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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sorry chuck must have missed that one!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">But yes I think that this is a very important question and one that needs to be very carefully considered, as a group I think we would need very serious concrete
reasons to have a PTI staff member sit on the board, it creates governance worries and some serious conflict of interest risks in my opinion. Hence to my knowledge it generally not being standard practice.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">-James<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Gomes, Chuck [mailto:cgomes@verisign.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 15, 2015 9:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> James Gannon; Greg Shatan; cwg-stewardship@icann.org; Client<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [CWG-Stewardship] [client com] PTI Board Composition: IANA Managing Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">James,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I find it particularly interesting that you bring this up. When we discussion the possible composition of the PTI Board several weeks ago, I think I was the
only one who expressed reservations about having a PTI employee on the Board and, because everyone else seemed to be okay with that, I dropped it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Chuck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
</span><a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> [</span><a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>James Gannon<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 15, 2015 4:08 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Greg Shatan; </span><a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship@icann.org"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">cwg-stewardship@icann.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">; Client<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CWG-Stewardship] [client com] PTI Board Composition: IANA Managing Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Greg,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">With regards to questions 3, 4 and 6:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">As a matter of good governance practice I would have serious concerns about an employee of PTI sitting on the board of PTI with the exception of the CEO ex
officio.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I would appreciate input from others but certainly in Ireland and France where I’ve sat on boards it’s would not be considered an acceptable practice. And I
agree I haven’t seen this issue discussed and any advice on best practice given to date.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">-James<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
</span><a href="mailto:cwg-client-bounces@icann.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">cwg-client-bounces@icann.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> [</span><a href="mailto:cwg-client-bounces@icann.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">mailto:cwg-client-bounces@icann.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Greg Shatan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 15, 2015 8:15 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> </span><a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship@icann.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">cwg-stewardship@icann.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">; Client<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [client com] PTI Board Composition: IANA Managing Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">All:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">In the course of discussing the composition of the "inside" (controlled) PTI Board, I believe we have stated that three seats would be appointed by ICANN, with two being unspecified ICANN
employees and one being the "IANA Managing Director." I've been asked to clarify who this IANA Managing Director is (since this title does not currently exist). Specifically:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">1. Will the IANA Managing Director be an employee of ICANN or of PTI? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">2. Is this intended to be the person in the role currently held by Elise Gerich (currently a VP of ICANN for IANA and Technical Operations)? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">3. If this person is an employee of PTI and not ICANN, does that still qualify for purposes of making it an inside board (keeping in mind that ICANN does not "own" PTI, and that the only
reason this person is controlled by ICANN is because ICANN controls PTI (which creates a circularity of reasoning))?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">4. Can this person be an employee of ICANN
<u>and</u> PTI (at least so that question 3 is resolved)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Some next level questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">5. Why are we calling this person a "Managing Director," which is not commonly used in US non-profit corporations to my experience? (The typical senior board-appointed offices are President,
Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. Managing Director seems to show up primarily in investment banks and other financial services entities. If this person is intended to be at the helm of PTI, we should use the term President.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">6. How will the board handle matters related to this person (compensation, etc.)? If she recuses herself, there will only be 4 directors voting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">I look forward to clarification and apologize if this is clear somewhere and I missed it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Greg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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