<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; ">Hello BC members,</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; ">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.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; ">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.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; ">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:</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; "><ul><li>setting up companies in France,</li><li>managing Internet-based projects,</li><li>developing clients' online presence and strategy (including domain name related strategies and social media related strategies),</li><li>lobbying,</li><li>working and interacting with governments and governmental authorities,</li><li>interfacing with registries and registrars,</li><li>drafting targeted media content,</li><li>understanding Internet governance,</li><li>conducting business reviews.</li></ul></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; ">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.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; ">My first career was in journalism, where I worked as a print and TV journalist for more than 10 years.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; ">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.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; ">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.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; ">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.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; ">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.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; ">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.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; ">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.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; ">Thanks for reading and sorry for this long first email to the BC list ;)</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; ">Best,</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Stéphane Van Gelder<br>Chairman and Managing Director/Fondateur<br>STEPHANE VAN GELDER CONSULTING<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">T (UK): +44 (0)</span>7583 457053</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">T (FR): +33 (0)6 20 40 55 89</span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Skype: SVANGELDER<br><a href="http://www.stephanevangelder.com/" target="_blank">www.StephaneVanGelder.com</a></span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">----------------<br></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Follow us on Twitter: @stephvg and "like" us on </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Facebook: </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/DomainConsultant">www.facebook.com/DomainConsultant</a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></span><div>LinkedIn: <a href="http://fr.linkedin.com/in/domainconsultant/" title="View public profile" name="webProfileURL">fr.linkedin.com/in/domainconsultant/</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>