Public Interest Registry - Board of Directors

Susan Estrada is an Internet pioneer. Named a "thinking nerd" by colleagues, she has a deep interest in emerging broadband technologies and in efforts to make those technologies work to solve real-world problems. As founder and president of the newly formed nonprofit FirstMile.US, Estrada is leading the charge toward more education, advocacy and focus on the power and promise of big broadband in the United States.

As president of Aldea Communications since 1993, Estrada and her staff have provided core services for educational initiatives such as CENIC and the National LambdaRail. She provided the vision, managerial savvy and technical know-how to bring CENIC's One Gigabit or Bust Initiative to the fore. By bringing together the interests of research, education, commerce, state and local government, and the general public, Estrada spearheaded an action plan for delivery of one gigabit broadband capabilities to every educational institution, business and home in California by 2010.

In 1988, Estrada founded CERFnet, one of the original regional IP networks. As executive director of CERFnet, she took the initial National Science Foundation funding of $2.8M and successfully commercialized the network for both academic and private-sector users, increasing the network from 25 sites to hundreds. Through her leadership and collaboration with PSInet and UUnet (now MCI), she helped form the interconnection enabling the first commercial Internet traffic via the Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX).

Estrada currently serves as a board member for PIR. She was an appointed member to the FCC's Technological Advisory Committee, an elected trustee of the Internet Society, a founder of the Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX), and a former area director for the Internet Engineering Software Group (IESG) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). She was an appointed member of SBC/Pacific Telesis' Telecommunications Consumer Advisory Panel and a member of the U.S. Federal Networking Council's Advisory Committee (FNCAC).

Estrada is the author of Connecting to the Internet: An O'Reilly Buyer's Guide (a Barnes and Noble best seller) and is listed in the millennium and 1998-1999 editions of Who's Who in Executives and Professionals.

Barbara Fraser (USA) — Vice Chair

Barbara Fraser is the manager of the Security and Integrity Consulting Engineering Group for Cisco Systems Inc. and is responsible for influencing the security features and characteristics of the company's products. Her current activities and interests include improving IPsec protocols, increasing security in IOS and improving security testing in Cisco's overall engineering development processes. She has been an active member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) since 1999. She was editor of Site Security Handbook and has contributed to a number of other RFCs. She currently co-chairs the IPsec working group. Fraser has been a delegate to G-8 cybercrime workshops around the world and was a trustee of the Internet Society from 2000 to 2003.

Glenn Ricart (USA) — Secretary

Glenn Ricart is the managing director of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Center for Advanced Research in San José, CA. He previously served as EVP and CTO for Novell, co-founder and CTO of CenterBeam, director of the Computer Science Center at the University of Maryland College Park, program manager at DARPA, and the head of intramural research computer services at the National Institutes of Health. He has served on the boards of public companies as well as nonprofits, including the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, EDUCOM, and BITNET.

Erik Huizer (Europe)

Erik Huizer is chief strategy officer responsible for strategy, innovation and business development with NOB Cross Media Facilities, a Technicolor company. He is also part-time professor of Internet applications at University of Utrecht. One of the topics he is currently involved in is video over Internet. Huizer also teaches at various developing countries' workshops on Internet policy and technology.

From May 2000 to December 2004, he was a part-time professor for Internet applications at Twente University. Prior to being a part-time professor, he was managing director of the SURFnet Expertise Center (SEC) through June 2000. He was strongly involved with the GigaPort project, the Dutch project for the next-generation Internet.

Huizer has worked for SURFnet on projects that dealt with developing and introducing new services. He also initiated and participated in several European Union projects, including the DESIRE 4th framework project. From December 1991 to April 1995, Huizer was area director for the Applications area of the Internet Engineering Task Force as well as a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group. From 1995 through 2002, he was a member of the Internet Architecture Board. From 1999 to 2002, he was chairman of the Internet Research Task Force.

Huizer currently chairs the Dutch national IPv6 Task Force. He serves on the Board of Trustees for the Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland (the .nl ccTLD registry); the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society; the Advisory Board of Internet Society in the Netherlands; the Advisory Board of the SURFnet; the Kennisnet Innovation Program; and the Advisory Board for the Media and Entertainment management program at the CHN University Netherlands.

He has served on the Board of Directors of Eurofiber. He was member (later chairman) of the board of the Amsterdam Digital City (DDS) as well as chairman of the board of The European Internet Seminars Foundation. Furthermore, he was a member of the Dutch Expert Group on Broadband, a member of the commissie Andriessen (FttH for the city of Amsterdam), a pioneer member of the Internet Society, and co-founder of Electronic Commerce Platform NL and the Dutch chapter of the Internet Society.

Eva Frölich (Europe)

Eva Frölich has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and Internet industries. She has a wealth of experience in international forums, including the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR). Frölich served as a CENTR board member from 1998 to 2001. She also has worked for the incumbent Swedish telecommunications company Telia; NIC-SE, the registry for the Swedish top-level domain, .SE; and Neustar, the registry for .BIZ and .US. Since 2004, Frölich also has served as one of the ICANN NomCom elected to the ccNSO (Country Codes Name Supporting Organisation) Council.