Biographies

The speakers at MENOG 3 represent a range of industry experts who have extensive knowledge about issues relevant to the MENOG area.

The biographies below are intended to provide attendees with some background information about each of the speakers and their areas of expertise.

Nora Yousef Al-Abdullah
Q-CERT, ictQATAR
Specialist

Osama I. Al-Dosary
Cisco System
Systems Engineer

Sultan AlShamsi
UAEnic
Administrator

Fahad AlShirawi
2Connect Bahrain
Managing Director
MENOG Chair

Randy Bush
Internet Initiative Japan
Senior Researcher
co-founder of AfNOG

David Conrad
IANA
Vice President of Research and IANA Strategy

Pete Crocker
Packet Design
Senior Technical Consultant

Gert Doering
SpaceNet
Chairman of the Address Policy Working Group at RIPE

Mark Dranse
RIPE NCC
Information Services Manager

Baher Esmat
ICANN
Regional Relations Middle East

Nishal Goburdhan
Internet Solutions, South Africa
Network Engineer

Alan Horne
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority Bahrain
General Director
President of the Arab Regulators Network

Oleg Muravskiy
RIPE NCC
Senior Software Engineer

Andrew Oon
Equinix
Director of Sales, Singapore

Axel Pawlik
RIPE NCC
Managing Director

Daniel Phelps
Q-CERT
Information Scientist

Yves Poppe
Tata Communications
Corporation representent at the IPv6 Forum

Paul Rendek
RIPE NCC
Head of External Relations and Communications

Philip Smith
Cisco
Member of Internet Infrastructure Group in Corporate Consulting Engineering

Ingrid Wijte
RIPE NCC
IP Resource Analyst

Filiz Yilmaz
RIPE NCC
Policy Development Officer

Richard Yule
LINX
Technical Sales Engineer
Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology

Earl Zmijewski
Renesys
VP and General Manager, Internet Data Services