The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Internet Society Board

Trustees

	Zaid Ali, Chairman and President Ali is currently Principal Network Engineer at LinkedIn where he manages Network Engineering and Operations. Prior, Ali was Director of Technical Operations at Genius.com where he was 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 senior network architect at WebEx where he was responsible for building its Media Tone™ network across the US, Europe and Asia, 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. Ali is also a recognized local talent and embraced by numerous 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, Vice-Chair Roger, a native of San Francisco is the chapter’s delegate for the North Regional At-Large Organization (NARALO). Roger attends At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) meetings alongside ICANN meetings. Roger also attends the Internet Society’s International Chapter Delegate meetings and workshops. These commitments provide a channel for San Francisco Bay ISOC members to share a voice at a global Internet governance level. Roger is Founder and CEO of The DotGreen Initiative bringing .green domain names to the Internet for the benefit of people, planet and the green economy worldwide. Aside from her involvement with Internet interests, Roger is appointed by the Marin County Board of Supervisors and currently serves on the Marin County Women’s Commission charged with women’s rights, services and access. Roger and her husband of 24 years, an engineer with the Port of San Francisco have four children.
	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 Sophia Bekele is the CEO of CBS International of Walnut Creek, CA established in 1998 with an objective to support the transfer of technology and knowledge to large and enterprise-wide organizations in emerging markets. Bekele actively advises Corporate governance, ICT & Internet policy and regulatory frameworks, including issues of competition, incumbent intellectual property rights, security and privacy. Bekele has a career track record spanning over a decade of business ownership /operation, working for multinational consulting firms and large financial/banking companies in corporate America such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Bank of America, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi/Union Bank of California and others. Her experiences included technology risk assessment of financial markets and instruments, financial engineering risk management, computer quality assurance, information systems security/auditing, systems controls, technology evaluation, project management, business strategy and process re-engineering. Bekele holds an MBA in Management Information Systems (MIS) from Golden Gate University, San Francisco and a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Systems from SFSU. She is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)Certified Control specialist (CCS) a professional designation for competent knowledge and proficiency in the field of information systems audit, control and security, and Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), a competency in the Goveranance of IT Enterprise. Bekele is an elected Board member of Golden Gate University, San Francisco, a founder and Executive Board member of DotAfrica Initiative. She was an appointed member of ICANN (Internet Corporation Assigned Names & Numbers) policy advisory council on internet resources, elected advisory member to various United Nation ICT Initiatives, former Board Member of ISACA(Information Systems and Control Association), advisory member to the World Affairs Council, ContraCosta.
	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.