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Alexa Raad' is the founder and CEO of Architelos, a strategy and marketing consultancy that focuses on growth, brand and positioning, and business development for clients within the Internet and DNS sectors. Alexa has the unique distinction of having launched a new gTLD (.mobi) successfully, as well as having guided an incumbent gTLD (.org) to beating the market growth rates. Alexa served as the CEO of the .org registry, the Public Interest Registry, from 2007 to 2010. She has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications, payment, and Internet sectors, including 10 years in the domain names industry. She engineered .org's brand re-positioning and growth, both in revenues and in market share, from 6 million in registrations to over 8 million, and from $35 million to $54 million from 2007 to 2010 respectively. During her tenure, PIR was named a FUTURE 50 company, a recognition reserved for the 50 fastest growing companies in the Greater Washington Area. In 2010, Ms. Raad led what was the largest DNSSEC implementation effort at that time...read more

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LogicBoxes is a Web Products and Consulting Company that specializes in providing private labeled, web presence and communication applications to ICANN Registrars, Large Web Hosts, Domain Resellers, ISPs and Telcos. In addition, it also offers consulting and a turnkey SaaS platform which provides end-to-end business automation to its clients. It is a business unit of the Directi Group, and was founded in 2003 by Bhavin Turakhia. It provides ERP solutions that handle sales, marketing, finance, billing and provisioning automation for domain registrars. Registrars can connect to gTLDs and ccTLD registries through their platforms. It is based in Mumbai, India and operates out the Directi Headquarters, Directiplex. LogicBoxes also has employees in China, UAE and USA as part of the resources it shares with the Directi Group. In the first quarter of 2011, LogicBoxes powered over 5.5 million domains through 85+ registrars in 32 countries. It is currently the largest outsourced registrar platform provider, and one of the few companies that works exclusively in this specialization...read more

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-'''Kathy Kleiman''' is a pioneering attorney, programmer and data security auditor. She co-founded [[ICANN]]'s [[NCUC|Noncommercial Users Constituency]] in 1998. As an attorney she founded one of the first Internet Law practices. Kathy works as the Director of Policy with the [[Public Interest Registry]]; she leads advocacy and policy initiatives in an effort to promote a user-friendly and safe domain space. She was also the organizer of the Privacy Conference; Building Bridges, on [[ICANN]]'s [[Whois]] Questions in Vancouver. The Conference featured numerous experts from Canada's Office of the Privacy Commissioner, [[CIRA]], [[Nominet]], and [[JPRS|Japan Registry Services]]. Kathy Kleiman is also renowned for her research surrounding the female [[ENIAC]] programmers. She is the director of ACM's Internet Governance Project; and has worked extensively in developing Internet policies with [[ICANN]], including work on the final draft of the [[UDRP|Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy]]. Kathy has participated extensively within ICANN, on its task forces and committees. She is currently the Vice-Chair of the [[Whois Review Team]], and the Vice-Chair of the [[RISG|Registration Infrastructure Security Group]]...[[Kathy Kleiman|read more]]
+''Alexa Raad''' is the founder and CEO of [[Architelos]], a strategy and marketing consultancy that focuses on growth, brand and positioning, and business development for clients within the Internet and [[DNS]] sectors. Alexa has the unique distinction of having launched a new [[gTLD]] ([[.mobi]]) successfully, as well as having guided an incumbent gTLD ([[.org]]) to beating the market growth rates. Alexa served as the CEO of the [[.org]] registry, the [[PIR|Public Interest Registry]], from 2007 to 2010. She has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications, payment, and Internet sectors, including 10 years in the domain names industry. She engineered [[.org]]'s brand re-positioning and growth, both in revenues and in market share, from 6 million in registrations to over 8 million, and from $35 million to $54 million from 2007 to 2010 respectively. During her tenure, [[PIR]] was named a FUTURE 50 company, a recognition reserved for the 50 fastest growing companies in the Greater Washington Area. In 2010, Ms. Raad led what was the largest [[DNSSEC]] implementation effort at that time...[[Alexa Raad|read more]]
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