Nominees

Anastasia would like to present her nomination for a seat on the NRO NC because of her interest in the ASO AC Global Policy Development Process. She is driven by her passion for internet governance and is convinced this will be the perfect opportunity to learn more about RIPE and its role in the GPDP, as well as the NC's other advisory functions to the ICANN Board and ASO AC, knowledge that she will put to use for the advancement of the community priorities.

Anastasia is a young professional in Brussels, where she advises companies active on the digital market on the impact of regulations and public policy.  As part of her training as a consultant, she has worked with RIPE NCC on a number of EU policy files covering data protection and cybersecurity. She is also an alumni of ICANN63 NextGen 2018, where she presented her research on the impact of the EU data protection policy on the whois database. Anastasia graduated with a Bachelor in European Studies from Sofia University, Bulgaria and a Master of Arts in EU International Relations from College of Europe, Belgium. She speaks English, Bulgarian, French, Russian and her native Romanian.

Since May 2021, Anastasia has been a mentee in the RIPE Mentoring programme.

Name of Nominee:
Salam Yamout

Nominee's country of residence:
Netherlands

Nominee's organisation or employer:
Netflix

Nominee's email address:
salamyamout [at] gmail [dot] com

Name of nominating individual:
Self

Motivation for nomination:
I feel an integral member of the numbers community after I served on the RIPE NCC board for 6 years (2013-2019).  I am currently a member of the Code of Conduct working group and MENOG.  I am familiar with ICANN mandate and functions as I am a member of the Middle East and Adjoining Countries (MEAC) working group and attended several ICANN meetings.  

Biographical information:

Salam Yamout is a Computer Engineer with a passion revolving around people, the Internet, and the interactions between them. She is an expert in Internet Governance and has participated in many IGF, ICANN, and RIPE Meetings over the last fifteen years. She has also volunteered in numerous working groups.

Salam’s career did not follow a standard path. She is the Director, Open Connect Partner Engagement EMEA at Netflix since April 2021 where she is responsible for strategy and interconnection activities for two subregions. Between 2016 and 2019, she headed the Middle East Regional Bureau of the Internet Society and before that, she was the National ICT Strategy Coordinator at the Office of the Prime Minister of Lebanon Between 2010 and 2016. Over the course of her career, she has worked with industry leaders such as Cisco Systems, and consulted with international organisations such as the European Union, UNDP, and ESCWA.

She served on the boards of various organisations such as the RIPE NCC, LEBIX (the Lebanese Internet Exchange Point), LLWB (Lebanese League of Women in Business), the Building Block Fund, and the National Bloc.

Salam holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Ecole Supérieure des Affaires (ESA) in Beirut and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona.

Name of nominee:
Töma Gavrichenkov

Nominee's country of residence:
Cyprus

Nominee's organisation or employer:
Servers.com

Nominee's email address:
ximaera [at] gmail [dot] com

Name of Nominating Individual:
Sergey Myasoedov

Motivation for nomination:
Töma has been an active participant of several ICANN and RIPE NCC activities in Eastern Europe. Over the last three years, he has represented his company in the appropriate ICANN constituency and was serving as the Vice-Chair and subsequently as the Chair of the Eurasian Network Operators Group (ENOG), a RIPE NCC Regional Meeting, demonstrating his willingness to invest time into the work necessary for the Internet community.

As the former CTO of an European Internet connectivity provider, he was responsible for the allocation and management of IP addresses for multiple LIRs and understands the policy making process well.

Biographical Information:

Since graduating from Moscow State University in 2010 ( with a Master's degree in Mathematics and Systems Programming) Töma has worked for over 11 years in different areas of computer networking, starting as a third-level support engineer at a 3G equipment vendor and then moving on to the greener pastures of the Internet.

Töma served as the Chief Technology Officer of Qrator Labs, a Czech-based Internet connectivity and DDoS mitigation provider, between 2015 and 2021. As part of that role, he brought up the software-defined network that served tens of thousands customers around the world with zero downtime, implemented IP allocation procedures for the customers in Europe and the Middle East, supervised the development of the DNS service platform, and represented the company
in external communications.

During the same period he also volunteered for the ICANN Fellowship programme, first as a Fellow and then serving as a Fellowship Alumni Coach, was an active member of the Eurasian Network Operators Group Programme Committee, represented his employer in the ICANN GNSO ISPCP constituency, and committed to the RIPE Executive Board Election Task Force and later to the Executive Board Election Code of Conduct Team. As a part of his career, he has taken courses in technology and innovation at Berkeley, California; sustainable innovation at the University of British Columbia; and behavioural management at Yale. He is now the Product Director of Servers.com, an infrastructure-as-a-service company with data centres in Amsterdam, London, Luxembourg, and Moscow.

Töma is a frequent speaker at Internet conferences, network operator group meetings, and a regular guest speaker at universities, covering the aspects of DNS (including anycast DNS implementations and the optimisations of DNS authoritative servers), BGP and other network protocol implementations, Internet infrastructure, policy making
process, technical debt, and the impact of the latter on information security. His research about the adverse effect that BGP security gaps had on the data encryption and privacy in 2015 was picked up and continued in Princeton University.

Moving between the countries on his career path allowed Töma to understand the importance of dialogue and diverse opinions from all over the RIPE region and beyond, and the value of these opinions for the global policy development process. Internet address communities are among the most important stakeholders defining ICANN’s future objectives as well as current operational procedures. As a deeply technical person with a recent management background, Töma believes that with the trust of the RIPE community he could add a lot of value to the NRO NC and represent the RIPE community well, making sure everyone is heard.