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<br><div><div>On Mar 27, 2015, at 5:35 PM, Sunday Folayan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Dear Members,<br><br>I am pleased to inform you that the board has completed the process for<br>the recruitment of the Chief Executive Officer of AFRINIC.<br><br>Mr Alan Barrett will assume the role of CEO of AFRINIC with effect from<br>20th April 2015 for a term of 3 years in the first instance. He replaces<br>Mr Adiel Akplogan, who served as the Pioneer CEO, until January 2015.<br><br>Alan Barrett's involvement with the Internet began in 1989, when he was<br>a lecturer in the Electronic Engineering department at the University of<br>Natal, Durban, South Africa. During 1990 and 1991, he played a key part<br>in the transformation of the South African universities network to the<br>TCP/IP protocols and in its connection to the global Internet. He<br>operated the primary name server for .ZA at that time.<br><br>He was a co-founder of South Africa's first commercial Internet service<br>provider, in 1993.<br><br>In 1997, he was one of the four authors of the proposal to form AFRINIC,<br>and he served on the AFRINIC Board from its inception until 2009. He<br>has been a member of the ASO Address Council since 2005. He is<br>currently a member of the CRISP Team, which drafted the number resource<br>community's response to the ICG's request for proposals. He is also a<br>member of the ICG, which is preparing a proposal for the transition of<br>the IANA functions away from oversight by the US government's NTIA.<br><br>He was also one of the founding members of the South African chapter of<br>the Internet Society, and one of the founding members of Namespace ZA,<br>an organisation that was intended to oversee the .ZA ccTLD before that<br>role was taken over by legislation.<br><br>Join me in congratulating Alan, and wishing him the best in his new<br>position.<br><br><br>Yours Sincerely,<br><br>Sunday Folayan<br>Chair, AFRINIC Board<br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)<br><br>iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVFWqmAAoJEH6UvSz6fA25mJsH/Am6cuv8RW8+VzoAubV1+4fF<br>xJbWLgg/pEuUD0OnVSEPcBnhrSGVRgkqVmTDjOrGckFBz9K6cnVgp6ooCdsknJR0<br>hjtezSMv9ynMA+Cya/VPT+8zSfUxMIYFHnSix/H2FJ5hzcEcWMpettYIXnViR4YP<br>/lIu76XkCLCvDrZp4AK48Z7IMhJPe+FSV219rUtlkqeB7vmjd7fxlllhjagthG7Z<br>Cyd+Sc8ddA0M1ipbMkQbGlVt9z1QtqVaFK7QaHTrMJ0b/vyE6nsWsV49lHvOnM0B<br>y71g2sv84moURBGLud54EImuycjIBcLLA/VmhaXSxan7eZDx8mh2JLRS1xAcAQY=<br>=XgeH<br>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>rpd mailing list<br><a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a><br>https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>