[council] ICANN hires weight loss guru as vice president?

[Rosette, Kristina]

All,


(With credit to Kevin Murphy at DomainIncite for breaking the story)  ICANN has reportedly hired "a psychotherapist with a distinctly Buddhist bent who has previously specialized in weight loss" as Vice President for Organizational Effectiveness.  http://domainincite.com/; http://www.icann.org/en/general/staff.html.
ICANN has gone without a Director of Compliance for almost 9 months and the GNSO Council is being told that no new policy work should be initiated because of staff workload, yet ICANN focuses its resources on hiring a VP for Organizational Effectiveness?  Unbelievable and inexcusable.  Does anyone believe the organizational effectiveness has improved since Mr. Levinson was hired?
I propose we raise this example of misplaced organizational priorities with the Board.  I'm willing to sacrifice my GAC question to do so.
Comments?
K

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