Francesco Cetraro
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| Country: | Sweden | ||||
| LinkedIn: |  [Francesco Cetraro Francesco Cetraro]
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| Twitter: |  @findub
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Born and raised in Rome, Francesco Cetraro currently lives in Malmö (Sweden) and is Director of Business Development in Europe for Afilias, the Registry Operator for .info, .mobi and .pro and leading Registry and DNS technology provider with 17 TLDs and over 20 million domain names under management.
In his role mr. Cetraro has been actively involved in various projects to promote Afilias' range of products in Europe, from domain names and new TLDs to mobile services and managed DNS.
With over 8 years of experience in the domain and hosting industry, he is an expert on domain names and the hosting market: he regularly attends ICANN meetings and other industry meetings and conferences and has also been featured as speaker at several domain- and hosting-related events around the world.
Prior to joining Afilias mr. Cetraro worked at Denmark-based ICANN accredited Registrar Ascio Technologies inc. as Product Manager and Registry Relations Manager.
He describes himself a strong advocate of open source software as an instrument to overcome digital divide and to allow a more equal distribution of resources among the people of the world. He sees his position as an opportunity to contribute to a fairer development of the Internet.[1]
Past Work edit
- Manager of Business Development and Sales - dotMobi
- Product Manager - Ascio Technologies Inc. - Group NBT plc.
- Registry Relations Manager - Ascio Technologies inc - Group NBT plc.
- Assistant Product Manager - Ascio Technologies inc.
- Fulfilment Coordinator - Ascio Technologies inc.
- IT Supporter - Eurocom Teleservices A/S.
- Event Coordinator - Metro Global City - The Glocal Forum.
Education edit
His academic background is in Political Science and International Relations. He studied Political Science at Uppsala Universitet, received a MA from Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli where he majored in International Relations and European affairs, with a focus on EU Regional Development Policies.[2]
Specialties & Interests edit
His specialties include International Relations, Project Management, Internet Governance, ccTLDs, Digital Brand Protection Services, Agile Programming and Partnership Development.
Apart from the professional interests, he likes to play guitar and cook.
Groups edit
Francesco is a member of the Swedish Chapter of ISOC. Previously he has been active in the International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS) and the Malmö Student Choir.
Languages edit
He is Fluent in Italian, English, and Swedish.