Board of Directors

i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member
Company Recorded Future
Company Position Technical Director of Threat Data and Enablement

i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board Chair
Company Identity Digital Inc.
Company Position EVP, General Counsel & Secretary

Alvaro Alvarez is EVP, General Counsel & Secretary at Identity Digital Inc., where he advises on its most critical strategic initiatives across business, legal, and policy fronts. Alvaro has almost twenty-five years of experience working with Internet-focused and infrastructure organizations, including nearly nine years at Identity Digital, where he has helped to build its core businesses and expand its reach via acquisition, internal development, and investments in other technology companies.

Prior to Identity Digital, Alvaro served as a senior International Business associate at Perkins Coie LLP, where he represented early-stage, private, and public companies. Alvaro received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School. Alvaro has also studied law at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) and the University of Havana, Cuba, and pursued coursework at the University of London (King’s College) and the London School of Economics. Alvaro is admitted to the State bars of Washington and California (inactive). 

i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member
Company Verisign
Company Position VP of Policy & Government Relations

As vice president of public policy and government relations at Verisign, Keith Drazek is responsible for actively and broadly participating in the development and advocacy of Verisign’s policy interests in multiple arenas involving internet identifiers directly affecting product and services offered by Verisign. Keith brings over 30 years of experience and leadership in the technical functions of the internet and the Domain Name System (DNS), internet policy development, government relations, external affairs and channel management.

Keith joined Verisign in June 2010, and during his tenure he has focused on internet policy development and implementation, as well as government and stakeholder relations. Prior to that, Keith spent 10 years at the United States Department of State, where he developed understanding of the workings of government, diplomacy, leadership and collaboration. Before that, for over a decade, Keith held several management positions in the domain name industry, including a registrar and a registry, where he became actively engaged in the top-level domain and global internet governance space, advocating for the evolution of the governmental multi-stakeholder model.

Keith has been an active member in the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) multi-stakeholder community for more than 20 years, most recently serving as chair of the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) Phase 2A Working Group. Prior to that, he served as chair of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council, as chair of the Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) and was elected to the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Council. Keith was also a member of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Transition Coordination Group (ICG) and a key contributor to the IANA Transition’s ICANN Accountability and Transparency Cross-Community Working Group (CCWG). He has given many educative presentations to groups within the DNS ecosystem on the role of internet infrastructure providers and the key players within that space.

Keith studied international affairs and national security policy at George Washington University.

i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member
Company OVHcloud
Company Position US General Counsel

Suzanne is an experienced General Counsel with a passion for helping people solve problems. She loves the interplay between business and the law. With plenty of international experience, Suzanne is uniquely positioned to understand issues facing the internet infrastructure industry from a variety of nuanced perspectives.

i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member
Company Newfold Digital
Company Position Associate General Counsel

Ursula Baum is Associate General Counsel at Newfold Digital, Inc. a web technology company serving small to medium size businesses globally.

She provides legal counsel to financial and technology institutions in the areas of privacy, insurance, data protection, sanctions, and intellectual property.

Ursula earned her J.D. from the University of Florida Levin College of Law and she is a member of the Florida Bar.

i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member
Company cPanel / WebPros
Company Position Chief Experience Officer

Jesse has more than 20 years’ experience in the hosting industry, where he specializes in developing people; whether that be an employee or a customer. He is a passionate geek who loves anything technology and finds great thrills in solving complex problems.

Jesse invests equal amounts of time into employees because he believes in a simple equation:
happy employee = happy customer.
If he sees something broken, tries to fix it.

i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member
Company Radix
Company Position Vice President, Channel Partnerships

Neha Naik is the Vice President of Channel Partnerships at Radix, the world’s largest nTLD portfolio Registry for new domain extensions. She brings with her over 17 years of experience in the domain name industry, having worked with Registrars, Registries, and Web Hosts across the globe.

Neha’s association with Radix goes all the way back to the initial days of writing applications for the TLDs. In her current role, she spearheads Radix’s growth initiatives and is a key player in building the strong foundation of Radix’s partner network and business relationships. Her role also cuts across sales, product management, policy, and in-depth knowledge of ICANN processes.

Prior to Radix, she led the Account Management team at LogicBoxes, a domain Registrar automation platform and consulting business, which was later acquired by Endurance International Group. Managing and leading several training initiatives, Neha also served as a coach and mentor to the team.

i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member
Company VIPRE Security, a Ziff Davis company
Company Position Chief Commercial Officer, Consumer Security

Subbu Sthanu has over two decades of Corporate Strategy, M&A, P&L management and Product Management experience at both emerging and established enterprise software and services companies. He has served on the executive teams of NetIQ, Idera Corp, & BeyondTrust and on the senior leadership teams of IBM, Novell, RSA, & Trustwave with a focus on accelerated growth through organic and inorganic investments.  In addition, Subbu co-founded 2 VC-funded start-ups, Skyflow & Clearedin and has served as a strategy consultant to Akamai, ESW Capital and several other enterprise B2B solution vendors.  Over the last 20 years, Subbu has managed P&Ls with $50M to $700M in revenue in the cybersecurity & cloud market segments, through defining, delivering, managing & exiting over 100 product & service offerings and working on over 50 acquisitions to date. Subbu holds a Masters degree from MIT and a Bachelors with Honors from the Indian Institute of Technology.  

i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member
Company Cloudflare
Company Position Senior Manager Public Policy, Europe

Petra is a Senior Manager Public Policy, Europe for Cloudflare, based in Brussels. She was previously at Liberty Global and Kreab and has experience as a Policy Adviser for a Member of the European Parliament.

i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member
Company Nord Security
Company Position Co-Founder

NordSec co-founder Tom Okman oversees NordVPN, one of the most popular virtual private network services worldwide. NordVPN protects data transmitted to and from the internet for approximately 14 million consumers.

i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member
Company GoDaddy
Company Position Vice President of Policy

James Bladel is the Vice President of Global Policy at GoDaddy, where he represents the company in ICANN and ccTLD policy development. Previously, Bladel served as Chair of ICANN’s GNSO Council, and was one of three GNSO delegates to the IANA Coordination Group. He currently serves on the Board for the dotME Registry (Montenegro), and is a member elected director for Nominet (.UK).

i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member, Former Board Chair
Company Cheval Capital
Company Position President

Frank is President of Cheval Capital and a Managing Director of Cheval M&A. He has been an investment banker for thirty years helping a wide variety of companies with mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financing, and other financial services.

Frank has a particular expertise with cloud, hosting and related Internet services businesses having spent the last twenty years providing advice and helping many companies in these sectors complete transactions. Clients in these sectors have included companies such as Deluxe/Hostopia, Rackspace, and Endurance among many others of all sizes. A regular speaker at industry conferences, Frank was an early member of the i2Coalition and has been active on the Policy Working Group and lobbying fly-ins.

Prior to forming Cheval Capital in 1996, Frank was President of The Columbia Group, the broker-dealer affiliate of the Columbia Capital Corporation, and was a Vice-President and later President of Reinheimer & Company from 1988 to 1994. At these firms, Frank was an investment banker raising capital through private placements and IPO’s and providing financial advice to various telecommunications companies.