Cyrus Namazi

Region:	North America
Country:	USA
Website:	http://www.icann.org/en/about/staff/namazi.htm
LinkedIn:	Cyrus Namazi
Featured in the ICANN 50 - London playing card deck Featured in the ICANN 51 - Los Angeles playing card deck Formerly a member of the ICANN Staff

Cyrus Namazi was the Vice President of Global Domains Division (GDD) at ICANN from January 2013 to April 2020.

Career History

From 1995 to 2000, Namazi was Director of Marketing at AMD. From 2000 to 2002, he was Director of Marketing and Business Development at Broadcom; from 2002 to 2005, he was Senior Director of Marketing and Application Engineering at Infineon Technologies; from 2005 to 2010 he was the Vice President of Marketing and Application Engineering at Conexant Systems; and from 2010 to 2012, he was the Principal and Co-Founder at Claro Concepts. He joined ICANN as Vice President of Domain Name Services and Industry Relations (also known as GDD) in 2013.

Education

He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, with honors, and an MBA from the University of Southern California, also with honors.