Welcome on board Stephane!
I am sure you will make a valuable contribution to the work of the BC.
Best
Chris Chaplow
Managing Director
Andalucia.com S.L.
Avenida del Carmen 9
Ed. Puertosol, Puerto
Deportivo
1ª Planta,
Oficina 30
Estepona, 29680
Malaga, Spain
Tel: + (34) 952 897 865
Fax: + (34) 952 897 874
E-mail:
chris@andalucia.com
Web:
www.andalucia.com
Information about Andalucia, Spain.
As the firm I represent is now officially a BC member, and as I am its voting representative, I wanted to thank this group for welcoming me and introduce my firm and myself.
STEPHANE VAN GELDER CONSULTING (SVGC) was set up to leverage my experience as a professional journalist, a seasoned member of the domain industry and an entrepreneur.
SVGC is a UK-based company operating in both England and France. It has clients in the UK, France, the US, Asia and the Arab countries. It provides consultancy in a number
of areas, including:
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setting up companies in France,
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managing Internet-based projects,
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developing clients' online presence and strategy (including domain name related strategies and social media related strategies),
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lobbying,
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working and interacting with governments and governmental authorities,
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interfacing with registries and registrars,
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drafting targeted media content,
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understanding Internet governance,
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conducting business reviews.
I am the company's founder and chairman. I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science. I studied at university in England. I am fully bilingual and bicultural
in English and French.
My first career was in journalism, where I worked as a print and TV journalist for more than 10 years.
I then cofounded a corporate registrar in France called INDOM, which I built up to become France's market leader and then sold to UK-based Group NBT (now NetNames) in 2010.
I stayed with NetNames until December 2012. I left NetNames to set up SVGC.
I have good experience of the world of Internet governance. I served as an elected Board member for the French registry AFNIC from 2004 to 2010. I was nominated by European
registry EURid to serve on its Requirements Panel and its Code of Conduct Council.
INDOM has been a member of the Registrar Stakeholder Group since 2007 and I have been a member of that group's Executive Committee since 2008, when I was elected treasurer.
In 2009 I was elected GNSO Council rep and nominated to be the CPH's Vice Chair in 2010. I was elected Chair of the GNSO Council in 2011 and again in 2012.
I currently sit on the NomCom as the RrSG's rep there. I have already informed the RrSG Excom that I am now a BC member and that once my current NomCom term ends in Q3 this
year, I will no longer seek to represent the RrSG in any position.
I am delighted to be a member of the BC and look forward to meeting as many of you as possible in the months to come, either in person or via this list.
I will be attending the INTA meeting in Dallas next week, so if any BC members are around, it would be a pleasure to meet you.
Thanks for reading and sorry for this long first email to the BC list ;)
Stéphane Van Gelder
Chairman and Managing Director/Fondateur
STEPHANE VAN GELDER CONSULTING
T (UK): +44 (0)7583 457053
T (FR): +33 (0)6 20 40 55 89