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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Dear Empowered Community Administration,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Due diligence has been completed on all 2018 Nominating Committee selected nominees. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">As per ICANN Bylaws, Article 7 Board of Directors, Section 7.8 (a)(i) it is my pleasure to inform you of the 2018 Nominating
Committee selected nominees for the three ICANN Director positions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The 2018 NomCom selected nominees to ICANN’s Board of Directors are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Rafael “Lito” Ibarra
</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">(Latin America/Caribbean Islands)
</span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">– Seat 1</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">, Lousewies van der Laan
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">(Europe) – Seat 2,</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">and
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Tripti Sinha
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">(North America)</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> – Seat 3.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Sent by the NomCom staff on behalf of
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Zahid Jamil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Chair, ICANN 2018 Nominating Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Cc: Decisional Participants (ALAC, ASO, ccNSO, GAC and GNSO) and ICANN Secretary</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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