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| 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 LACNIC'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.[1]
Work
Mr. Beca has held a number of regional and internationally prominent roles within the ICT industry. In the 80's, Raimundo was the “Chargé de Mission" of the French Ministry of Industry, where he led the development of its national online industry. In the late 70's, Mr. Beca had been involved in the first developments in data privacy, security, IP rights, and public access. He worked with the French ministry for 13 years, including spending time as a French delegate to the OCDE and the European Commission, wherein he was involved in the aforementioned developments. Before this he was a chief engineer at SERTI
He then spent two years, beginning in 1990, as a Regional Expert in Information Technologies at ECLAC, the UN's economic agency for Latin America and the Caribbean. 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.