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<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;margin-top:0.5em">[[Image:Dirk_KrischenowskiCaricature.jpg|110px|Dirk Krischenowski|link=http://icannwiki.com/index.php/Dirk_Krischenowski]]</div>
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'''Dirk Krischenowski''' is the founder, partner, and CEO of [[dotBerlin]], a Partner at [[HOTEL]] Top-Level-Domain GmbH, and Founder and Partner at [[DOTZON]]. Dirk started his career in various marketing and sales positions, leading national and international pharmaceutical companies. Apart from his marketing duties, he focused on developing global e-business solutions and developing business models for health portals while working for leading European media companies like Bertelsmann. He was also a member of the European Commission e-Business W@tch Advisory Board. He is a frequent speaker at e-Business and domain strategy conferences and teaches on a regular basis about virtual communities at the Institute of Electronic Business in Berlin (IEB). He has a background in biochemistry...[[Dirk Krischenowski|read more]]
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'''Peter Dengate Thrush''' is a barrister specializing in internet law, intellectual property and competition. He is  the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of [[ICANN]], a positon he has held since November, 2007. He was most recently re-elected following the [[ICANN]] Annual General Meeting in December, 2010.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/thrush.htm Official ICANN Biography for Peter Dengate Thrush]</ref> Thrush also currently sits on the [[ICANN]] President's Strategy, Board Finance, Board Governance and Executive committees. During his tenure, Thrush has overseen one of the most important changes to the Internet and TLDs by beginning the process of allowing domains to be registered using non latin characters.<ref>[http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Technology/Internet-Addresses-Using-Non-Latin-Characters-Are-Approved/Article/200910415425926 Sky News]</ref> He has also chaired the Board as they debate the mode for introducing new gTLDs, the [[.xxx]] debate, and celebrated ICANN's 10th anniversary.<ref>[http://blog.logicboxes.com/tag/peter-dengate-thrush/ Blog.LogicBoxes.com]</ref>...[[Peter Dengate Thrush|read more]]
    
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