Jordi Iparraguirre
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| Email: | jordi.ipa [at] gmail.com |
| LinkedIn: |  [iparraguirre Jordi Iparraguirre]
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| Twitter: |  @jordiipa
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Jordi Iparraguirre is ccNSO NomCom selectee (2013-15), member of the board of EURALO since 2013 an former .cat Registry Operations manager (2006, sunrise) and CEO (2006-13).
He is currently providing consultancy and business intelligence to new gTLDs and ccTLDs as well as promoting Internet users' rights and their right to privacy.
Career History[edit | edit source]
Under his direction .cat showed a healthy and constant growth (more than 62.000 domains under management), renewal rates of 82% to 85%, high usage rates and full presence on the street, as well as high information density of the registered domains (metric of domain use). Being member of the Registry Constituency, he served as GNSO councilor (2007-09). On the technical side .cat was IDN and IPv6 enabled since sunrise and was the 1st gTLD to be DNSSEC ready. On the social side, being .cat a community sponsored gTLD, the registry started a Grants program to reinvest in community proposed projects, and an European program, together with other ccTLDs, to bring web content development and use to schools. Amongst other events, the registry organized a CENTR general assembly, the first ever joint CENTR-LACTLD joint working sesions and helped with Studienkreis held in Barcelona. [1]
Prior to .cat, he worked at Hewlett Packard for 12 years in different countries and held technical and management positions in Training, Customer Support planning and Marketing. He has been associated professor at EADA business school, lecturing on Operations management and Innovation (2002-06).[2]
Education[edit | edit source]
Jordi holds an engineering degree in Computer Science from Barcelona Autonomous University, an MBA from ESADE business school and a DEA on Information Society from the Catalan Open University (UOC/IN3).
He speaks Catalan, English, French and Spanish.