Ram Mohan

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Country: USA
Email: rmohan [at] afilias.info
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Ram Mohan is the Vice President of Business Operations and Chief Technology Officer at Afilias Limited.

He helped write the IDN Guidelines that has been widely adopted by registries worldwide and remains actively involved in IDN issues. He is a member of the ICANN Security & Stability Committee (SSAC), and on the ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom) from its inception in 2003 through 2006. Ram is also an active participant in the DNSSEC Deployment Working Group, and the ICANN President's Advisory Committee on IDNs. Ram has been a member of the ICANN Whois task force. He sits on the boards of various educational and leadership non-profits in the Philadelphia area.

In 2004, Afilias was appointed as a technology advisor to the Indian Government to liberalize the .IN country code domain name. Working in close coordination with government, industry and civil society, Ram led the team responsible for the transformation of the .IN domain from 7,000 names registered at the start of 2005 to 140,000 names in 10 months.

Current Roles

  • Board of Directors, SSAC Liaison at ICANN
  • Technology Advisor at Government of India, .IN ccTLD
  • Advisory Council Member at Internet Society (ISOC)
  • Technical Service Provider at dotMobi, mTLD
  • Member, Internet Security & Stability Advisory Committee at ICANN
  • Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Afilias

Past Roles

  • President's Advisory Committee on Internationalized Domain Names at ICANN
  • Chairman, GNSO IDN Working Group at ICANN
  • 40 Under 40 Alumni Advisory Committee at Philadelphia Business Journal
  • Board Member at Metropolitan Career Center
  • Interim COO, Chief Technology Officer at Infonautics
  • Senior Technology Architect at First Data Resources
  • Engineer, Networking Services at Unisys
  • Consultant at KPMG Peat Marwick

Education

  • Drexel Univ., Philadelphia
  • Harvard Business School
  • Bharathidasan Institute of Management Tiruchirapalli[1]

New

  • Chennai, India - 11.26.06 Ram gets hitched!

References