Dear Colleagues, Please see below for the response from ICANN Legal with regards to their due diligence (background checks) on the ccNSO’s two Board seat 12 candidates. I am pleased to report there are no issues. Best regards, Byron From: Amy Stathos <amy.stathos@icann.org> Sent: September 4, 2020 7:45 PM To: Byron Holland <byron.holland@cira.ca> Cc: Joke Braeken <joke.braeken@icann.org> Subject: Re: [EXT] ICANN Board seat 12 - Information and process notification Hi Byron - We have concluded due diligence on both candidates and not found any red flags for either candidate. Please let me know if you have any questions. Amy Stathos Deputy General Counsel Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers +1-310-301-3866 (direct) amy.stathos@icann.org<mailto:amy.stathos@icann.org> From: Amy Stathos <amy.stathos@icann.org<mailto:amy.stathos@icann.org>> Sent: July 17, 2020 11:37 AM To: Byron Holland <byron.holland@cira.ca<mailto:byron.holland@cira.ca>> Cc: Joke Braeken <joke.braeken@icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>> Subject: [EXT] Re: ICANN Board seat 12 - Information and process notification Thanks and noted Byron. Can you please provide me with the candidates preferred emails that I can provide to the third party due diligence provider. Thanks. Amy Stathos Deputy General Counsel Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers +1-310-301-3866 (direct) amy.stathos@icann.org<mailto:amy.stathos@icann.org> On Jul 17, 2020, at 8:16 AM, Byron Holland <byron.holland@cira.ca<mailto:byron.holland@cira.ca>> wrote: Dear Amy, I am contacting you on behalf of the ccNSO Council. This email informs you about the list of candidates for ICANN Board Seat 12, and provides you with the necessary information, allowing for the due diligence verifications to start as soon as possible. As per the timeline<https://ccnso.icann.org/en/workinggroups/timeline-nomination-icann-board-sea...> decided upon by the ccNSO Council, the ccNSO Chair should send you a list of candidates for Board Seat 12 - and any additional material they submitted - on 17 July 2020, allowing for the due diligence verifications to start. On 8 July 2020, Katrina Sataki (current ccNSO Council Chair) formally accepted her nomination as candidate for the Board Seat 12 Nomination. As a result, and according to the Guideline: ccNSO Nominations Process ICANN Board Seats 11 and 12, section 3.5 and section 3.8, the Council needed to designate another person to take on the Chair’s tasks under the Guideline. The ccNSO Council decided to appoint myself, Byron Holland, for this role. The Guideline was approved by Council at its meeting on 21 May 2020 and can be consulted here<https://ccnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/field-attached/ccnso-nominations...>. Since Katrina is a candidate in the Board Seat 12 nomination process herself, all future correspondence regarding this process should be sent to me, and no longer to Katrina. Kindly refrain from sending emails to ccnsosecretariat@icann.org<mailto:ccnsosecretariat@icann.org>, as Katrina and other Council members are subscribed to the ccNSO Secretariat mailing list. ccNSO staff support can be contacted at bart.boswinkel@icann.org<mailto:bart.boswinkel@icann.org> and joke.braeken@icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org> About the call for nominations On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 (23:59 UTC), the recent call for nominations for the position of ICANN Board seat 12 was closed. Consult the announcements of the call for nominations, closure of the call for nominations, extension of the acceptance deadline and revised timeline and any other relevant information here<https://ccnso.icann.org/en/about/nominations.htm> or in the links section below. List of candidates, in alphabetical order In accordance with the applicable rules, the following candidates were nominated, seconded and have accepted their nomination ahead of the deadline. In alphabetical order: Nigel Roberts Katrina Sataki The full names, contact details, country of domicile or residence, candidate statements and CV’s - as submitted by the candidates - are included in attachment. The aforementioned candidates warrant, are aware of, and consent to: * The Country of Citizenship or Domicile included in the nomination form; * Not to hold a position as an official of a national government or a multinational entity (section 7.4 (a) of the ICANN Bylaws<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article7>; * Section 7.4 (b) of the ICANN Bylaws<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article7>; * Section 7.4 (d) of the ICANN Bylaws<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article7>; * Fully cooperate to undergo a due diligence screening by an external provider, which includes providing necessary consent to ICANN to transmit personal data to the due diligence provider. The aforementioned candidates explicitly confirmed their consent to the processing of their personal data in accordance with the ICANN Privacy Policy<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_privacy_p...> for the purposes of providing it to the Mintz Group to conduct due diligence. For your information, as per the timeline agreed by the ccNSO Council, the list of candidates and their candidate statements was sent on 16 July 2020 to the ccNSO members and ccNSO council mailing lists, and requested to be published on the ccNSO website<https://ccnso.icann.org/en/about/nominations.htm>. Links * Announcement call for nominations<https://ccnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-08jun20-en.htm> * Announcement closure call for nominations<https://ccnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-01jul20-en.htm> * Announcement extension acceptance deadline<https://ccnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-08jul20-en.htm> * Archive for nominations and secondments<https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ccnso-boardnominations/> * Relevant ccNSO guideline<https://ccnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/field-attached/ccnso-nominations...> * Timeline<https://ccnso.icann.org/en/workinggroups/timeline-nomination-icann-board-sea...> (v2) Best regards, Byron <KatrinaSataki-statement_2020.pdf><KSataki_cv_2020en.pdf><Candidate overview.docx><NigelRoberts-statement_2020.pdf>