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Matt Serlin

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Country: USA
Email: matt.serlin[at]markmonitor.com
LinkedIn:    [Matt Serlin Matt Serlin]

Matt Serlin is the Director of Operation and Product Management of MarkMonitor, a company engaged in providing online brand protection such as anti-piracy, anti-fraud, domain management and advisory services. As director, he oversees and works closely with stakeholders to ensure that the company's domain name protection services is at paced on a global level. He represents the company to the activities and meetings of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers particularly to the GNSO Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG).

Education

Serlin received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from the University of Pittsburg.

Career History

Serlin started his career in the field of Information Technology and Services Industry as Operations Supervisor for Scopus Technology in 1997. After serving the company for one year, he moved to Siebel Systems and worked as Operations Manager for three years until 2000. He also worked for Mobileum as Operations Manager until 2001. In 2002, he was hired by MarkMonitor as Director of Operations and Product Management.[1]

ICANN Involvement

Matt Serlin is the current Vice-chairman and CTO of the Registrar Stakeholder Group of the Generic Names Supporting Organization of the ICANN. Prior to election on November 22, 2011, Serlin served as secretary of the RrSG since June 1, 2009. As Vice-chairman of the constituency, Serlin has the authority to assume the leadership and responsibilities of the chairman in his absence. He is also responsible in monitoring reports regarding the technical problems related to the Domain Name System (DNS) as well as activities that are relevant for the benefit of RrSG.[2] [3] Serlin is also a member of the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part B and Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR)Working Groups.[4]