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'''Jordi Iparraguirre''' is the Former .CAT Registry Operations manager and current CEO.<ref>[http://www.icann-studienkreis.net/puntcat.pdf icann-studienkreis.net]</ref> Jordi has been tinkering with modems, networks and computers since the '80s and got flashed by [[EARN]], [[BitNET]], [[USEnet]] and the Internet in the early '90s.

'''Jordi Iparraguirre''' is [[ccNSO]] [[NomCom]] selectee (2013-15), member of the board of [[EURALO]] since 2013 an  former [[.cat]] Registry Operations manager (2006, Sunrise) and CEO (2006-13). He is also member of the Catalan chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-CAT) since 1997 and it's Vicepresident (2009-11) and President (2013-15).

Prior to .CAT, he worked at Hewlett Packard for 12 years in different countries and held technical and management positions in Training, Customer Support planning and Marketing. He is associated professor at EADA business school, lecturing on Operations management and Innovation since 2002.

 

 

 

Under his direction [[.cat]] showed a healthy and constant growth (more than 62.000 domains under management), renewal rates of 85%, high usage rates and full presence on the street, as well as high information density of the registered domains (metric of domain use). Being a member of the Registry Constituency, he served as [[GNSO]] councilor (2007-09). On the technical side .cat was IDN and IPv6 enabled since sunrise and was the 1st gTLD to be DNSSEC ready. On the social side, being .cat a community-sponsored gTLD, the registry started a Grants program to reinvest in community proposed projects, and a European program, together with other ccTLDs, to bring web content development and use to schools. Amongst other events, the registry organized a [[CENTR]] general assembly (2009), the first-ever joint CENTR-[[LACTLD]] marketing working sessions (2013) and was a local sponsor for Studienkreis 2010 <ref>[http://www.icann-studienkreis.net/ icann-studienkreis.net]</ref> held in Barcelona.  

=== Education ===

Prior to [[.cat]], he worked at Hewlett Packard for 12 years in different countries and held technical and management positions in Training, Customer Support planning and Marketing. He has been an associated professor at EADA business school, lecturing on Operations management and Innovation (2002-06).<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=4707847&authType=name&authToken=p_09&locale=en_US&pvs=pp&pohelp=&trk=ppro_viewmore linkedin]</ref>

Jordi holds an engineering degree on Computer Science from Barcelona Autonomous University, an MBA from ESADE business school and a DEA on Information Society from the Catalan Open University (UOC). He speaks Catalan, English, French and Spanish.

Jordi holds an engineering degree in Computer Science from Barcelona Autonomous University, an MBA from ESADE business school and a DEA on Information Society from the Catalan Open University (UOC/IN3).

Operations manager at Fundació puntCAT (.cat top level domain registry)

* "Elements for a successful gTLD: Lessons from the .cat experience for new community gTLDs"; Iparraguirre, Jordi; The Telecommunications Journal of Australia, [http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/ir/onlinejournals/tja/#v63n3 Vol 63, No 3 (2013)]

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