[kictanet] New Man Takes Over at ICANN

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Fadi Chehadé | President and CEO


Fadi Che [cid:part3.03070807.00030904 at icann.org] hadé's career
has been defined by building consensus and promoting
collaborative technologies and practices. He has more than 25
years of experience in building and leading progressive Internet
enterprises, leveraging relationships with senior executives and
government officials across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the
United States.

Chehadé, age 50, is a citizen of Egypt, Lebanon, and the United
States. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon, to Egyptian parents and
left the then war-torn country in 1980 at the age of 18. He
speaks fluent Arabic, English, French, and Italian.

Most recently he served as Chief Executive Officer of Vocado LLC,
a U.S. firm that is a provider of cloud-based software for the
administration of educational institutions.

Prior to Vocado, Chehadé was CEO of CoreObjects Software, Inc., a
leader in new product software development services for both
large and growing companies. He oversaw the expansion of the
company to include more than 400 engineers and its successful
acquisition by Symphony Services.

Prior to his role at CoreObjects, Chehadé served as the General
Manager of IBM's Global Technology Services in the Middle East
and North Africa. Based in Dubai, he led a team across an
emerging region experiencing high growth. He also built and
managed a new global business for IBM, providing managed services
to large clients in telecommunications, aerospace and retail to
improve the accuracy, depth and timeliness of business
information visibility across demand and supply chains.

Chehadé founded and has led three companies since 1987:
  * Viacore, launched in 1999, was the world's leading B2B
    process integration hub offering a complete solution of
    specialized software and services for global 500 companies.
    In 2006 he led Vicaore's successful acquisition by IBM.
  * RosettaNet, a non-profit multi-stakeholder company founded in
    1997. Chehadé rallied all the leading ICT companies in the
    world including IBM, HP, Microsoft, SAP, Nokia and Oracle to
    collaborate on B2B standards. RosettaNet became the
    high-technology industry's leading eBusiness standards
    consortium. RosettaNet adopted a multi-stakeholder approach
    to define and standardize a complete inter-company process
    language, enabling the ICT sector to use the Internet for
    real-time process synchronization between thousands of
    trading partners.
  * Nett Information Products, launched in 1987 to create and
    develop an Internet-based content management and sharing
    solution, successfully weaving hundreds of ICT suppliers and
    thousands of their resellers into a powerful collaborative
    business web of applications and content. Ingram Micro the
    world's largest ICT distributor acquired Nett, where Chehadé
    became vice president of its Customer Information Services
    Group.

Chehadé is a graduate of Stanford University, where he earned a
master's degree in Engineering Management. He earlier earned a
bachelor's degree in computer science from Polytechnic University
in New York, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.

Fadi Chehadé is also the founder of Nilorado, a youth
organization raising funds to support schools for handicapped
children in Upper Egypt, also delivering bicycles to boys and
girls from needy families in that region who otherwise cannot
reach their schools.

Chehadé lives in Los Angeles with his wife of 25 years. They are
the parents of two adult sons.


[cid:part3.03070807.00030904 at icann.org]
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References

1. http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/chehade.htm
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