The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) mourns the loss of respected industry entrepreneur Karl Zimmerman, who was the CEO and Founder of member company Steadfast, and a friend to many within the Internet infrastructure industry. Karl was an honest broker of managed cloud services, garnering deep respect among his clients and peers alike. Under his leadership, […]
Intermediary Liability, Internet Safety, Press Releases, US Policy
Washington DC; March 5th, 2020 – Today, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham and Senator Richard Blumenthal introduced the “Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2020” or the “EARN IT Act of 2020”. i2Coalition Executive Director Christian Dawson issued the following statement: “The i2Coalition is the voice for the Internet’s infrastructure. […]
i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board Vice-Chair
Company EdgeUno
Company Position Chief Growth Officer
Nick has been in the hosting industry for more than 15 years, serving in senior leadership positions in companies such as Amazon, as a business manager in corporate development, and as general manager and VP of new product development at UK2 Group, leading the development of key products such as VPS.NET and 100TB.com. He participated in the IPO of Rightside, the former parent company of eNom and Name.com, as well as in the introduction of new gTLDs such as .LIVE and .ROCKS.
Nick served as co-founder and General Manager of StackPath’s VPN business until its acquisition by J2 Global.
i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member
Company CloudFlare
Company Position Head of European Public Policy
Caroline Greer is Cloudflare’s Head of European Policy, leading the company’s public policy and advocacy initiatives, and addressing a wide range of digital policy goals. Caroline focuses in particular on privacy and data protection, content moderation and intermediary liability, cybercrime, cybersecurity and digital rights issues.
Greer has more than 15 years of private and public sector experience in Internet policy, telecommunications regulation and the DNS industry. She is skilled at crisis management, implementing advocacy campaigns, effective multistakeholder engagement, building coalitions, and navigating regulatory change across a range of jurisdictions. She is passionate about digital innovation, tech for good, and building a better Internet.
i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member
Todd Mitchell is a data center and cloud space executive, and a seasoned leader and strategist in enterprise cloud, managed security, compliance, public cloud, private cloud, hybrid hosting, data centers, colocation, and hosting.
Mitchell has worn many hats spanning product, sales, customer support, and operations.
He has been COO of Dataprise, Strategy & Operations VP at Rackspace, Strategic Planning VP at SoftLayer Technologies, GM at ThePlanet.com, and President & COO at Site5.
After years in the the Internet security industry, tech entrepreneur Sebastian Schaub saw a need to provide privacy as a basic human right, and set out to create an affordable virtual private network that could offer privacy and security. In 2012, he launched this as hide.me. In the years that followed, the popularity of VPNs […]
Legislative Update, Premium Content, US Policy
Your update on important Internet policy issues for the period from mid-January to mid-February 2020 OUTLOOK Congressional work on tech industry oversight and legislation has ramped up following the completion of the impeachment proceedings in the Senate and the return to legislative business as usual in both chambers of Congress. Section 230/Intermediary Liability. As expected, Congress […]
Announcements, Internet Governance, Privacy
In an era where online privacy is a key concern, a lot of people may wonder how WHOIS – the directory that holds the name, address, and other information for domain registrants – came to be in the first place, and where it’s going. This blog post outlines how WHOIS began in the very early […]
Digital Trade, Encryption, Internet Governance, Open Internet, Privacy
Impending Changes to India’s Internet Intermediary Rules Raise Concern for Indian Technology Innovation, Free Speech and Global Competitiveness India is at the cusp of amending its intermediary liability regime that will expand the due diligence measures required to avail safe harbor to include proactive monitoring, mandatory local incorporation, enabling the traceability of originators (which would […]
Digital Trade, Press Releases, US Policy
— PRESS RELEASE — Washington D.C., January 29, 2020 – President Donald Trump signed into U.S. law a new North American trade pact, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), on Wednesday with digital provisions that will help ensure continued economic growth and innovation across the three member countries. i2Coalition co-founder and policy working group chair David Snead has […]
