA1<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Dear Members,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I am pleased to inform you that the board has completed the process for<br clear="none">the recruitment of the Chief Executive Officer of AFRINIC.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Mr Alan Barrett will assume the role of CEO of AFRINIC with effect from<br clear="none">20th April 2015 for a term of 3 years in the first instance. He replaces<br clear="none">Mr Adiel Akplogan, who served as the Pioneer CEO, until January 2015.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Alan Barrett&#39;s involvement with the Internet began in 1989, when he
 was<br clear="none">a lecturer in the Electronic Engineering department at the University of<br clear="none">Natal, Durban, South Africa.  During 1990 and 1991, he played a key part<br clear="none">in the transformation of the South African universities network to the<br clear="none">TCP/IP protocols and in its connection to the global Internet.  He<br clear="none">operated the primary name server for .ZA at that time.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">He was a co-founder of South Africa&#39;s first commercial Internet service<br clear="none">provider, in 1993.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">In 1997, he was one of the four authors of the proposal to form AFRINIC,<br clear="none">and he served on the AFRINIC Board from its inception until 2009.  He<br clear="none">has been a member of the ASO Address Council since 2005.  He is<br clear="none">currently a member of the CRISP Team, which drafted the number resource<br clear="none">community&#39;s
 response to the ICG&#39;s request for proposals. He is also a<br clear="none">member of the ICG, which is preparing a proposal for the transition of<br clear="none">the IANA functions away from oversight by the US government&#39;s NTIA.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">He was also one of the founding members of the South African chapter of<br clear="none">the Internet Society, and one of the founding members of Namespace ZA,<br clear="none">an organisation that was intended to oversee the .ZA ccTLD before that<br clear="none">role was taken over by legislation.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Join me in congratulating Alan, and wishing him the best in his new<br clear="none">position.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Yours Sincerely,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sunday Folayan<br clear="none">Chair, AFRINIC Board<br clear="none">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br clear="none">Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)<br clear="none"><br
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