1) Your Name: | <p><span>Michael Young</span></p> |
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| 2) Stakeholder Group: | Registries |
3) Constituency: | Not Applicable |
4) ICANN Affiliation (if not covered by item 2 or 3): | |
5) Please identify your current employer(s): | <p><span>Architelos is a TLD consulting and managed registry services company founded by senior level executives with more than 30 years of combined hands-on experience.</span></p> |
6) Please identify your current position(s): | <p><span>CTO and Product Officer</span></p> |
7) Please identify the type(s) of work performed: | <p><span>I oversee product development, security and technology, integration services and services delivery platforms for Architelos. In this role I am charged with delivering turn-key solutions for “front-office” registry and TLD management. Front-office solutions comprise the systems, procedures and processes a new registry would need to be operational on day one. These include: contracts compliance and management, automated workflows for channel signup and readiness, financial and business operations, as well as ties to registry infrastructure providers.</span></p> |
8) Please identify your declared country of primary residence (e.g., country to which you pay taxes): | <p>Canada</p> |
9) Please list any financial relationship beyond de minimus stock ownership you may have with any company that to your knowledge has a financial relationship or contract with ICANN: | <p><span>I am a 50% owner of UpsideConsulting that has done consulting work for ICANN in 2011. UpsideConsulting in turn has a significant ownership stake in Architelos. Currently neither UpsideConsulting or Architelos is engaged financially or contracted with or for ICANN.</span></p> |
10) Do you believe you are participating in the GNSO policy process as a representative of any individual or entity, whether paid or unpaid? | Yes |
| If the answer is “Yes,” please provide the name of the represented individual or entity. (If professional ethical obligations prevent you from disclosing this information, please enter "Private"): | <p><span>Private</span></p> |
| 11) Please identify any other relevant arrangements, interests, or benefits as requested in the following two questions: | |
a) Do you have any type of material interest in ICANN GNSO policy development processes and outcomes? | Yes |
If the answer is “yes,” please describe the material interest in ICANN GNSO policy development processes and outcomes: | <p><span>Architelos' primary customer space is in the service of registry operators, registry service providers, and registrars. I am therefore inclined towards their benefit.</span></p> |
b) Are there any arrangements/agreements between you and any other group, constituency or person(s) regarding your participation as a work team member? | Yes |
If the answer is “yes,” please describe the arrangements/agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s): | <p><span>My work in the recent working group creating a survery on Whois service requirements is independently sponsored by Architelos and myself. Work in the RySG, is as a representative of observer status members, intending to apply for a NTLD. I may, from time to time, represent the RySG in various GNSO working groups.</span></p> |
12) Please identify any Working Groups or other chartered teams in which you are participating (include acronyms, if applicable): |
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13) Additional Information (optional): | |
14) Page last revised: | 28-Feb-2013 |
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