<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Stéphane</span>,<div><br></div><div>Welcome to the BC. Look forward to your participation.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>
<br></div><div>Nat Cohen</div><div>Riptide LLC</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Marilyn Cade <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marilynscade@hotmail.com" target="_blank">marilynscade@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Joining Chris in welcome to Stephane, It is always helpful for new members to introduce themselves! I think there may be other new members/and would be great to hear from you as well.<br>
Marilyn Cade<br>
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From: Chris Chaplow <<a href="mailto:chris@andalucia.com" target="_blank">chris@andalucia.com</a>><br>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 12:12:31<br>
To: <<a href="mailto:svg@stephanevangelder.com" target="_blank">svg@stephanevangelder.com</a>>; <<a href="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org" target="_blank">bc-gnso@icann.org</a>><br>
Subject: RE: [bc-gnso] New member, introducing myself<br>
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Welcome on board Stephane!<br>
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I am sure you will make a valuable contribution to the work of the BC.<br>
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Best<br>
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Chris Chaplow<br>
Managing Director<br>
Andalucia.com S.L.<br>
Avenida del Carmen 9<br>
Ed. Puertosol, Puerto Deportivo<br>
1ª Planta, Oficina 30<br>
Estepona, 29680<br>
Malaga, Spain<br>
Tel: <a href="tel:%2B%20%2834%29%20952%20897%20865" value="+34952897865" target="_blank">+ (34) 952 897 865</a><br>
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De: <a href="mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org" target="_blank">owner-bc-gnso@icann.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org" target="_blank">owner-bc-gnso@icann.org</a>] En nombre de Stéphane Van Gelder Consulting<br>
Enviado el: miércoles, 01 de mayo de 2013 13:11<br>
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Asunto: [bc-gnso] New member, introducing myself<br>
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Hello BC members,<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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:<br>
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</div>* setting up companies in France,<br>
* managing Internet-based projects,<br>
* developing clients' online presence and strategy (including domain name related strategies and social media related strategies),<br>
* lobbying,<br>
* working and interacting with governments and governmental authorities,<br>
* interfacing with registries and registrars,<br>
* drafting targeted media content,<br>
* understanding Internet governance,<br>
* conducting business reviews.<br>
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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.<br>
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My first career was in journalism, where I worked as a print and TV journalist for more than 10 years.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Thanks for reading and sorry for this long first email to the BC list ;)<br>
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Best,<br>
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Stéphane Van Gelder<br>
Chairman and Managing Director/Fondateur<br>
STEPHANE VAN GELDER CONSULTING<br>
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T (UK): <a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%297583%20457053" value="+447583457053" target="_blank">+44 (0)7583 457053</a><br>
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T (FR): <a href="tel:%2B33%20%280%296%2020%2040%2055%2089" value="+33620405589" target="_blank">+33 (0)6 20 40 55 89</a><br>
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Skype: SVANGELDER<br>
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