Ross Rader
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Ross Rader has been the General Manager of Hover.com, a division of Tucows Inc., since 2005. He has been a Board Member of CIRA since 2004,[1] and is the chair of its Board Governance Committee.[2]
Past Work[edit | edit source]
Ross has been with Tucows since the very beginning. He has served as Director of Retail Services at Tucows Inc., Director of Research & Innovation at Tucows Inc., and Director of Assigned Names Division at Tucows Inc.[3] He led Tucows' launch of OpenSRS in 2000. Since 2005, he has managed Tucows' retail operations,[4] and in 2008, launched Hover.com.[5]
Prior to joining Tucows, Ross was the Director of Marketing at Internet Direct and the General Manager at Internet Direct.[6]
He has also served as a member of Board Elections Committee at UMCA, an ALAC Representative for the NomCom, and Councillor of the GNSO Registrar Constituency at ICANN.[7] He is an active contributor to Canadian and international Internet policy and has played a role in the development of several key policies.[8]
Education[edit | edit source]
He received his education from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, the University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business, the University of Winnipeg.
Fun Fact[edit | edit source]
Ross is an active ultra-distance cyclist. He holds the current world record for the fastest crossing of the province of Ontario.[9]
References[edit | edit source]
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