Santanu ACHARYA (SOI) is Head of Finance, Audit, Accounts, Taxation and Compliances with National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), the Registry operator of India’s ccTLD – .IN

Santanu is a daring leader & strategic qualified finance professional with 25 years of experience in developing financial strategy, conducting revenue analysis, increasing cost efficiency, steering fraud investigations and meeting organizational objectives, as well as in designing financial strategies for maximizing profitability & revenue and attaining an organization’s goals.

With his decades-long engagement in the IT industry and NIXI in particular, he has also developed a profound expertise in the Names and Numbers area.

An effective leader with excellent communication, negotiation and relationship building skills, he spearheaded various projects on enhancement of operating, fiscal and technological policies.

Thanks in particular to his work, NIXI earned a prestigious 2019-20 National Award for Excellence in Financial Reporting in India from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of

Santanu holds Masters in Commerce and is a Qualified Chartered Accountant, the highest national qualification and also is a Certified Fraud Prevention Controller.

He is married & blessed with one daughter and resides with his family in New Delhi, India.

“With my experience, I would like to contribute to the DotAsia community by helping promote best practices and an accountable governance structure. ”

Kashif ADEEL (SOI), with over 20 years of management experience spread across large scale business and technology transformation initiatives with some of the largest financial institutions in the Middle East and Pakistan, is a technology evangelist and advocate.

As a mentor and coach to start up and technological initiatives, he has strong expertise in digital transformation, IT Strategy and Governance, Enterprise Architecture and Agile delivery. He has spearheaded digital and transformation initiatives to implement cutting edge and emerging digital technologies including but not limited to – BlockChain, Artificial Intelligence; Robotics Process Automation & Internet of Things.

He is an advisor to various digital, training and start-up companies. As an active researcher, Kashif has presented and published various papers on technology and its innovative applications in various reputed journals & conferences. He has also worked as technology research reviewer of an international journal. He was also invited to address conferences as Chair/Keynote/Moderator in various international conferences/events in Asia Pacific, Middle East and European countries. He is currently part of APNG Executive Team and previously served as 12th APNG Camp Co-Chair held at Hiroshima, Japan.

His qualifications include Certified Governance in Enterprise IT (CGEIT), Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile Program Management (Agile PgM), Scaled Agile (SAFe Agilest), IBM BlockChain Essentials, BlockChain Business Foundation, Scrum Master, ITIL and COBIT5 and Master’s Degree in Software Project Management.

Satish BABU (SOI) is a Free Software activist, early Internet advocate and development professional based out of Kerala, India. He is the founding Director of the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS), an autonomous academic/research institution of the Government of Kerala, India, where he worked from March 2011 to September 2015. He was earlier the CEO of SIFFS, a co-founder and President of InApp Information Technologies, and is associated with national and international professional societies such as IEEE, Internet Society (ISOC), ICANN, and the Computer Society of India (CSI).

Satish has been active in Internet Governance since the 2009 IGF. He was a Fellow of the 2012 European Summer School in Internet Governance (EuroSSIG). He is associated with ICANN since 2012 and with ISOC as a member since 2009. He was appointed the Interim Chair of the Asian, Australasian and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization (APRALO) of ICANN in Sep 2016, and elected as Chair in Nov 2016.

Andi BUDIMANSYAH (SOI) – Currently, he is the Chair of the Indonesia IT Federation, which consists of the IT-related Association in Indonesia. Besides, he is also one of the Councilors of the ASEAN Chief Information Officer Association (ACIOA).

During his eight years as Chairman and CEO of PANDI ccTLD.ID (2011-2019), he has brought PANDI forward rapidly through product and service development, marketing and socialization, policy development, compliance with ISO standards, and community involvement in decision making, to have panels and policy for domain dispute resolution.

With 32 years of experience in the IT field, he started his career as a computer programmer, system analyst, to the managerial level at the Yellow Pages Publisher company in Indonesia during 1988-1998.

He has been in several business fields, ranging from call-centers, Internet Service Providers, TV Broadcasts, System Developers, and IT Consultants.

His track record in organizations is also quite large, including at the ISP Association, Indonesia Wireless, ID-IGF, ISOC Indonesia Jakarta Chapter.

He is also very interested in Cybersecurity and Privacy security and its mitigation.

Arthur CHANG (SOI), has over 30 years of sales, marketing and general management experience in the information technology and internet industries. He is also a serial entrepreneur with 3 companies found in the mobile, Internet and E-commerce arena.

Prior to founding the latest eBeauty Group, which is a USD3Billion+ GMV e-commerce company with over 3000 staff, Mr. Chang served as the Vice President of Global Sales at Alibaba.com Limited, a leading e-commerce company in China which was listed on the Stock Exchange with stock code 1688 prior to its privatization (“Alibaba.com”). Before joining Alibaba.com in January 2008, Mr. Chang was an executive director and chief executive officer of Green Tomato Limited, a company specializing in mobile enterprise solutions. Prior to that, he was Managing Director, Asia Pacific at VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN) from 1999 to 2002 and General Manager at General Data Systems Co. Ltd., a joint venture of GEIS International Inc..

Mr. Chang received a bachelor’s degree in computer studies from the University of Hong Kong and a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, in November 1988 and December 1996 respectively.

Edmon CHUNG (SOI) is serving as the CEO for DotAsia Organisation and heads the secretariat for the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF). Edmon currently Co-Chairs the ICANN Joint ccNSO/GNSO IDN Working Group (JIG) and participates extensively on Internet governance issues.

Edmon is an inventor of patents underlying technologies for internationalized domain names (IDN) and email addresses on the Internet. Edmon has served on many global IDN related committees, including technical and policy groups, that made it possible for the introduction of multilingual domain names and email addresses on the Internet. Edmon founded Neteka Inc. in partnership with the University of Toronto Innovations Foundation in 1999, and went on to win the Most Innovative Award in the Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurship Award in 2001. In 2000, Edmon was selected by The Globe and Mail as one of the Young Canadian Leaders. Between 2007 and 2010, Edmon served as an elected member on the ICANN GNSO Council. Between 2010 and 2012, Edmon served as an elected member on the ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) from the Asia Pacific Region. Between 2006 and 2011, Edmon served as an elected member of the Elections Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the Information Technology Subsector.

Edmon has a Bachelor of Applied Science and Master of Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Jose Emmanuel DISINI (SOI) – I was born and raised in the Manila, Philippines. I moved to California in 1980 to study, and graduated in 1984 from Caltech, specializing in Computer Science. I found work in Silicon Valley, working on the Macintosh, which had then just been released, writing networking software. In 1990 I moved back to Manila, founded one of the first ISPs here, and became the ccTLD for .PH. I’ve been in the Domain Industry for 30 years.

Transparency and Accountability to its members – that is what I would like to see. DotAsia is a $2M/year business and there needs to be more transparency about how this money is spent. Wasteful expenses should be eliminated, and most importantly, Funds should go only towards projects that are approved by the members, and that benefit the countries and goals of the membership. That is what I promise to work towards.

Born in 1972 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan Murad IBRAGIMOV (SOI), quite early displayed a keen interest in media. At the age of 10 he published first reports for a local youth newspaper and later worked at a local radio station as a reporter and RJ.
After enrollment in the Department of Journalism of the Tashkent State University he began to work at the National TV company as a news reporter and pioneered the local media market with his own show Computer Asia .

His TV journalism career was topped by the position of Editor-in-Chief of a nationwide TV channel.

His expertise and marketing skills took him to the hi-tech area in which he introduced to the Uzbekistani market such global players as Intel, Microsoft, and Fujitsu and was later running a local office of a large international system integrator.

Presently, Murad is the Chief Marketing Officer and Policy Lead of UZINFOCOM, a State System Integrator and the ccTLD registry for .UZ . In that capacity he has contributed to an explosive growth of the ccTLD, which expanded nearly 4-fold in just a two-year span, and to a successful deployment of DNSSEC in Uzbekistan.

Murad is fluent in Uzbek, Russian and English

He is married and resides with his wife and children in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Alireza SALEH (SOI) is currently the CTO of .IR ccTLD Registry with increasing role in management affairs. Saleh has a B.Sc. degree in civil engineering but has been involved in networking technology for the last 13 years. Before taking on his present responsibilities, he was involved in various aspects of the operation of Iranian Academic NETwork. Most recently he has been involved in IDN development for Persian language and Arabic script and is one of the monitors of the current ICANN IDN tests. He is a frequent participant in meetings of IETF, RIPE, ICANN, ITU-T, APTLD and CENTR.

Ellen STRICKLAND (SOI) – I have been involved in Internet Governance in the region since the World Summit on the Information Society processes in the early 2000s, while working for the New Zealand government. I have worked for InternetNZ, the home and guardian of the .nz domain, since 2012.

Since joining InternetNZ, I have led the community funding and engagement work and subsequently the policy work of InternetNZ, including leading policy for .nz. My focus at InternetNZ is now international engagement, including at ICANN, the Internet Governance Forum, and at broader Internet Governance related processes and events, including technical community and civil society involvement and inclusion in the Christchurch Call process, a New Zealand and France led iniatiative to help address terrorism and violent extremism online.

I hold a PhD in information and communication policy, having researched Pacific Islands regional digital policy. I had the pleasure to serve as a member, and vice-chair, of the Board of the Pacific Islands chapter of the Internet Society from 2010-2016, and as co-chair of the Pacific Internet Partners from 2012-2015, a regional Internet community focused funding organisation. I also have served as a founding director, since 2012, of Oceania Women’s Network Satellites, an Internet infrastructure research and investment company. I currently serve as a member of the Christchurch Call Advisory Network.

Leonid TODOROV (SOI), earned his M.A. in Linguistics from Moscow State Pedagogical and completed postgraduate studies in international relations, management and business leadership, and economics in Denmark, Taiwan and the US.

Since the onset of the Russian reforms, he served for more than a decade as Chief of Staff to the late PM Yegor Gaidar. His background also includes private sector and academic activities.
In 2008, he joined the Сoordination Сenter for .RU top level domain as Head of Government and International Relations and contributed to the successful launch of the Cyrillic-script IDN ccTLD .РФ and the launch of new gTLDs . ДЕТИ (kids) and .TATAR.

In February 2015, he was appointed as General Manager of the Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association (APTLD).

As a member of the RIGF Organizing Committee, Leonid has also been engaged in creation and promotion of the Russian Internet Governance Forum. He was also sitting on the Multistakeholder Steering Group of the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) until 2020. In 2013-2014, he sat on the ISOC Advisory Business Council and currently holds membership in a number of community councils including the CCNSO Standing Committee on ICANN Strategic and Operational Plan, the dotAsia Registry Advisory Council, and the High-Level Advisory Council of the World internet Conference (China, among others.)

Leonid also is a faculty member of the European Summer School on Internet Governance and the Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy, and an advisor to the Asia Pacific Internet School on Internet Governance .

Leonid’s focus is on ccTLDs’ operation, Internet governance, new gTLDs, public policy and international cooperation in the ICT area, and cybersecurity. He has authored and coauthored a number of publications on these issues, and presented at various national and international events.

He is married and resides with his wife and family in Moscow, Russia.