Joining Chris in welcome to Stephane, It is always helpful for new members to introduce themselves! I think there may be other new members/and would be great to hear from you as well. Marilyn Cade Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Chris Chaplow <chris@andalucia.com> Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 12:12:31 To: <svg@stephanevangelder.com>; <bc-gnso@icann.org> Subject: RE: [bc-gnso] New member, introducing myself 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 <mailto:chris@andalucia.com> Web: www.andalucia.com <http://www.andalucia.com/> Information about Andalucia, Spain. De: owner-bc-gnso@icann.org [mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org] En nombre de Stéphane Van Gelder Consulting Enviado el: miércoles, 01 de mayo de 2013 13:11 Para: bc-gnso@icann.org Asunto: [bc-gnso] New member, introducing myself Hello BC members, 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: * setting up companies in France, * managing Internet-based projects, * developing clients' online presence and strategy (including domain name related strategies and social media related strategies), * lobbying, * working and interacting with governments and governmental authorities, * interfacing with registries and registrars, * drafting targeted media content, * understanding Internet governance, * 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 ;) Best, 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 Skype: SVANGELDER www.StephaneVanGelder.com <http://www.stephanevangelder.com/> ---------------- Follow us on Twitter: @stephvg and "like" us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/DomainConsultant <http://www.facebook.com/DomainConsultant> LinkedIn: fr.linkedin.com/in/domainconsultant/ <http://fr.linkedin.com/in/domainconsultant/>