The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Internet Society Board

Members

	Zaid Ali, President / Chairman Ali is Director of Technical Operations at Genius.com where he is responsible for managing all aspects of data center, network operations, email deliverability and corporate IT. Prior, he managed an engineering team at Procera Networks and was responsible for incorporating one of the first deep packet pattern matching engines on an Intel IXP network processor. Ali was network architect at WebEx where he was responsible for building its Media Tone™ network across the US and Europe, WebEx was later acquired by Cisco. Before moving to Silicon Valley in 1998, Ali spent much of his earlier career in Internet Development in his native Fiji where he built the first telemedicine network for a medical university and was instrumental in building the first non-profit ISP in the South Pacific. Ali has worked as a consultant for UN development agencies on sustainable Internet development. Born to parents of Indian and Afghani descent, Ali grew up listening to his grandfather’s Arabic music and was drawn to the complex rhythmic structures played on the Arabic tabla (doumbek). Ali is a recognized local talent and embraced by numberous Bay Area Arabic musicians for his authentic drumming on the Dharbuka, Riqq and frame drum with his band Al Azifoon. Ali holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Physics from University of the South Pacific
	Annalisa Roger, VP / Vice-Chair Roger, a native of San Francisco is the chapter’s delegate at the North American Regional At-Large Organization (NARALO) recognized by the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and numbers (ICANN). This provides a channel for San Francisco Bay ISOC members to stay informed and voice their opinions at a global Internet governance level. Roger is Founder and CEO of the non-profit DotGreen Registry Corporation bringing .green domain names to the Internet for the benefit of people, planet and promotion of the green economy worldwide. In the midst of the environmental/climate change and world economic challenges, Roger believes the Internet is key to building and networking partnerships for a positive and healthy future for all children around the world. Roger is the daughter of the late Peter J. deBlanc, member of IEEE and entrepreneur behind outdoor sound systems of the historical rock concerts of the 1960’s, consultant of early computer technology to developing countries/governments through the UN, and is most known for bringing the Internet to the Caribbean & U.S. Virgin Islands, instrumental in its country code TLD, .vi as well as its first ISP and website. He was chairman of the ccNSO and early participant of ICANN. Roger is a recent member of the Board Candidate Evaluation Committee (BCEC) which is preparing a slate of candidates for election by ALAC to the ICANN Board of Directors. Prior to her involvement with the Internet Society, Roger traveled and lived overseas during her early career as a fashion model. Since 1987, she has been engaged in real estate investments; design, renovation, and management, as well as child development, homeschooling and environmental awareness. Roger and her husband of 23 years, an engineer with the Port of San Francisco have four children: their son and daughter are both engineering students at the University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, San Diego, while their younger son and daughter are both in high school
	Ken Krechmer, Treasurer Krechmer is a founder and the technical editor of Communications Standards Review and Communications Standards Summary 1990 -2002, is also a winner of first prize at the World Standards Day paper competition in 1995 and 2000. Ken participated in the development of the International Telecommunications Union Recommendations for Group 3 facsimile (T.30), data modems (V.8, V.8bis, V.32, V.32bis, V.34, V.90), and Digital Subscriber Line transceivers (G.994.1). In 2006 he received a joint second prize in the IEC Centenary Challenge paper competition. He was Program Chair of the Standards and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT) conference in USA, Netherlands, Canada and Japan. Krechmer teaches at Stanford Continuing Studies, and is a lecturer at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA. Krechmer is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the Society of Engineering Standards. He learns from his seven delightful grandchildren and applies his technical interests to research, writing and teaching about standards.
	Sophia Bekele, Board Secretary
	Franck Martin, Board Member Martin is the Senior Systems engineer at Genius.com in Silicon Valley. He also serves as Chief Technology Officer of Avonsys in Fiji. He looks after the technical aspects of the company's operations and leads the technical support group. Franck is an ICT specialist with over 15 years experience on the many aspects of modern information systems, including database systems, network routing and protocols, software development and systems support. Prior to joining Avonsys, Franck worked for SOPAC, a Pacific-based regional inter-governmental organisation, where he led many projects and initiatives in Internet and technology development. During this time he established the operations of two ccTLDs (country code Top Level Domains) as well as an Internet Service Provider. Martin participates in IETF and is also a regular contributor to the open source community, and the Internet community, where he served on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society. Franck is a French national and a graduate of the École Centrale de Marseille. Martin is an avid Kite Surfer.
	Ted Hardie, Board Member Ted Hardie is currently Managing Director Director for Panasonic's Wireless Research Laboratory. His personal research interests cover a broad range of Internet technologies, but are currently focused on novel data distribution methods, mesh and peer networks, locality of service, and identifiers for non-hierarchical systems. Dr. Hardie first worked in the Internet field in 1988 when he joined the operations staff of the SRI NIC. He later became the technical lead for the NASA NIC, part of the NASA Science Internet project. After leaving NASA, he joined Equinix as its initial Director of Engineering before taking on the role of Director of Research and Development. He was an early-stage executive at Nominum, and he remains on Nominum's technical advisory board. While he was Qualcomm's Director of Internet and Wireless, he served the Internet community as a member of the Internet Architecture Board and as an Applications Area Director for the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). He is the author of multiple RFCs. He has also been an invited speaker and document reviewer for many operational meetings and technical conferences. Dr. Hardie received his bachelor’s degree from Yale and his doctorate from Stanford. He has been a Fulbright Fellow and a Yale-China Fellow, both in Hong Kong. Dr. Hardie has been an ISOC Trustee since June 2007, and has served as its Treasurer and a member of its Executive Committee since 2008.