NANOG Appoints Edward McNair As Its New Executive Director
March 14 2018 - 9:12AM
The North American Network Operators Group (NANOG), an association
of Internet engineering, architecture and operations professionals,
today announces the appointment of Edward McNair as its new
Executive Director. In this role, Mr. McNair will provide
leadership for NANOG’s growth strategy, operations, member services
and educational programs, and marketing communications. In
addition, he will be responsible for oversight of the association’s
events, sponsorship, partnership development, technology tools, as
well as governance policies and practices.
Mr. McNair is the co-founder of Kaskadian, an
agency that provides branding, marketing and sales support, as well
as Webcasting services. Prior to Kaskadian, he served as
Chief Executive Officer for Verilan, an IT company that delivered
just-in-time, enterprise quality networks, and he also held
executive roles where Mr. McNair served as a Creative Director for
the WiMAX Forum, a global Internet and telecom consortium. Mr.
McNair is a dedicated Internet enthusiast, previously providing
consulting and corporate development services to such organizations
as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN),
Intel® and Facebook.
“After a year-long search spearheaded by a
Board-appointed Executive Search Committee, it is with great
pleasure that we appoint Edward McNair as NANOG’s new Executive
Director,” states Chair of NANOG Executive Director Search
Committee and NANOG Treasurer, Will Charnock. “Edward
possesses a rare hybrid of technical expertise and marketing
experience serving global brands and international associations
that support the Internet, which we anticipate will be an immediate
asset to guiding NANOG through its next phase of evolution.
At the same time, we express our deep gratitude to Betty Burke,
NANOG’s previous Executive Director, whose dedication and tireless
energy was responsible for pivotal organizational milestones and a
significant increase in member and sponsor participation during her
tenure.”
Betty Burke will remain with NANOG during the
transition of the organization’s leadership. In 2010, Ms.
Burke was instrumental in the transition of NANOG from the Merit
Network, Inc. to NewNOG, Inc., which was officially incorporated as
a 501(c)(3) educational, nonprofit, membership-based
organization. Since then, attendance at NANOG meetings has
grown nearly 60 percent.
The appointment of Mr. McNair to Executive
Director was recommended by a NANOG subcommittee that included Greg
Dendy, Director Product Manager, Interconnection for Equinix, along
with two members of the Board of Directors, William Charnock as
Chair of the Executive Director Search Committee and David Temkin,
VP of Network at Netflix. The Executive Director reports to
the entire Board which also includes Chair, Ryan Donnelly, Senior
Director of Network Engineering at Salesforce; Vice Chair, Patrick
Gilmore; Program Committee Chair, Ryan Woolley, Director of Global
Network Architecture at Netflix; and Members, L. Sean Kennedy,
Verizon; and Tina Morris, Technical Business Developer at Amazon
Web Services.
“It is an honor to be named the new Executive
Director of NANOG, a community that I have been part of for many
years,” comments Mr. McNair. “Given the rise in Over-the-Top
video, Big Data, social media and the mobile space, as well as the
advent of the IoT and smart cities, NANOG is expected to
significantly increase its membership and sponsorship base as the
Internet continues its exponential growth over the coming
years. I look forward to working with the NANOG Board of
Directors as we further expand this vital meeting point for
professionals who make the Internet work.”
Mr. McNair’s first meeting as NANOG’s new
Executive Director will be at NANOG 73, taking place June 25-27,
2018, in Denver, Colorado. NANOG 73 is sponsored by CoreSite
Realty Corporation (NYSE:COR), a premier provider of secure,
reliable, high-performance data center and interconnection
solutions across the U.S.
To learn more about NANOG, please visit www.nanog.org.
About NANOG
The North American Network Operators Group
(NANOG) is an association of Internet engineering, architecture and
operations professionals. NANOG’s core focus is on continuous
improvement of the data transmission technologies, practices, and
facilities that make the Internet function. Our members are
typically drawn from the core engineering and product staffs of the
major North American carriers, content providers, hosting and cloud
companies, multi-tenant data centers, and interconnection service
providers. NANOG is governed by the NANOG Board of Directors,
elected by the membership, every two years. NANOG is a membership
organization organized as a 501(c)(3) non-profit.
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