[Chapter-delegates] [Internet Policy] Welcome New Internet Society CEO, Kathryn C. Brown

Thu Dec 19 12:36:09 PST 2013

Er Um => her email is listed as  brown at isoc.org  in her online bio here
http://www.internetsociety.org/meet-new-ceo

*Cheryl Langdon-Orr ...  **(CLO)*
 http://about.me/cheryl.LangdonOrr

On 20 December 2013 07:14, Alejandro Pisanty <apisanty at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> since we still don't know an ISOC email address for Kathy Brown, let me
> ask Bob Hinden to convey our congratulations to her for having been
> selected to face the many challenges coming ISOC's way.
>
> I'm sure the Chapters community will be ready to continue and improve upon
> our act once we know what her plans are - and of course, even more ready to
> contribute to shape them with our full due weight and capacity.
>
> Yours,
>
> Alejandro Pisanty
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:
>
>> Welcome, Kathy.
>> Bob, we all hope your choice will make ISOC a leader in the global
>> discussion on Internet governance, will empower the chapters, and will
>> bring more of the organizational members along in the challenging times
>> facing - or shall I say confronting? not only ISOC, but the global Internet
>> community as well.
>>
>> Good luck, Kathy - and, as other chapter leaders said it already, you can
>> count on our support and hopefully you will like to hear our suggestions,
>> support our initiatives, and provide the resources the chapters need in
>> order to help ISOC and the i* organizations work through the very
>> challenging 2014, but also beyond!
>>
>> On Thursday, December 19, 2013, Bob Hinden wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I am very pleased to announce that
>>> we have chosen Kathy Brown as the next Chief Executive Officer of the
>>> Internet Society.
>>>
>>> The ISOC Board conducted a very thorough search over 10 months to find
>>> the best candidate to lead the Internet Society. Through our search
>>> process, we identified and met with talented people from around the globe
>>> representing leaders from our broad Internet community and across a large
>>> number of industries.
>>>
>>> The Internet is facing many new challenges ranging from the NSA
>>> pervasive surveillance, how the governance of the Internet should be
>>> structured, and if the current open Internet model is sustainable.  The
>>> Board looked for a person who can lead the Internet Society to meet these
>>> challenges and decided that Kathy Brown is the person to do that.  She is a
>>> proven leader with in-depth knowledge of global Internet governance policy;
>>> well acquainted with the community, commercial, technical, government, and
>>> non-government organizations that are stakeholders in the debate around the
>>> future of the Internet; and a strong manager.  She has all of the qualities
>>> we were looking for in the next CEO of the Internet Society.
>>>
>>> Kathy joins the Internet Society from global strategy firm Albright
>>> Stonebridge Group, where she was a senior advisor.  For more than a decade
>>> prior, Kathy was Senior Vice President for Policy Development and Corporate
>>> Responsibility at Verizon.  In that role, she helped Verizon identify and
>>> navigate emerging digital issues and led its global corporate
>>> responsibility initiatives, overseeing an investment of more than $60
>>> million a year in programs and grants that helped support Internet
>>> development. In 2010 she partnered with ISOC to launch a highly successful
>>> forum on the Internet and higher education in East Africa.  In addition,
>>> she served on Verizon's corporate councils for the development of the
>>> company's online privacy and content policies and promoted Verizon's Human
>>> Rights Statement and Supplier Code of Conduct.
>>>
>>> In her policy role at Verizon, she led the company's international
>>> public policy engagement through a period of dynamic change.  She
>>> represented the company in the successful adoption by the OECD of
>>> principles for Internet policy making and was a member of the U.S.
>>> delegation to the ITU World Conference on International Telecommunications
>>> treaty negotiations.  Kathy joined Verizon from Washington D.C. law firm
>>> Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where she was a partner specializing in legal
>>> and regulatory communications policy.
>>>
>>> Earlier in her career, Kathy served in U.S. President Clinton’s
>>> Administration where she was deeply involved in policy development that was
>>> instrumental to the deployment and adoption of the global Internet.  She
>>> served as Head of the Office of Policy and Development at the National
>>> Telecommunications Information Administration and then as Chief of Staff to
>>> Federal Communications Commission Chairman William E. Kennard.  At the FCC,
>>> she managed the staff supporting Chairman Kennard's historic decision to
>>> keep the Internet unregulated, to fund the E-rate, and to increase radio
>>> spectrum availability to fuel wireless technology innovation. Before moving
>>> to Washington D.C., Kathy held senior roles for 15 years in government
>>> service in New York.
>>>
>>> Kathy will start on January 1 and be based in the Internet Society’s
>>> Reston office.
>>>
>>> In February 2013, Internet Society CEO Lynn St. Amour announced her
>>> decision to step down at the end of her contract. Since joining the
>>> Internet Society in 1998 and at the helm since 2001, Lynn has worked
>>> tirelessly and passionately to establish the Internet Society as an
>>> internationally respected expert on Internet governance, and technical,
>>> development, and policy issues.  She has made ISOC what it is today.  The
>>> Board and I greatly appreciate all her hard work and wish her the very best
>>> in her future endeavors.  Lynn will continue to work with Kathy through the
>>> end of January to ensure a smooth transition.
>>>
>>> The press release, Kathy Brown's bio, and related material can be found
>>> at:
>>>
>>> http://www.internetsociety.org
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Bob Hinden
>>> Chair of the Internet Society Board of Trustees
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Best,
>> Veni
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>>
>> ***
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>>
>>
>> == Sent from my phone, so any spelling mistakes are caused by the
>> touchscreen keyboard.
>>
>>
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