<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066">Dear colleagues! This is such heartbreaking news, hard to believe :(!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066">I fondly remember Stephane during our NomCom years and I always valued his positive and supportive attitude, sense of humor, professionalism and simply, being a great person. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066">He was a true gift to the world, to ICANN, to his colleagues and friends!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066">I hope ICANN will have a post-mortem award for his efforts and years of dedication. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066">p.s. can we do smth for his family? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066">Veronica</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066"> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 11:57 PM, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ocl@gih.com" target="_blank">ocl@gih.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Dear Colleagues,<br>
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it is with immense sadness that I have to relay the news of the
death of Stéphane van Gelder which occurred abruptly over the
week-end. Indeed, after the San Juan meeting, Stéphane went to Italy
for a well earned holiday. He had a motorcycle accident.<br>
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Some of us might know him from having worked with him on the
Nominating Committee, which he chaired in 2015 (Oct 2014 to Oct
2015) and 2016 but also as a member in other years. Some of you
might have known him when he was Chair of the Generic Names
Supporting Organisation (GNSO) Council in 2010 and 2011. It was
then, that I got to know him as I was ALAC Chair at the time.<br>
Stéphane was not the kind of person who took to a position and did
nothing with it. He liked challenges and led many improvements in
all of the positions that he held. He was also not scared of
intervening when he felt something was wrong in a process or a
system. <br>
Having founded a Registry in the late nineties, Stéphane sold it and
remained a consultant and businessman in recent years, also becoming
one of EURALO's first individual members (after he actually asked me
whether in my view, that was suitable or not).<br>
He will definitely be missed.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
Olivier<br>
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