Re: [npoc-voice] New ICANN Chief Contract Compliance Officer Appointed | Position of Consumer Safeguards Director is Created

[Olévié Kouami <olivierkouami@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Rudi for sharing this warm news with us.
Really ICANN is continuing wiith its globalization.
Kudos to Allen Grogan and Maguy Serad !
Kudos to the new ICANN.
Cheers !
-Olevie-



2014-10-13 0:43 GMT+00:00 Rudi Vansnick <rudi.vansnick@xxxxxxx>:

> For your information
>
>   [image: ICANN] <http://www.icann.org/> News Alert
>
> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-10-12-en
> ------------------------------
> New ICANN Chief Contract Compliance Officer Appointed | Position of
> Consumer Safeguards Director is Created
>
> 12 October 2014
> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today
> announced the appointment of Allen Grogan as Chief Contract Compliance
> Officer, overseeing Contract Compliance and Safeguards. In his new position
> Grogan will report directly to President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi
> Chehadé, and he becomes a member of ICANN's Global Leadership Team. He has
> served as ICANN's Chief Contracting Counsel since May 2013.
> "Expanding the domain name space as we are doing through the New gTLD
> Program requires that we continue to align our operational capabilities
> with the demands imposed by 1300 new Registry Agreements," said ICANN
> President and CEO Fadi Chehadé. "Allen's expertise will add to the
> excellent operational capabilities of our current team a deeper level of
> legal experience and analysis."
> Allen Grogan has negotiated and implemented the new gTLD agreements, and
> has more than 30 years of experience as a lawyer specializing in technology
> and the Internet. His experience and knowledge of the contracts related to
> the New gTLD Program will serve the team well in grappling with compliance
> issues related to the safeguards and ICANN's Public Interest Commitments.
> The workload of ICANN's contractual compliance team has increased
> markedly. From August 2013 to August 2014, 36,732 informal complaints were
> filed against registrars, while 853 informal complaints were filed against
> registries. During the same period, 72 formal complaints were filed.
> Maguy Serad, ICANN's Vice President for Contractual Compliance since 2012,
> will remain in her role and will report to Grogan. During her tenure, Serad
> has successfully scaled and expanded the team, making it an effective
> global department. She has operationalized our compliance capabilities in a
> way that embraces growth.
> "Under Maguy's leadership, the Contractual Compliance team has done an
> outstanding job building a sustainable foundation for the future," said
> Grogan. "We now want to build on that foundation in the most efficient and
> comprehensive manner possible."
> Grogan will also be exploring ways that ICANN can work with others to help
> safeguard registrants and the global Internet community in ways that may go
> beyond pure contractual enforcement.
> A newly created position of Consumer Safeguards Director will also report
> to Grogan, and will focus specifically on implementation of those ICANN
> contract safeguards directed toward protecting consumers.
> "Today, we have 21 staff members, spread over three hub offices. We are
> now able to offer 24 hour support in nine languages," said Chehadé. "Our
> next step is to begin building a broader compliance vision that will serve
> us well in our mission of providing public benefit."
> To download a high resolution photo of Allen Grogan, go here:
> https://flic.kr/p/pmw7fa.
> To download a high resolution photo of Maguy Serad, go here:
> https://flic.kr/p/pmwVgq.
>
>


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