[council] Attention Chair, GNSO Council - Appointment of Denise Michel as Vice President, Policy Development

[Paul Twomey]

Dear Bruce,

I would appreciate it if you could pass on the following announcement to all
members of the Council:

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I am pleased to inform you that Denise Michel has been appointed as Vice
President - Policy  Development after an intensive recruitment process from
a strong candidate list  both internally and externally.  Denise has been
appointed by an official candidate panel which included SO Chairs, Bruce
Tonkin and Chris Disspain.

Denise has been contributing her expertise and leadership to ICANN  for over
five years as a consultant and as Executive Director, At-Large.  In her new
position, Denise will oversee ICANN's bottom-up, consensus-based policy
process, including promoting the development and assessment of policy to
coordinate the management of the technical elements of the Domain Name
System, managing support for ICANN stakeholders' policy-related efforts, and
encouraging diverse and international participation in ICANN's policy
process.  Denise will be based in Brussels.

Before her work with ICANN, she founded and led a successful  technology
company that provided Internet-based merchandising and operational inventory
systems, which she sold in 2000.  Prior to starting this company,  she was
appointed by U.S. President Clinton as the Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S.
Secretary of Commerce.  During her tenure there she had broad
responsibilities for creating and implementing that country's first
comprehensive Internet initiative. Prior to her administration  service,
Denise built a technology policy division for an alliance of 3000+  U.S. 
high-tech companies, managed policy and communications for a  variety of
international initiatives at the National Science Foundation, and was
responsible for numerous policy projects while working in the U.S.  Senate.

Denise will be assuming her new responsibilities immediately.  She can be
reached at <denise.michel at icann.org> and +1.310.823.9358.

Dr Paul Twomey
President and CEO
ICANN


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