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

[Lucy.Nichols at nokia.com]

 Fantastic news!

Lucy

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org 
>[mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of ext Paul Twomey
>Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:31 PM
>To: council at gnso.icann.org
>Cc: 'Paul Twomey'
>Subject: [council] Attention Chair, GNSO Council - Appointment 
>of Denise Michel as Vice President, Policy Development
>
>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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>www.icann.org
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