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On May 1, 2013, at 5:15 AM, "Chris Chaplow" <<a href="mailto:chris@andalucia.com">chris@andalucia.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0B710A">Chris Chaplow</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0B710A"><br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0B710A">Managing Director</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0B710A"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0B710A"><a href="http://Andalucia.com">Andalucia.com</a> S.L.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Avenida</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> del Carmen 9<br>
Ed. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Puertosol</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">, Puerto
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Malaga, Spain<br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Tel: + (34) 952 897 865</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Fax: + (34) 952 897 874</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">E-mail:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:chris@andalucia.com"><b>chris@andalucia.com</b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Web:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.andalucia.com/"><b>www.andalucia.com</b></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0B850A">Information about Andalucia, Spain.</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org">owner-bc-gnso@icann.org</a> [<a href="mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org">mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org</a>]
<b>En nombre de </b>Stéphane Van Gelder Consulting<br>
<b>Enviado el:</b> miércoles, 01 de mayo de 2013 13:11<br>
<b>Para:</b> <a href="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org">bc-gnso@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Asunto:</b> [bc-gnso] New member, introducing myself<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Hello BC members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">As the firm I represent is now officially a BC member, and as I am its voting representative, I wanted to thank this group for welcoming me and introduce my firm and myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">STEPHANE VAN GELDER CONSULTING (SVGC) was set up to leverage my experience as a professional journalist, a seasoned member of the domain industry and an entrepreneur.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">SVGC is a UK-based company operating in both England and France. It has clients in the UK, France, the US, Asia and the Arab countries. It provides consultancy in a number
of areas, including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">setting up companies in France,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">managing Internet-based projects,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">developing clients' online presence and strategy (including domain name related strategies and social media related strategies),<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">lobbying,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">working and interacting with governments and governmental authorities,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">interfacing with registries and registrars,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">drafting targeted media content,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">understanding Internet governance,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">conducting business reviews.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">I am the company's founder and chairman. I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science. I studied at university in England. I am fully bilingual and bicultural
in English and French.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">My first career was in journalism, where I worked as a print and TV journalist for more than 10 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">I then cofounded a corporate registrar in France called INDOM, which I built up to become France's market leader and then sold to UK-based Group NBT (now NetNames) in 2010.
I stayed with NetNames until December 2012. I left NetNames to set up SVGC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">I have good experience of the world of Internet governance. I served as an elected Board member for the French registry AFNIC from 2004 to 2010. I was nominated by European
registry EURid to serve on its Requirements Panel and its Code of Conduct Council.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">INDOM has been a member of the Registrar Stakeholder Group since 2007 and I have been a member of that group's Executive Committee since 2008, when I was elected treasurer.
In 2009 I was elected GNSO Council rep and nominated to be the CPH's Vice Chair in 2010. I was elected Chair of the GNSO Council in 2011 and again in 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">I currently sit on the NomCom as the RrSG's rep there. I have already informed the RrSG Excom that I am now a BC member and that once my current NomCom term ends in Q3 this
year, I will no longer seek to represent the RrSG in any position.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">I am delighted to be a member of the BC and look forward to meeting as many of you as possible in the months to come, either in person or via this list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">I will be attending the INTA meeting in Dallas next week, so if any BC members are around, it would be a pleasure to meet you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Thanks for reading and sorry for this long first email to the BC list ;)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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STEPHANE VAN GELDER CONSULTING<br>
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T (UK): +44 (0)</span>7583 457053<o:p></o:p></p>
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