About: Leadership & Staff
Board of Directors
Suzanne Law Marisa
Suzanne Law Marisa
Subbu Sthanu
Subbu Sthanu
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.
Prudence Malinki
Prudence Malinki
i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member
Company Markmonitor
Company Position Head of Industry Relations
With over a decade’s worth of experience in the domain industry, Prudence has extensive experience in corporate domain portfolio management, Registry, Registrar and vendor relationships.
Leading the Global Industry Relations team, Prudence has extended the policy and industry outreach of the Markmonitor business. She sits on the PIR Advisory Council , NZ Registrars Forum, and .ie Policy Advisory Committee, the DNS.be Registrar Forum, and .se Registrar Board; as well as sitting on the Council at ICANN representing the Registrars. Prudence is a strong voice within ICANN’s Registrar Stakeholder Group, and is a passionate advocate for MarkMonitor clients and their interests.
Petra Arts
Petra Arts
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.
Neha Naik
Neha Naik
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.
Keith Drazek
Keith Drazek
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.
Jon Morgan
Jon Morgan
i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member
Company Recorded Future
Company Position Technical Director of Threat Data and Enablement
Jesse Asklund
Jesse Asklund
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.
James Bladel
James Bladel
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).
Frank Stiff
Frank Stiff
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.
Daugirdas Jankus
Daugirdas Jankus
i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Board of Directors Member
Company Hostinger
Company Position CEO
Daugirdas Jankus is the CEO of web hosting company Hostinger. During his tenure as CMO, he helped Hostinger achieve 10x growth in five years. An “AI optimist”, he wants to empower everyone with the vast potential of the Internet.
Christian Dawson
Christian Dawson
i2Coalition Groups Board of Directors Member, Former Board Chair
i2Coalition Staff Co-Founder & Executive Director
LinkedIn
SpeakerHub
Christian Dawson is the Co-Founder of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) where he works to make the Internet a better, safer place for the businesses that make up the Cloud. Dawson spent 16 years as an executive at web hosting provider ServInt. While there, he co-founded the Save Hosting initiative, designed to galvanize web hosting providers in their opposition of PIPA & SOPA. He went on to help found the i2Coalition to ensure that those who build the infrastructure of the Internet have a voice in all matters of public policy that affect them. He is a staunch advocate for Internet freedom as a tool for social and economic growth by fostering the growth and expansion of the Internet economy. Dawson served as the Chairman of the i2Coalition Board from 2012 to 2016. As of January 2016, Dawson has joined the i2Coalition in a full-time position as its first Executive Director.
Alvaro Alvarez
Alvaro Alvarez
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).
Staff Leadership
Craig Churchward
Craig Churchward
i2Coalition Controller
Craig Churchward has seen many aspects of the accounting world from both sides: from the outside looking in from his time with KPMG (a big four accounting firm), as an external auditor, and from the inside looking out from his extensive accounting experience, and finance leadership roles, working for medium-to-large organizations across Canada. While Craig’s expertise lies in asset management and taking the financial lead on large capital projects (most recently, the Destination Project, a $300 million dollar building in Southern Alberta, Canada), he is also highly skilled in all aspects of the accounting cycle. Craig has an instinctive ability to look deep into financial processes and accounting policy to find operationally critical efficiencies.
Christian Dawson
Christian Dawson
i2Coalition Groups Board of Directors Member, Former Board Chair
i2Coalition Staff Co-Founder & Executive Director
LinkedIn
SpeakerHub
Christian Dawson is the Co-Founder of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) where he works to make the Internet a better, safer place for the businesses that make up the Cloud. Dawson spent 16 years as an executive at web hosting provider ServInt. While there, he co-founded the Save Hosting initiative, designed to galvanize web hosting providers in their opposition of PIPA & SOPA. He went on to help found the i2Coalition to ensure that those who build the infrastructure of the Internet have a voice in all matters of public policy that affect them. He is a staunch advocate for Internet freedom as a tool for social and economic growth by fostering the growth and expansion of the Internet economy. Dawson served as the Chairman of the i2Coalition Board from 2012 to 2016. As of January 2016, Dawson has joined the i2Coalition in a full-time position as its first Executive Director.
Hilary Osborne
Hilary Osborne
i2Coalition Membership Director
Hilary Osborne is the Membership Director of the i2Coalition. Hilary’s role in growing and sustaining i2Coalition has built it into the largest Internet association in North America, and one of the largest in the world. Hilary does this with a dedication to ensuring member companies receive optimal value for their membership. Hilary carries that commitment to her customers into her role as co-founder of the growth consultancy Open Eye, where she is a licensed leadership coach.
Jennifer Price
Jennifer Price
i2Coalition Chief of Staff
Jennifer Price brings over a decade of experience in sales, brand strategy, project coordination and business development. Her experience involves a variety of diverse roles in various industries including Marketing, Sales and Event Management.
As project manager at i2Coalition, Jennifer provides organizational visibility, working group strategies and communications.
Ann Morton
Ann Morton
i2Coalition Senior Policy Director
Ann Morton is the Senior Policy Director of the i2Coalition, bringing more than 25 years of Internet and telecommunications policy and government relations experience representing the Fortune 500, high-growth start-ups, and non-profits before Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Federal Communications Commission. She leads the formulation and execution of i2Coalition’s policy initiatives, including intermediary liability, digital copyright, cybersecurity, privacy, Internet governance, artificial intelligence, and broadband deployment. Prior to joining the i2Coalition, Ann was a Senior Vice President in two Washington public affairs firms specializing in information and communications technology policy.
Ann served as Legislative Counsel to former Representative Rick Boucher (9th-VA), a co-founder of the Congressional Internet Caucus, and advanced his leadership and legislative priorities before both the House Judiciary Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee, including enactment of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act. Earlier in her career Ann practiced telecommunications regulatory law with two leading Washington, D.C. law firms. Ann is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and earned her law degree from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Jordan Yerman
Jordan Yerman
i2Coalition Staff Copywriter
Jordan has more than 15 years’ international experience in writing, content management, journalism, and communications coordination; balancing clients, deadlines, and time zones. In writing for publications and events, he has created content for airline- and internet infrastructure industry executive audiences.
Anne Shoemaker
Anne Shoemaker
i2Coalition Senior Marketing Consultant
Anne develops marketing and communications plans intended to broaden awareness of i2Coalition programs, stimulate member engagement in working groups and advocacy efforts, and attract new members. Colleagues call on Anne to bring clarity and impact to messaging, communicating complex topics in a straightforward manner.
Working Group Chairs
Sanaea Daruwalla-EWDCI
Sanaea Daruwalla-EWDCI
Sanaea is the Chief Legal Officer at Zyte, one of the world’s leading web data extraction software and services providers. She has nearly 20 years of experience representing a wide variety of clients, ranging from Fortune 500 to emerging tech companies and start-ups. She has held legal, compliance, and operations C-level roles in various tech companies over the last decade.
Sanaea is one of the leading experts on web data extraction laws, which include contract, data protection, copyright, and AI laws, and frequently speaks and writes about ethical web data extraction and compliance. She is very passionate about ethical and compliant open access to web data and is excited to be a part of creating industry standards and best practices as co-chair of the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative.
Lauren Hendry Parsons-VTI
Lauren Hendry Parsons-VTI
i2Coalition Group VPN Trust Initiative
i2Coalition Position Working Group Chair
Company ExpressVPN
Company Position Director, Communications & Advocacy
Press Contact
Lauren Hendry Parsons is co-Chair of the VTI and Director of Communications & Advocacy at ExpressVPN, where she acts as a Digital Rights Advocate to help people understand the importance of digital privacy and security. She believes that protecting online rights and freedoms has never been more critical and works to empower over four million users in 180 countries to take control of their online experience. Lauren has spent over 15 years working in strategic communications and stakeholder engagement across APAC and the UK and is an experienced public speaker as well as an accredited mediator.
Emilija Beržanskaitė-VTI
Emilija Beržanskaitė-VTI
i2Coalition Group VPN Trust Initiative
i2Coalition Position Working Group Chair
Company Nord Security
Company Position Product Counsel
Press Contact
Emilija Beržanskaitė is Product Counsel at Nord Security, where she primarily specializes in regulatory matters in the digital space. She has in-depth experience in EU law, spanning cybersecurity, online safety, and competition law, and is accredited with CIPP/E certification in data protection.
Denas Grybauskas-EWDCI
Denas Grybauskas-EWDCI
i2Coalition Group Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative (EWDCI)
i2Coalition Position Working Group Chair
Company Oxylabs
Company Position Head of Legal
As a Head of Legal at Oxylabs, a leading web intelligence collection platform, Denas oversees a team of more than 10 legal professionals who work in various fields from commercial, patent law to litigation processes. Before joining Oxylabs, Denas Grybauskas had been polishing his legal experience in a global law firm, Eversheds Sutherland, gained business acumen in Vilniaus Prekyba, the largest Lithuanian company group, and even co-founded a legal startup.
Denas’ skills and interest in the tech world allowed him to establish himself as one of the leading legal counsels in the industry. Due to his extensive expertise in the field, Denas also became a well-known thought leader and one of the voices of the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative, providing commentaries on the biggest industry events to the media and sharing his knowledge with students and professors at prestigious universities.
David Snead-Policy
David Snead-Policy
David Snead is the General Counsel for cPanel. He is responsible for cPanel’s global legal operations and is a member of the company’s management team. In this role, he has principal responsibility for customer-facing agreements, regulatory compliance, vendor and partner negotiations, intellectual property, brand communication, mergers and acquisitions, legislative and international business issues. David has provided advice and counsel to technology companies since 1995 beginning with a practice based on technology exports. Since 1999, his practice has focused exclusively on the Internet infrastructure industry. Since his practice began, he has worked in large firms, as in-house counsel, and as a solo practitioner. In 2011 he co-founded the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (I2Coalition), an advocacy organization for the Internet infrastructure industry. One of the earliest opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the i2Coalition has developed into a voice for a previously unrepresented industry. He manages the group’s global public policy portfolio. David received his J.D. in 1991 from Georgetown University Law Center and his B.A. in 1987 in International Affairs from Trinity University in San Antonio. He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and State of New Mexico.
