Toronto, Ontario, Canada
I understand the challenges faced by growing companies from bootstrapped start-ups to large organizations. No matter the size or years in business, the challenges, especially management support, operations, and technology, are the same just scaled differently. Having a leader with expertise to grow revenue and profitability is key to success. My passion lies in ensuring improved efficiency and productivity of an organization. I have honed the ability to translate my expertise and team leadership into innovative techniques to increase your company’s bottom line. With proven expertise in strategic financial and operational improvement recommendations, financial management, and partnership cultivation, I can innovate and optimize current processes, systems, and formats through the introduction of continuous improvements. I have been recognized for the successful leadership of operations and the ability to identify issues, find best fit solutions, formulate vision and requirements and ensure all parties understand the direction being taken, and introduce enhancements with a focus on strategic insights. Areas of Expertise: • Stakeholder Management • Operational Efficiency • Business Development • Sustainability • Revenue Growth • Fundraising • Emotional Intelligence
We help organizations and executives understand the fundamental elements of their company's leadership, culture, and decision-making, to create the processes that enable good decisions that stay decided. Constantly revisiting decisions is a good way to impede progress, but it is not a good way to make a high-performing culture. We also help organizations with technical fundamentals and application architecture, with a particular focus on networked systems and infrastructure.
The Internet Society is working to promote the defining values of an open, globally-connected, trusted, and secure Internet for everyone. Highlights of my tenure included a complete reorganization of the staff to improve effectiveness of Internet Society projects; improvement and consolidation of charitable granting to make the process more transparent, predictable, and effective; the redesign of training and travel support programs to support future leaders; improved financial results on a key charitable marker; and significantly strengthened legal, compliance, and fundraising functions. The Internet Society President and CEO is also CEO of the Internet Society Foundation. A five-year report [https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2025/delivering-on-a-five-year-strategy/] outlines the way the organization delivered its mission work due to the five-year plan I initiated at the beginning of my tenure.
The IAOC oversees the IETF Administrative Director in executing the administrative functions of the IETF. I was selected by the IETF nomcom for a 2-year term starting in 2018, and selected by the rest of the IAOC as its chair. Owing to a job change, I resigned as chair in July and resigned my nomcom seat on 1 September. (The Internet Society CEO is a member ex-officio, so I remained a member that way.)
Dyn's focus is Internet performance. It offers services and research to monitor, analyze, control, and optimize your Internet-connected systems. As a Dyn Fellow, I concentrate on architecture of Internet systems; work on Internet standards, protocols, and policy; and help the Dyn technical staff with specialist problems when they come up. Dyn was acquired by Oracle in January of 2017.
The IAB is an activity of the Internet Engineering Task Force. It offers a board view of the overall Internet architecture, and it also functions as the IETF's interface to external parties. More on the IAB is available at https://www.iab.org/about/ . The chair is chosen annually by the IAB members, and performs a number of administrative functions for the board and is an ex officio member of some other IETF bodies. My tenure as chair coincided with changes to the stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority function, which meant I spent a lot of time on that file and testified before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. We were ultimately successful, and the US Government is no longer implicated in IANA. During the same period, the IAB renewed its focus on programs and decentralized some of its operations to ensure the chair does not become a single point of failure. In November 2016 I announced that I would not seek another term as chair.
The IAB is an activity of the Internet Engineering Task Force. It is supposed to offer a broad view of the overall Internet architecture, and it also functions as the interface to external parties. In my first term on the IAB, I acted as the shepherd for the liaison manager to ICANN, and the program lead on the internationalization and IANA evolution programs.