[lac-discuss-en] Fwd: ICANN News Alert -- New ICANN Chief Contract Compliance Officer Appointed | Position of Consumer Safeguards Director is Created

[Fatima Cambronero]

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From: ICANN News Alert <communications at icann.org>
Date: 2014-10-12 20:56 GMT-03:00
Subject: ICANN News Alert -- New ICANN Chief Contract Compliance Officer
Appointed | Position of Consumer Safeguards Director is Created
To: fatimacambronero at gmail.com


  [image: ICANN] <http://www.icann.org/> News Alert

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-10-12-en
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New ICANN Chief Contract Compliance Officer Appointed | Position of
Consumer Safeguards Director is Created

12 October 2014

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today
announced the appointment of Allen Grogan as Chief Contract Compliance
Officer, overseeing Contract Compliance and Safeguards. In his new position
Grogan will report directly to President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi
Chehadé, and he becomes a member of ICANN's Global Leadership Team. He has
served as ICANN's Chief Contracting Counsel since May 2013.

"Expanding the domain name space as we are doing through the New gTLD
Program requires that we continue to align our operational capabilities
with the demands imposed by 1300 new Registry Agreements," said ICANN
President and CEO Fadi Chehadé. "Allen's expertise will add to the
excellent operational capabilities of our current team a deeper level of
legal experience and analysis."

Allen Grogan has negotiated and implemented the new gTLD agreements, and
has more than 30 years of experience as a lawyer specializing in technology
and the Internet. His experience and knowledge of the contracts related to
the New gTLD Program will serve the team well in grappling with compliance
issues related to the safeguards and ICANN's Public Interest Commitments.

The workload of ICANN's contractual compliance team has increased markedly.
>From August 2013 to August 2014, 36,732 informal complaints were filed
against registrars, while 853 informal complaints were filed against
registries. During the same period, 72 formal complaints were filed.

Maguy Serad, ICANN's Vice President for Contractual Compliance since 2012,
will remain in her role and will report to Grogan. During her tenure, Serad
has successfully scaled and expanded the team, making it an effective
global department. She has operationalized our compliance capabilities in a
way that embraces growth.

"Under Maguy's leadership, the Contractual Compliance team has done an
outstanding job building a sustainable foundation for the future," said
Grogan. "We now want to build on that foundation in the most efficient and
comprehensive manner possible."

Grogan will also be exploring ways that ICANN can work with others to help
safeguard registrants and the global Internet community in ways that may go
beyond pure contractual enforcement.

A newly created position of Consumer Safeguards Director will also report
to Grogan, and will focus specifically on implementation of those ICANN
contract safeguards directed toward protecting consumers.

"Today, we have 21 staff members, spread over three hub offices. We are now
able to offer 24 hour support in nine languages," said Chehadé. "Our next
step is to begin building a broader compliance vision that will serve us
well in our mission of providing public benefit."

To download a high resolution photo of Allen Grogan, go here:
https://flic.kr/p/pmw7fa.

To download a high resolution photo of Maguy Serad, go here:
https://flic.kr/p/pmwVgq.


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