BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Michienne Dixon,
liNKCity

ex-officio

Communications Committee Chair

Michienne is network administrator for a small municipally owned ISP in North Kansas City, Missouri (3 yrs), has been in the industry for over 10 years, spending a large portion of that time working as a network mercenary managing multiple enterprise networks and mail servers and communicating technical issues to upper-management.

Term ends October 2012.

Steve Gibbard

Secretary

Steve is the Network Architect at Nominum, a DNS company, where he works on network infrastructure to support hosted DNS-related services.He has worked in the Internet industry since 1996, with previous network engineering or architecture positions at GoGrid, Packet Clearing House, Cable and Wireless, Digital Island, and World Wide.

Patrick W. Gilmore, Akamai Technologies

Patrick W. Gilmore is principal architect at Akamai Technologies, where he has worked for over eight years. He currently oversees the Network Architecture department. Prior to Akamai, he worked at Onyx Network, Concentric Networks, and Priori Networks.

He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the London Internet Exchange, a member of the Board of Directors of the Seattle Internet Exchange, and an Administrator of the PeeringDB.

Term ends October 2012.

Sylvie LaPerrière, Google

Board Chair

Sylvie LaPerrière has been an active builder of the global Internet Infrastructure, developing peering relationships with Internet players around the world and expanding the network in underserved markets via new undersea cables or satellite connectivity. She serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for the North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG).

At Google Inc., Sylvie is on the program management team building out the Internet connectivity and content distribution reach required to deliver Google services worldwide. While at Tata Communications Ltd, she pushed the expansion of its Internet backbone network into more than 25 new markets, had it circle the globe and achieved Tier1 status.

Sylvie has 17 years of international business development experience for Internet, data and mobile telecommunications services. A frequent speaker on international panels, she received her Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and Information Systems from École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal.

Term ends October 2013.

Misako Manca, SoftLayer Technologies
ex-officio

Development Committee Chair

Misako Manca has been involved with NANOG since 2009 in various capacities as part of the Marketing Working Group and the Development Committee through the NewNOG transition. She has also helped jumpstart the NOGLab (formerly named the Vendor Collaboration Room) working closely with vendors who are able to demonstrate their product capabilities in relation to IPv6 deployment. Through her work in the Development Committee, she has helped create Sponsorship programs that help financially support the NANOG meetings and hopes to further improve these programs which will ultimately assist in continuity of the organization.

Misako brings 10+ years of experience in the Telecommunications and Internet services industry and currently holds a position in the Enterprise group at SoftLayer Technologies. At SoftLayer, she manages a number of major accounts, as well as offering account management support to the 25,000+ SoftLayer customers worldwide. Prior to SoftLayer, she has held various executive and account management positions with Ajilon Consulting, Equinix and NTT/Verio (now NTT America).

Term ends October 2012.

Michael K. Smith, Adhost

Treasurer

Michael is the CTO of Adhost Internet - a Seattle-based provider of colocation, hosting and managed services. He also serves as a technical adviso r to the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX), and is a SANS Mentor. He has previously held senior network engineering positions at NoaNet, Semaphore Corporation and Northwest Link.

Term ends October 2012.

Richard Steenbergen, nLayer Communications

Richard Steenbergen is the co-founder of nLayer Communications, a respectably sized and profitable North American based IP backbone, where he currently serves as the Chief Technical Officer. Richard brings years of experience in practical techniques for network operators, and is a frequent contributor in many community forums. Previously, Richard served as a Senior Network Engineer at several large NSPs, and was the Senior Software Engineer responsible for developing optimized routing technologies at netVmg, Inc.

Richard is also an active developer for tools and software used by the network operator community. Some notable projects include PeeringDB, a portal used by many networks to help coordinate their peering activities, and IRRPT, a software package used by ISPs to maintain IRR-based prefix filters.

Term ends October 2012.

David Temkin,
Netflix
ex-officio

Program Committee Chair

David Temkin is the Principal Network Architect for Content Delivery at Netflix. He is responsible for the network architecture of Netflix's distributed content caching systems. Previously he managed the corporate Network Engineering teams as the Network Engineering Manager, responsible for global data and voice networks as well as CDN relationships.

Duane Wessels, VeriSign

Vice Board Chair

Following his college education in Physics and Telecommunications, Duane worked on the Squid/IRCache project at UCSD. For many years his company, The Measurement Factory, developed open source testing and measurement tools for HTTP and DNS. Recently he was the Director of the Domain Name System Operations Analysis and Research Center (DNS-OARC). Currently Duane researches DNSSEC deployment for VeriSign.

Term ends October 2013.

Betty Burke

Betty Burke is the Executive Director of NANOG.