New Executive Team Hires
Judy Song-Marshall – Chief of Staff
Judy Song-Marshall brings more than a decade of domain name industry experience working alongside executive management teams. At Public Interest Registry, she will serve as an extension to the president, and leverage her experience to drive strategic, operational and budgetary initiatives. Judy currently works as the Director of Registry Services at Neustar, overseeing the Policy, Industry Affairs, and Compliance teams. Judy also led the marketing team that successfully launched the .nyc top-level domain (TLD) and rebranded the .us country code top-level domain (ccTLD). Judy serves on the ICANNWiki Board and is the Treasurer and a former board member of The Domain Name Association.
Joe Abley – Chief Technology Officer
Joe Abley has more than twenty years of experience working with internet infrastructure in a variety of capacities including in the domain name system. At Public Interest Registry, Joe will be responsible for the organisation's overall technology strategy including managing information security, business intelligence, software development and technical research. Joe previously served as an Infrastructure Scientist for Afilias and as a Director of Domain Names System (DNS) Operations at Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) where he provided direction for the operation of ICANN's production DNS services, including the L Root Server and the systems and processes used to manage Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) in the root zone of the DNS. Joe also actively promotes technology education efforts in developing regions and is a long-standing participant in standards bodies and technical operator communities.
Anand Vora – Vice President, Business Affairs
Anand Vora is a seasoned strategy and business development executive with a decade of experience working in the domain name and internet industries. Anand will be rejoining Public Interest Registry, where his career in the industry began, to oversee business development, channel services, marketing, registry services, and customer operations. In this role, Anand will help expand Public Interest Registry's presence in the marketplace and continue to foster customer and registrar relations. Previously, Anand served as the Director of Business Development at Donuts Inc., where he led the identification, development, creation, and execution of go-to-market strategy. At Donuts, Anand focused primarily on international markets including spearheading Donuts' China operations.
About Public Interest Registry
Public Interest Registry is a nonprofit corporation that operates the .org top-level domain — the world's third largest "generic" top-level domain with more than 10 million domain names registered worldwide. As an advocate for collaboration, safety and security on the internet, Public Interest Registry's mission is to educate and enable the global noncommercial community to use the internet more effectively, and to take a leadership position among internet stakeholders on policy and other issues relating to the domain naming system. Public Interest Registry was founded by the Internet Society (internetsociety.org) in 2002 and is based in Reston, Virginia, USA.
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