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ICANN's new CEO expected to attend Sydney meeting
Wednesday, June 10. 2009
ICANN's replacement for current CEO Paul Twomey (pictured) should be in attendance at the Sydney meeting, at the end of June. Photo SVG.
Well, you'll probably now read it in lots of other places, but you read it here first folks! Paul Twomey's replacement should be in attendance at the next ICANN meeting, happening in Sydney (Australia) from June 21 to June 26.
Twomey's current contract ends on June 30th and it had been expected that ICANN's new CEO would be "phased in" after Sydney, starting in July with some "meet and greet" sessions with the ICANN staff.
Well it now seems that timetable has been shortened and that the new CEO should not only be named during the Sydney meeting, but actually there.
And that then begs the obvious question: who is he? Sorry, not even my promises of a lifelong supply of French baguettes to my sources had them willing to let me in on that well guarded secret. So all I can tell you is that the lucky finalist apparently hails from the American business community, and is an ICANN outsider.
I guess we'll know more in a couple of weeks.
P.S.: This just in: the IGP blog has former Director of US Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity Center Rob Beckstrom as Twomey's replacement, with former Disney CEO Michael Eisner a finalist as well...
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