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Cherine Chalaby

Cherine Chalaby's extensive international career encompasses leadership roles in banking and technology.

Beginning in London in 1977, Cherine joined one of the world's largest IT services companies, Accenture. As senior partner, he held key managing positions, ultimately serving on Accenture's Executive Committee and its Global Leadership Council. During his 28-year tenure at Accenture, he led several projects aimed at improving the flow of information between financial markets participants, projects that have been made possible by the expansion of the internet. His experience is broad and extensive. It ranges from strategy development through systems implementation and transformational change to running operations.

In March 2006, Cherine joined Rasmala, a Middle East-based regional investment bank, where he held several positions including chairman of the supervisory board, chairman of the management board and chairman of the bank's subsidiary in Egypt. Previous Middle East experience involved projects dating from the 1980s and included setting up a trading and back office system for a local commercial bank, developing a blueprint for an international exchange, developing and installing a local exchange system, and developing one of the first Internet-based brokerage systems in the region.

Cherine has considerable board experience, having served on seven separate boards of directors.

Cherine is a citizen of Egypt and also holds a British citizenship. He attended the French Jesuits School of Cairo, holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University and an MSc in Computing Sciences from the Imperial College of London. He is fluent in English, French and Arabic.

Cherine was selected by the Nominating Committee to serve on the Board. His term will expire at the Annual General Meeting 2019.

Chris Disspain

From October 2000 to April 2016 Chris was the Chief Executive Officer of .au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA), the non-profit company that is the independent governing body/manager of the Australian Internet domain name space and the policy body governing the Domain Name Space in Australia.

Chris was instrumental in auDA becoming endorsed by the Australian Government as the appropriate body to become the manager of .au and responsible for negotiating the re-delegation of .au to auDA. He also guided the DNS in Australia through the transition from an unregulated monopoly regime to a regulated, fully competitive, price-sensitive regime.

He is currently Chair of WGP Global an international corporate advisory company with offices in UK, Malta, Hong Kong and Korea.

Chris was, for 14 years, a corporate lawyer in the U.K. and Australia, and has experience in all aspects of Corporate & Commercial Law including IPOs, prospectus issues, venture capital, take-overs, mergers and acquisitions in UK, Australia, USA and Asia, and corporate tax planning and structuring.

Since 1985, Chris has held executive management positions and directorships in private and public companies in the U.K. and Australia. These companies have included those involved in mining, e-commerce and the Internet.

Chris was Chair of ICANN's country code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) from its foundation in 2004 until he stood down in 2011. Chris has been instrumental in developing the IDN ccTLD Fast Track, which enables the delegation of country codes in non-Latin scripts.

Prior to becoming Chair of the ccNSO, Chris was a member of the ICANN Assistance Group that negotiated with the ICANN Evolution and Reform Committee leading to the establishment of the ccNSO, and a member of and spokesperson for the ccNSO Launching Group.

From 2006 to 2013 Chris was a member of the United Nations Secretary-General's Internet Governance Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group.

Chris was selected by the ccNSO to join the Board of ICANN in June 2011.

Ron da Silva

Ron da Silva is an executive leader, international board member and internet technology expert. He brings extensive experience leading network architecture & engineering, internet backbones, broadband networks, cloud infrastructure, and corporate and internet governance. Over twenty (20+) years of proven business experience, culminating in senior executive leadership. NACD certified Board Governance Fellow.

Ron is CEO and Founder of Network Technologies Global LLC, providing Internet, broadband and telecommunications advice and expertise. He currently serves on the Board of the Internet Association for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Ron brings to the Board extensive experience in Internet governance and policy development, financial discipline, broad business acumen and an understanding of cyber-security risk.

Ron was previously the Group Vice President of Network Engineering, Architecture & Technology for Time Warner Cable (acquired by Charter Communications). At TWC he drove major technology initiatives and was responsible for all networking from customer premise to internet peering, access networks, routing, switching, optical and clould infrastructures. During his tenure with the company, Ron led network convergence, constructed a national backbone, oversaw the implementation of IPv6, helped define and implement DOCSIS 3.0/3.1 and many other major network programs.

Ron held prior architecture, engineering and operations roles with America Online and Sprint. He additionally served in technical and planning roles for Bauer Compressors in Norfolk, Va. while completing his Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics and English at Old Dominion University.

Ron is well known in the service provider and cable industries and is very active in various industry organizations. He previously served as Chairman of the Advisory Council for American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN), co-chair of the L2TPEXT working group in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), member of the Number Resource Organization’s Number Council (aka Address Serving Organization Address Council), is a member of the SCTE, IETF, ISOC, past speaker and participant at NANOG, CableLabs, NCTA. Ron has experience volunteering on the Board of Directors of various organizations.