AFRINIC’s Board of Directors announced the appointment of Mr Alan Barrett as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Mr Barrett replaces AFRINIC’s founding CEO, Adiel A. Akplogan, and will assume the role on 20 April 2015 for an initial three-year term.

Mr Barrett has been an integral part of the development of AFRINIC and Africa’s Internet since 1989, is a long-standing member of the AFRINIC community, and is a familiar and well-respected face on the global Internet scene.

Mr Barrett has been involved with the Internet since 1989, when he was a lecturer in the Electronic Engineering department at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. Throughout 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 and, in 1993, was a co-founder of South Africa’s first commercial Internet service provider.

In 1997, he was one of the four authors of the proposal to form AFRINIC, and 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 Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship Proposal (CRISP) Team, which drafted the number resource community’s response to the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group’s (ICG) 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.

(from LACNIC News Section)

After an in-depth and thorough selection process, LACNIC’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Oscar Robles as LACNIC’s new Executive Director.

Since Raúl Echeberría’s resignation to the position of Executive Director was announced, the Board has focused on identifying the most appropriate candidate to meet the organization’s challenges in the coming years.  At the same time, in order to ensure that the full continuity of LACNIC’s action plans and leadership within Latin America and the Caribbean would be maintained during the transition, Ernesto Majó, the organization’s External Relations and Communications Manager, was appointed Acting Director.

During the selection process, the Board reviewed dozens of outstanding proposals submitted from throughout the region and sought to identify the person whose profile was most suited to such an important position.

The Board has chosen Oscar A. Robles Garay to address the challenges organization and the Latin American and Caribbean Internet will face from now on.

Oscar Robles is recognized as a leader and expert in Internet governance policies. At regional level, he has promoted the creation of Latin American and Caribbean organizations such as LACTLD (which he chaired), LACNIC and .LAT. At global level, he has been a part of the Numbers Council and multiple ICANN working committees. He has successfully served as NIC Mexico’s CEO for almost 20 years and is part of LACNIC’s Executive Council since 2003, a position to which he will resign before assuming his duties as the organization’s new Executive Director. Oscar holds a degree in Computer Systems and a master’s degree in Information Technology Administration. He has also completed a number of specialization courses on Management, Leadership, and Strategic Planning, both in Mexico and abroad.

Oscar Robles will be serving as Executive Director starting on 1st February 2015 and will work out of LACNIC’s Montevideo offices.

• Oscar Robles – biography [+]

The LACNIC Board reappointed Hartmut Glaser as member of the ASO Address Council / NRO Number Council. His new term will expire on Dec. 31st, 2015.