[registrars] Appointment of Denise Michel as Vice President, Policy Development at ICANN

[Bruce Tonkin]

For info:


From: Paul Twomey
To: GNSO Council


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. 

Dr Paul Twomey
President and CEO
ICANN