Board of Directors

Sylvie LaPerrière
Google

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.

Michael K. Smith
Edgecast Networks

Michael Smith is VP of Network Engineering at Edgecast Networks and VP of the Board of Directors for the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX). In the past he was CTO of Adhost Internet and held senior engineering positions at NoaNet, Semaphore Corporation and Northwest Link. Michael was a key contributor during the NANOG transition, building the pro forma for the new organization, creating the first membership framework, as well as maintaining the NANOG mailing lists while Chair of the Communications Committee. He has been an active NANOG participant since 1998.

Duane Wessels
VeriSign

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.

Steve Feldman
CBS Interactive

Steve Feldman has been involved in computer networking since 1978. He has worked in software development and network engineering for Tymnet and MFS/Worldcom, where he was the principal architect for the MAE Internet exchanges. Since then, he has gone on to work for several startups and acted as an independent consultant, and is now a network engineer for CBS Interactive (formerly CNET Networks). He was also chair of the NANOG Program Committee from 2005 through 2007. Steve received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Steve Gibbard
Tata Communications

Steve manages network engineering at BitGravity, Tata Communications' content delivery network. He has worked in the Internet industry since 1996, with previous network engineering or architecture positions at Nominum, GoGrid, Packet Clearing House, Cable and Wireless, and others. Steve has previously served as NANOG's Secretary and Membership Chair, and before that wrote NANOG's bylaws as chair of the NewNOG Governance Commitee. He has been actively involved in NANOG governance since 2004, as one of the authors of the NANOG Reform Proposal calling for NANOG's self-governance, and as one of the authors of the Merit NANOG charter. His current focus for NANOG is on expanding education and training programs for network engineers.

Daniel Golding
Independent Consultant

Daniel Golding has over 15 years of experience in the Internet, datacenter, and critical facilities fields. His experience ranges from financial and organizational to deeply technical. He has held executive positions at RagingWire Data Centers, DH Capital, and Tier 1 Research. In addition, Daniel has significant experience in conference administration and management, including serving as the conference chairman for the Hosting Transformation Summit and the Global Peering Forum, for four years in each case. Daniel has held a wide variety of positions across the Internet infrastructure sector: network engineering and peering; data center operations and engineering; financial and industry analysis; and executive management. Also, uniquely, he possesses strong financial knowledge through work as an investor and banker in the Internet sector. Daniel has also been a sponsor and host of NANOG through previous employers, bringing specific knowledge of these essential community roles to the table.

Betty Burke
NANOG

Currently serving as the NANOG Executive Director, responsible for all aspects of NANOG, reporting to the Board of Directors. Previous 37 years of experience serving in technology, business, and management within the Michigan Information Technology Services, University of Michigan, and Merit Network. Proven leadership and experience in development of strategic and operational plans, creation and implementation of marketing campaign for conference center and high tech facilities including a data center, conference and office building, library and campus fiber assets. Proven operational success through project management, along with leadership through community and team building.

Dan Sneddon
Cloudscaling

Dan Sneddon has been in the Internet and telecommunications field for nearly 20 years. He has worked in the areas of provisioning & procurement, eCommerce, and IT governance in both the commercial and government realms. Past employers include Apple, where he was the lead networking engineer for nearly 4 years, and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Dan is currently a Senior Engineer at Cloudscaling.

Gina Haspilaire
Pacnet Services (USA) Inc.

Gina Haspilaire has been an active member of NANOG since 2008 and is a member of the Development Committee since April 2011. Her background is from the Telecom Services sector where she is presently Pacnet's (leading Asia Pacific privately held subsea cable operator) Vice President for North America. She joined Pacnet in 2002 just prior to its transition from Asia Global Crossing to Asia Netcom. Before joining Pacnet, Gina was a Principal in the executive search business of Heidrick & Struggles. She began her career at AT&T as a UNIX "C" programmer and spent 14 years there in various technical, sales, and management positions. In the early 1990's she served as one of AT&T's Investor Relations Directors managing their quarterly earnings reporting process and the positioning of AT&T's stock to buy-side analyst. Gina has an MBA from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from St. John's University.

David Temkin
Netflix

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. He has also held the position of Director of IP Product Development and Engineering at Telx. He was responsible for all Layer 2 & 3 product architecture, design, and deployment across the Telx portfolio of data centers. Previously, he spent time at Yahoo! as the Layer 4-7 Network Architect, responsible for network load balancing. He also designed and built out the global network for Right Media, an online ad serving startup that was later acquired by Yahoo!