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Board of Directors
The PIR Board is composed of individuals who have shown themselves to be e extremely
competent through long and distinguished careers and they are clearly
capable of directing PIR through the transition and through the first
year of start-up:
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Gerry Baraņano (USA): Gerry, an internationally accomplished sales and marketing executive was most
recently VP of Sales for Nortel Networks. Gerry has extensive experience
in marketing innovative products to large established companies in the
telecommunications and media fields. He has also served on the boards
of several non-profits.
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Frode Greisen (Europe): Frode is a board member of the RIPE NCC Association; a former president of
the European Research and Education Network (EARN); and a former chairman
and founding board member of ISOC. Frode brings excellent technical
and infrastructure expertise.
- Lawrence H. Landweber (USA):
Larry is the John P. Morgridge Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been President and Chairman
of the Board of ISOC, and the Society's VP of Education. Larry has been
creating Internet infrastructure and educational programs in developing
countries for years, and helped establish the first Internet gateways
between the U.S. and countries in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
- Alan Levin (Africa), Treasurer:Alan is a noted Internet activist, a network engineer, and a business development
expert. He helped to found and manage CITI (the Cape IT Initiative),
AfriDNS, and Bandwidth Barn (an ICT community incubator and bandwidth
co-operative). He is active with AfriNIC, ISOC’s South Africa chapter,
and AFNOG.
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Andy Linton (Australasia), Secretary:
A network architect and engineer, Andy has served on the Council of
InternetNZ, the non-profit common interest society that is the steward
of the .NZ ccTLD. He has designed and deployed Internet solutions in
Fiji, the Solomon Islands, and Niue, and has been the DNS technical
domain contact for Nepal, Western Samoa, and Kiribati. He’s currently
providing solutions and training for APNIC and RIPE.
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David W. Maher (USA), Chairman:
A partner in the Chicago office of the law firm Sonnenschein Nath &
Rosenthal, David is an intellectual property and communications law
expert, and ISOC’s VP - Public Policy. He was a member of the IAHC
(International Ad Hoc Committee), which provided the foundation for
the UDRP, is a member of the WIPO Arbitration & Mediation Center
Panel of Neutrals, and is a member of the Visiting Committee to the
Divinity School at the University of Chicago. To avoid any appearance
of a conflict of interest, David has indicated that he will resign his
position as VP - Public Policy if our bid is selected.
- Marc Rotenberg (USA):
Marc is the Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information
Center (EPIC), and is Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University
Law Center. Marc serves as Chairman of the American Bar Association
Committee on Privacy and Information Protection, and on the UNESCO Expert
Panel on Cyberspace Law. He also brings extensive experience in non-profit
management.
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Lynn St.Amour (USA and Europe) – Ex-officio ISOC liaison:
President & CEO – Internet Society.
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