Kuo-wei is very accessible and a reasonable guy. He is a Board member of PIR, too. I think this is an improvement, overall. --MM From: Non-Commercial User Constituency [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of William Drake Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:08 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Fwd: [council] New ICANN Board member - starting 30 April 2010- Mr Kuo-Wei Wu A pity to see Raimundo Beca go, he was a friendly and inter alia helpful to us with NCSG formation; a number of us wrote endorsements for his reelection. At the same time, Kuo-Wei Wu's a good guy with whom I'd expect we also will be able to work well. I wonder how this will play in China... Bill Begin forwarded message: From: "Bruce Tonkin" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Date: March 23, 2010 1:02:42 AM GMT-03:00 To: "GNSO Council " <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: [council] New ICANN Board member - starting 30 April 2010- Mr Kuo-Wei Wu Hello All, The ASO has announced that that Mr. Kuo-Wei Wu has been elected by the Address Council to fill Seat Number 10 on the ICANN Board. (see http://aso.icann.org/news/kuo-wei-wu-elected-to-seat-10-on-the-icann-boa rd/ ). I see that Mr Kuo-Wei Wu - has experience across ccTLDs (board member of .tw), gTLDs (Board member of .org), and IP addresses (member of Executive Council of APNIC). He has the full set :-) Below is a short biography. Regards, Bruce Tonkin From: http://aso.icann.org/people/icann-board-elections/2010-election/kuo-wei- wu/ Short biography Mr. Kuo-Wei Wu has technical, management and policy experience in Internet-related industry. He is the co-founders of TWNIC (.tw operator), APTLD, CDNC (Chinese Domain Name Consortium). He is currently board member of TWNIC (2000 ~ now), APIA (Asia Pacific Internet Association, 2008~2010) and PIR (.org operator, 2009~2011), and EC of APNIC (1999~now), TWIA (Taiwan Internet Association, 2008~2010), and COSA (Chinese Open System Association, 1995~now). He has experience in supervision, financial, and governance. In regard to Internet-related management, Mr. Wu was the deputy director of NCHC (National Center for High-Performance Computing) from 1990~1998, where he was responsible for TANET (Taiwan Academic Network) backbone operation to serve all the universities, research institutions in Taiwan and a staff of over 120 people. He is the co-founder of Asia Pacific Supercomputer Center Consortium (HPC Asia) to lead the experience sharing over ten Asia Pacific Supercomputer Centers. He started Internet-related works since he worked for Cray Research, Inc. (1984~1990), and a vice-president of Yam Digital, Inc. (One of the leading Internet Portal in Taiwan). When he was a vice-president of Acer, Inc.. he lead the Internet service business for Acer, Inc. (2000~2004). He actively involved in ICANN activities (GAC, ALS, ccNSO, ASO) since 1999 til now. He also actively participated UN/WSIS (2004~2005), and UN/IGF (2006~2009). He is the CEO of NIIEPA (2004~now) - a non-profit organization in Taiwan. NIIEPA provide research and consultant services in Internet policy and Information security for government, research institutions, universities, and industry. Mr. Wu holds a mathematics BSc degree from Tunghai University (Taiwan, 1975), a MSc degree in Mathematics from University of Cincinnati (Ohio, USA, 1980), and MSc degree in Computer Science from Columbia University (NYC, 1982). *********************************************************** William J. Drake Senior Associate Centre for International Governance Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html<http://www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html> ***********************************************************