Raimundo Beca

Country:	Chile
Email:	rbeca [at] ctc.cl

Raimundo Beca is currently a partner at Imaginacción, a Chilean consulting company; he also sits on various companies' boards, including Puerto San Vicente Talcahuano and Telefónica Mundo 188.

Mr. Beca was twice appointed to the ICANN Board after being nominated by the ASO. He has been a member of the ASO, ARIN, and LACNIC. He has been a member of NIC Chile's Steering Committee and on LANIC's Board of Directors. Raimundo served as the Director of a variety of ICANN groups, including : Finance Committee, which he chaired for two years, the Audit Committee, the Reconsideration Committee, the GAC Joint Working Group, the President’s Strategy Committee, the Structural Improvement Committee, the Executive Committee, and the GAC Board Committee.

Work

Prior to joining Imaginacción in 2003, he worked as the CRO of Telefónica CTC Chile, the Chilean local incumbent telephone company, for 11 years. During his tenure at CTC, the company became the leading provider of long distance, mobile, data networks, and ISP markets.

Prior to joining Telefónica CTC Chile in 1992, Raimundo spent two years as a Regional Expert in information technologies at ECLAC, the UN’s regional economic agency for Latin America and the Caribbean. At ECLAC, he drafted a Green Book on information technologies policies; which included a Decalogue on best practices for telecommunication's privatization, and set an ambitious target of 20% penetration of telephone premises in the region, by the year 2000.

Prior to joining ECLAC, he was the “Chargé de Mission” at the French Minister of Industry for 13 years. There Raimundo led the development of the national online data industry. He was also largely involved, as a French delegate to the OCDE and the European Commission, on the early international debate on the information society, in the late 70’s; Raimundo was thus involved in the first rulings in the fields of data privacy, data security, access to public files, and software’s intellectual property rights.

Mr. Beca has also worked as a researcher and professor of econometrics at the University of Chile, CEO of ECOM, the largest Chilean software house and data processing company in the early 70’s, and the chief engineer at SERTI, a top level French software house.

Prior to joining the ICANN Board, Raimundo has been a member of the Address Council, NIC Chile's Steering Committee, and the LACNIC’s Board.

Raimundo Beca was appointed to the ICANN Board by the Address Support Organization for a term that expired at the annual meeting of 2006.

Governmental Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN as they relate to concerns of governments, particularly matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN's policies and various laws and international agreements or where they may affect public policy issues (ICANN Bylaws).