(05/2023)
Ram Mohan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmohan/ is Chief Strategy Officer of Identity Digital, the world's largest TLD registry operator. Ram works closely with the CEO, board members and other executives to achieve Identity Digitals' long-term vision. Ram is responsible for the company's strategic-planning processes, leading the development of strategy, translating it for people across functions and business units, driving organizational change, and aligning the company towards innovation. He also manages the Registry Service Provider business unit, including .ORG and major country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) including .AU (Australia). Ram was earlier the COO at Afilias, which was acquired by Donuts in 2020, where he led the strategic growth of the company in registry services and security as well as new product sectors such as Managed DNS, IoT, and Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs).
Ram is a founding charter member of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC). He served as the SSAC's non-voting liaison to the ICANN Board of Directors from 2008-2018. During his tenure on the ICANN Board, he chaired the Risk Committee, the Universal Acceptance Committee, and the Internationalized Domain Name Committee, served on the Governance, Compensation and Technology Committees; Chaired the Board Strategic Planning Committee, and helped the Board navigate important strategic and governance issues relevant to global non-profit Boards.
Previous positions include Co-Founder TurnTide (an anti-spam company acquired by Symantec 2001); COO Infonautics (a publicly traded Ed-Tech company).
He is an inventor on nineteen U.S. patents in Internet technology, recipient of InfoWorld's 'Premier 100 Technology Leaders' award, a CIO100 honoree and Guinness World Record holder (2018). He completed his BS in Electrical Engineering and MBA in India before working on his MS at Drexel and post-graduate coursework at Harvard and INSEAD.
Disclosure of Interest:
- Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s): Identity Digital, Chief Strategy Officer.
- Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above: Executive role, including managing various aspects of the company.
- Please identify any board or committee positions that you hold that might be perceived as influencing your expressed point of view, irrespective of whether they are voluntary: Board member at CleanDNS, Inc., a cybersecurity company.
- Please list any financial or other material relationship beyond de minimus stock ownership that you or your employer has with any individual, company, or other entity that to your knowledge has a financial or other material relationship with ICANN.: None.
- Please list any business transactions that you, your employer, or an immediate family member/significant other has had with ICANN within the last 5 years: My employer, Identity Digital, and its predecessor, Afilias, are subject to contracts with ICANN for the fulfilment of registry services.
- Is your participation as an SSAC member the subject of any arrangements or agreements between you and any other group, constituency, or person(s)? Please answer "yes" or "no." If the answer is "yes," please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s): No.