[kictanet] [isoc_ke] Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] AFRINIC Board Appoints a new CEO

[Paul M]

Congratulations to Alan Barrett. I wish you well as CEO of AFRINIC.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Walubengo J via isoc <isoc at lists.my.co.ke>
wrote:

> Thnx Mwendwa for sharing.
>
> Congratulations are indeed due to the new AfriNIC CEO, Alan Barrett -
> ICANNWiki <http://icannwiki.com/Alan_Barrett>. I am tempted to add that I
> am very proud of the two Kenyans who shall ofcourse remain unnamed - for
> giving Alan B. a good run for his money  for this top international post.
> It does reinforce the fact that indeed Kenya has  abundant talent that
> compete  with the best globally.
>
> walu.
>
>
> [image: image] <http://icannwiki.com/Alan_Barrett>
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> Alan Barrett - ICANNWiki <http://icannwiki.com/Alan_Barrett>
> Country: South Africa Email: apb [at] cequrux.com Currently a member of
> ICANN's ASO
> View on icannwiki.com <http://icannwiki.com/Alan_Barrett>
> Preview by Yahoo
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>  *From:* Mwendwa Kivuva via isoc <isoc at lists.my.co.ke>
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> *Subject:* [isoc_ke] Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] AFRINIC Board Appoints a new
> CEO
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> FYI
> ______________________
> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
>
> "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on
> higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Sunday Folayan* <sfolayan at gmail.com>
> Date: 27 March 2015 at 17:35
> Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] AFRINIC Board Appoints a new CEO
> To: AfriNIC Discuss <members-discuss at afrinic.net>, AfriNIC Resource
> Policy <rpd at afrinic.net>, AfrICANN list <africann at afrinic.net>
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> Dear Members,
>
> I am pleased to inform you that the board has completed the process for
> the recruitment of the Chief Executive Officer of AFRINIC.
>
> Mr Alan Barrett will assume the role of CEO of AFRINIC with effect from
> 20th April 2015 for a term of 3 years in the first instance. He replaces
> Mr Adiel Akplogan, who served as the Pioneer CEO, until January 2015.
>
> Alan Barrett's involvement with the Internet began in 1989, when he was
> a lecturer in the Electronic Engineering department at the University of
> Natal, Durban, South Africa.  During 1990 and 1991, he played a key part
> in the transformation of the South African universities network to the
> TCP/IP protocols and in its connection to the global Internet.  He
> operated the primary name server for .ZA at that time.
>
> He was a co-founder of South Africa's first commercial Internet service
> provider, in 1993.
>
> In 1997, he was one of the four authors of the proposal to form AFRINIC,
> and he served on the AFRINIC Board from its inception until 2009.  He
> has been a member of the ASO Address Council since 2005.  He is
> currently a member of the CRISP Team, which drafted the number resource
> community's response to the ICG's request for proposals. He is also a
> member of the ICG, which is preparing a proposal for the transition of
> the IANA functions away from oversight by the US government's NTIA.
>
> He was also one of the founding members of the South African chapter of
> the Internet Society, and one of the founding members of Namespace ZA,
> an organisation that was intended to oversee the .ZA ccTLD before that
> role was taken over by legislation.
>
> Join me in congratulating Alan, and wishing him the best in his new
> position.
>
>
> Yours Sincerely,
>
> Sunday Folayan
> Chair, AFRINIC Board
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