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ICANN Leadership Confusion?

June 23, 2012 by Michele Neylon

Fadi Chehadé
Fadi Chehadé

Yesterday afternoon ICANN held a press conference in Prague to announce two things:

  • the new CEO who would replace Rod Beckstrom
  • the interim CEO who would fill the role between Beckstrom’s departure and October 1

The new CEO from October 1 2012 will be Fadi Chehadé but until he takes the reins ICANN’s Chief Operating Officer Akram Atallah will be interim CEO.

So this week’s meeting in Prague is a little bit odd. There are currently 3 ICANN CEOs in the building.

Rod Beckstrom is officially CEO until July 1st, but it would be quite futile to address any concerns to someone with only a few days left in the job.

So what about the other two?

Chief Operating Officer Akram Atallah has been around for some time, so he obviously has a handle on what’s going on, but will he be sitting in the CEO chair at meetings this week?

And what of Fadi Chehadé?

I assume he’ll be in attendance at a lot of the meetings this week, but he is still in a learning phase.

Confused?

Filed Under: icann Tagged With: Akram Atallah, Beckstrom, Chief executive officer, Chief operating officer, Generic top-level domain, icann, Prague, Rod Beckstrom

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

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