Board of Directors
- Ram Mohan (representing Afilias)
- vacant (representing Afilias)
- vacant (representing Afilias)
- David Frigeri (elected at-large from Chapter membership)
- vacant (elected at-large from Chapter membership)
Board of Directors Biographies
Ram Mohan - Member
Ram Mohan is the Executive Vice President & Chief Technical Officer of Afilias. At Afilias, Ram is charged with managing all of Afilias' technical operations which support the generic top-level domains (gTLDs) .INFO and .ORG, in addition to a number of sponsored and country code domains. With Ram's guidance, Afilias was the first to implement an XML-based "thick" registry running on the new Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP), and was the first to complete the largest transition of a domain registry when it successfully transitioned .ORG from VeriSign Global Registry Services on behalf of the .ORG registry operator, the Public Interest Registry. Before joining Afilias in September 2001, Ram was at Infonautics Corp., a pioneering online database and content distribution company. He has held various leadership positions at Infonautics, including Interim COO, CTO and VP, Product Marketing. Ram is the founder of the award-winning CompanySleuth product, and created the Sleuth line of business at Infonautics. He helped architect Electric Library, the United States' most used online reference database in schools and libraries, and Encyclopedia.com, the first free encyclopedia on the Internet. Prior to joining Infonautics, Ram worked with First Data Corporation, Unisys Corporation and KPMG Peat Marwick in a variety of leadership, engineering and technology positions. Ram's educational background reflects his belief that technology is best used for business advantage and market leadership. He has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mangalore, an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from Bharathidasan University, and is completing a second Master's in Computer Science at Philadelphia's Drexel University. Ram has been active in the ICANN community, serving on the Redemption Grace Period (RGP) implementation task force, the GNSO Whois task force, as well as the Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) registry implementation committee. Ram is also a member of the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SECSAC), which is an ICANN Board advisory committee comprised of Internet pioneers and technical experts including operators of Internet root servers, registrars, and TLD registries. Ram was previously named one of the Philadelphia Business Journal's 40 under 40 for 2003, serves on the Board of the Philadelphia-based Metropolitan Career Center, serves on the advisory boards of several Philadelphia-area startup companies, and is actively involved in cancer-related nonprofits. In 2010, Ram was named to InfoWorld Magazine’s CTO 25 Awards for leadership in deploying DNSSEC.
David Frigeri - Member
David Frigeri is Vice-President Global Services for Internap Network Services. In this role, he is responsible for over $25 million of revenue for the content delivery/streaming business, including Business Development, Account Management and Inside Sales. In addition to his revenue responsibilities, David is accountable for the integrity of client network design, client satisfaction and training by overseeing the Technical Consultant organization. David has also held general management responsibilities including Client Services and Professional Services organizations. Internap Network Services Corporation delivers a suite of Internet solutions, including content delivery, datacenter and high performance IP services. David created and led the go to market strategy for Internap Network Services's Professional Services organization, now recognized as leaders in the design, implementation and optimization of business-critical networks. The Internap Network Services Professional Services team was awarded the 2005 and 2006 Ace Award for Achievement in Customer Excellence.
David was the Co-Chairman of the Network Reliability Interoperability Council Subcommittee on Public Data Network Best Practices. The NRIC charter, as part of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, is to partner with the FCC, the communications industry and public safety community to facilitate enhancement of emergency communications networks, homeland security, and best practices across the burgeoning telecommunications industry. The mission of the Public Data Networks Focus Group focuses on network reliability Best Practices -- developing new best practices as well as reviewing existing ones. In addition, David has accepted invitations to contribute to two Presidential advisory councils -- the National Telecommunications Advisory Council Next Generation Network and the National Infrastructure Advisory Council.
David has been the Session Chair and Focus Area Champion for the IEEE Council on Quality and Reliability. David is a featured author in the book CIO Wisdom II; his chapter is entitled Running Business Critical Applications over the Internet. He has also lectured at the George Washington University School of Management and the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University -- "The Obstacles to Quality of Service on the Internet." David graduated from Hobart College and has attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management Executive Program.