Westlake Consulting
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| Founded: | 1999, New Zealand |
| Founder(s): | Richard Westlake |
| Headquarters: | The Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Website: | westlakenz.com |
| Key People | |
| Richard Westlake, Director Vaughan Renner, Senior Consultant | |
Westlake Consulting Limited (WCL) is an advisory firm located in New Zealand that specializes in organizational strategy, board management relationships, governance and structures. The firm mainly caters its advisory services to management staff and boards in both the public and private sectors. The firm has worked with various NGOs and non-profit organizations.[1]
They provide:
- Structural and strategic reviews
- Advisory services and reviews on Governance
- Development workshops for boards and directors
- Evaluations on boards, directors, and CEOs.[2]
WCL and ICANN
The company has been selected by the board of directors at ICANN for conducting an independent review of the RSSAC (Root Server System Advisory Committee). In November 2008, Andy Linton and Colin Jackson, consultants at WCL, joined in the ICANN meeting held in Cairo to network with people interested in various facets related to RSSAC.[3] In the following month, Andy Linton along, with consultant Vaughan Renner, attended the Minneapolis RSSAC meeting, collecting further feedback from the root server members as well as the members of the ICANN communities. Richard Westlake, Andy Linton and Colin Jackson presented the completed review in March 2009 Mexico City meeting of ICANN.[4]
In February 2008, WCL was selected by ICANN to conduct an independent review of ALAC (At-Large Advisory Committee)[5], which was submitted in July 2008.
In 2006-2007, WCL conducted the structural review of InternetNZ (Internet Society of New Zealand)[6][7], which was responsible for hosted the Wellington ICANN meeting earlier that year.
Westlake Consulting Limited has also taken the task of governance review for ‘.au’ internet domain belonging to Australia.