Karla Valente
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| Country: | USA |
| Email: | karla.valente [at] icann.org |
| Facebook: |  [karla valente Karla Valente]
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| Twitter: |  @newgtldsicann/
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Karla Valente is currently the Director of product services at ICANN.[1][2] She also has an advisory role in the New gTLD Program development.
Education[edit | edit source]
Karla holds an MA in International Relations and International Public Law from the University of Amsterdam and has a Bachelor of Law (JD) from Brazil. She speaks several languages.
Career History[edit | edit source]
Valente has been working in the Domain Name industry since 1998. She has established and supervised more than 160 worldwide partnerships. She has also help companies in the matters like global branding and domain name portfolio development. For seven years, she has worked at VeriSign as the Senior Product Manager.[3] In this position she developed, deployed and managed various TLD products and partnerships for the Digital Brand Management Services Group. She has also worked as the Director of Global Service Development of 1GlobalPlace, Inc. She was the point of contact for the International Operations, she supervised the global operations of the company. Additionally, she served as in-house co-counsel for international IP issues, supported the company's acquisition process and transition of intellectual property assets. Prior to joining the TLD industry Valente assisted companies with international expansion planning and provided cross cultural communications training.[4]