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'''Nick Ashton-Hart''' is the Principal at Consensus Optimus.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart LinkedIn]</ref> | '''Nick Ashton-Hart''' is the Principal at Consensus Optimus. While he currently resides in Geneva, Switzerland, he is a citizen of the USA and UK.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart LinkedIn]</ref> | ||
== Career History == | == Career History == | ||
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| Email: | nah.maillist [at] fastmail.net |
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Nick Ashton-Hart is the Principal at Consensus Optimus. While he currently resides in Geneva, Switzerland, he is a citizen of the USA and UK.[1]
Career History[edit | edit source]
ICANN Involvement[edit | edit source]
Mr. Ashton-Hart was involved with ICANN from 2006 until 2010. He began as a consultant working with the European and African At-Large Community, and was promoted to the At-Large Directorial position in 2007.[2] In 2009, he was named the Senior Director for Participation and Engagement ICANN. The latter position was created following the departure of Kieren McCarthy as the General Manager of Public Participation.[3]
Other Work[edit | edit source]
He was once the Executive Director of International Music Managers Forum,[4] this forum represented musicians at the international spectrum as opposed to the generalization of specific country artists. Some of these artists included James Brown[5] and the band called Heaven 17.[6]
Nick has also worked a consulting IT leadership position in a for-profit company where he would stay in a director’s position for a 20 year career in the multilateral world. These fields would include many different tasks but there was much urban development as well as negotiations at the World Intellectual Property Organization for purposes of diplomacy.[7] Throughout his career he has continually worked as both a non-profit, privately held and for-profit worker as both a director of services and varying other positions within a given ICANN field of play. He even ascertained partnership at the Lansharks EIS, Inc. which paved the way for his continued prolonged career.
He has been the Adviser/Coordinator for Working Groups of Civil Society, Rightsholders and Industry at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights.[8] From 1992-1997, he was the Director of IT at Patti Roscoe & Associates.[9] He has been CCIA’s Geneva Representative.[10]
Meetings and Conferences[edit | edit source]
- Keynote speaker at MusicTank's debate on the proposed Sony BMG merger in 2004.[11]
- Panelist at New Relationships Between Creative Communities and Consumers, hosted by the TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue in 2006.[12]
- Speaker at 6th Annual Meeting of the Transatlantic Consumer Dialog.[13]
Anthropology[edit | edit source]
Nick was the coordinator of an event in 1987 that involved fundraising for the UN International Year of Shelter for the homeless.
External Links[edit | edit source]
Speech of Nick Ashton-Hart for FIA, IMPALA and the IMMF