Member Spotlight, The Internet Infrastructure Industry
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Cybersecurity, i2Brew, Open Internet, The Internet Infrastructure Industry, US Policy
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Meet i2Coalition Members and Internet Policy Experts.
Jay has been involved in the web hosting and data center industries since 1997. He is the co-founder and CTO of Handy Networks, LLC. Jay has wide-ranging, extensive experience in all facets of the industry and is one of the few individuals worldwide to have achieved cPanel’s Master level certification. In addition, Jay has long been involved in internet governance at many levels, attending ARIN, IGF and ICANN meetings.
i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member
Company Equinix
Company Position Sr Director of Compliance, Ethics & Governmental Affairs
Mary Anne Wellman is the Sr Director of Compliance, Ethics & Governmental Affairs for Equinix. She also serves as Equinix’s Compliance Officer. Before joining Equinix in 2006, Mary Anne was a legal and accounting consultant to various public and start-up companies in Silicon Valley. From 1998 to 2003 Mary Anne held several management positions at Exodus Communications, Inc., including Vice President of Finance, Director of Business Operations, and Senior Corporate Counsel. Prior to her legal career, Mary Anne held several positions in the field of public accounting, specializing in tax matters.
Mary Anne holds an M.B.A (Finance and Marketing) from Santa Clara University, a J.D. from Santa Clara University, a. B.S. in Accounting from San Jose State University and is a member of the State Bar of California.
i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Treasurer
Company Jumpline Inc.
Company Position CEO
Andy Mentges is the Treasurer of the i2Coalition. Andy serves as the CEO of Jumpline, Inc. Founded in 1997, Jumpline was one of the first companies to focus entirely on high-quality web hosting.
i2Coalition Group Board of Advisors
i2Coalition Position Board of Advisors Member
Company World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Company Position Policy Counsel
Wendy Seltzer is Policy Counsel to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where she leads the Technology & Society Domain’s focus on privacy, security, web payments, and social web standards. As a visiting Fellow with Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, she researches openness in intellectual property, innovation, privacy, and free expression online. As a Fellow with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Tor Project, promoting privacy and anonymity research, education, and technology; and the World Wide Web Foundation, devoted to achieving the world in which all people can use the Web to communicate, collaborate and innovate freely. She seeks to improve technology policy in support of user-driven innovation and communication. Wendy speaks and writes on copyright, trademark, patent, open source, privacy, and the public interest online. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School.
i2Coalition Group Board of Advisors
i2Coalition Position Board of Advisors Member
Company FireEye
Company Position Senior Intelligence Researcher
At FireEye, Nart Villenueve focuses on cyber-espionage and the criminal underground. Nart’s research, including prior work at Trend Micro and the University of Toronto, led to the discovery and documentation of multiple malware-based espionage campaigns, in-depth reports on cybercrime networks and technical analysis of Internet censorship and surveillance regimes.
i2Coalition Group Board of Advisors
i2Coalition Position Board of Advisors Member
Company Consumer Technology Association (CTA)
Company Position Vice President Of Government Affairs
Petricone is responsible for representing the CE industry’s position before Congress and the FCC on critical issues such as Internet freedom, wireless spectrum, and high-skilled immigration. He is a frequent speaker on policy issues impacting the innovation industry. He has been frequently listed as one of DC’s top technology lobbyists.
Petricone received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and his undergraduate degree from Tufts University.
i2Coalition Group Board of Advisors
i2Coalition Position Board of Advisors Member
Company The 451 Group
Company Position Hosting And Cloud Research Manager
Liam Eagle covers the Service Provider space for 451 Research, focusing on web and application hosting, managed hosting and cloud infrastructure. His research focuses in part on the adaptation of traditional hosting technologies and models to accommodate emerging needs. These include web presence SaaS, the focus on web professionals and the channel market for cloud infrastructure. Liam has closely covered the hosting market for more than 10 years, giving him a front-row seat for many of the transformative trends that shaped the business, including the emergence of virtualization and cloud technologies, and the development of the hosting market’s partner ecosystem.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Liam was editor-in-chief at the Web Host Industry Review, where he managed a full-time editorial staff of four, along with dozens of freelancers and other contributors. In several years as co-chair of HostingCon, he built the educational program for one of the industry’s most highly regarded and well-attended events. Liam has spoken at the Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit, HostingCon, Parallels Summit, Open-Xchange Summit and other industry events. He holds a bachelor of journalism degree from Ryerson University in Toronto.
Access To Data, Privacy, US Policy
CCIA, Computer & Communications Industry Association, Consumer Technology Association, CTA, GigaNews, IA, Internet Association, Livewire, Livewire services, Perfect 10, Perfect 10 Amicus, US District Court for the Central District of California
The suit could have wide-reaching consequences, greatly increasing the liability risk for Internet service providers.
