Board of Directors
Sharing their diverse perspectives from across multiple industries, PIR’s Board of Directors shapes a holistic and global strategic vision for the organization. The Board draws on its wealth of non-profit and corporate sector knowledge to provide best practices for planning, governance, and oversight.
Saerin Cho, Chair (N. America)
Term: 2021 – 2026
Compensation Committee
PIR Advisory Council Liaison
Saerin Cho is an attorney with comprehensive experience in advising, researching, and representing mission-driven organizations and civil society worldwide. Saerin is currently the Chief Legal Officer at Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Previously, Saerin was the General Counsel of Digital Green Foundation, a global development organization that provides technology solutions for farmers to build prosperous communities.
Prior to Digital Green, Saerin was the Chief Eligibility Counsel and Deputy General Counsel at TechSoup, a global social enterprise that connects technology resources with nonprofit organizations in 236 jurisdictions. Saerin is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. Ms. Cho was re-appointed to serve a three-year term as of July 1, 2023.
Keith Davidson, Vice Chair and Treasurer (Asia Pacific)
Term: 2019 – 2025
Finance and Investment Committee, Chair
Audit and Risk Committee
Keith Davidson has held a number of senior management and board positions in the not-for-profit and commercial sectors. Keith’s expertise crosses a variety of disciplines including newspaper, radio and, more recently, the Internet. He has held various roles including Executive Director and member of the Governing Council of InternetNZ, which manages the .nz top level domain.
Keith has been active in ICANN since its inception and was vice chair of the country code Names Supporting Organisation for 6 years. He also chaired and co-chaired a number of ICANN working groups.
In ISOC, Keith served as a trustee from 2012 to 2015, and chaired their Nominations Committee. Keith currently runs a small consultancy that provides advice to ccTLDs, and is enjoying a less hectic lifestyle in semi-retirement in New Zealand. He asserts that responsible organisations like PIR have a duty of strong leadership and best practice governance as an exemplar model TLD. Mr. Davidson was re-appointed to serve a three-year term as of July 1, 2022.
Eric Burger, Member (N. America)
Term: 2021 – 2024
Audit and Risk Committee, Chair
Finance and Investment Committee
Eric Burger is Research Director of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative and Reserch Professor at Virginia Tech. His research and teaching covers cybersecurity, distributed computing, DLT, systems economics and risk, policy, and network governance. He returns to the PIR Board after serving on detail as Assistant Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and prior to that as the Chief Technology Officer of the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to Virginia Tech, he was a Professor at Georgetown University. Before academia, he was CTO of several network equipment and enterprise software companies. He currently serves on a number of advisory boards. He is also a member of the Industry Advisory Council of Medgar Evers College CUNY, designated a predominantly black institution / minority-serving institution (PBI/MSI) and Illinois Institute of Technology’s College of Computing Advisory Board.
Dr. Burger has published over 20 IETF, 3GPP, and W3C standards and holds over 20 issued U.S. patents. He is a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors. He has a SBEE, MBA, and CS PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Michael Silber, Member (Africa)
Term: 2022 – 2025
Audit and Risk Committee
Compensation Committee
Finance and Investment Committee
Michael Silber is an attorney who is currently Group Chief Regulatory Officer for Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a leading communications service provider in Africa. He previously served on the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Lena Beck Rørvig, Member (Europe)
Term: 2022 – 2025
Audit and Risk Committee
Compensation Committee, Chair
Lena Beck Rørvig is an entrepreneur and executive coach unlocking global leaders’ potential. Ms Rørvig lives and works internationally and has a diverse background as a stockbroker, Global HR executive, entrepreneur, and angel investor. Lena’s board experience includes a range of non-profit and for-profit boards. She holds an M.Sc. (economics) for Copenhagen Business School and executive education from INSEAD and Henley Business School.
Kathryn Kleiman, Member (N. America)
Term: 2023 – 2026
Finance and Investment Committee
PIR Advisory Council Liaison
Kathryn Kleiman is a professor at the American University Washington College of Law. She previously worked at law firms where she specialized in Internet law and policy and has won various awards for her work with women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).
Jonathon Nevett, Member (N. America)
Jon Nevett is a veteran of the domain name industry. He co-founded Donuts Inc. in 2010 and helped to raise in excess of $150M to form a registry of over 240 Internet domain extensions. He served as Donuts’ EVP for Corporate Affairs and on its Board of Directors. Previously, Jon served as Senior Vice President at Network Solutions, where he was responsible for policy, government affairs, registry relations, and the corporate ethics office. He also served as Chair of the Board of NameJet and Central Registry Solutions, two NetSol joint ventures with other industry companies. Additionally, Jon’s extensive volunteer work includes serving with ICANN in various capacities for more than 16 years and serving on the Board of Directors for both the Domain Name Association and the Green Acres School.
Prior to joining the industry, he was a director at MCI, an associate at the law firm of Kirkland and Ellis, a judicial clerk in the U.S. District Court of Pennsylvania, a congressional campaign coordinator, and a legislative assistant in the New York State Assembly. Jon has his BA from Binghamton University and JD from Harvard Law School.
Jon serves as a non-voting member of the PIR Board.
Andrew Sullivan, ISOC CEO Liaison (N. America)
Andrew Sullivan joined the Internet Society as President and Chief Executive Officer in September 2018.
He has worked on Internet infrastructure and standards since 2001. In 2012 he joined Dyn (later, Oracle Dyn) to establish Dyn Labs and then to manage the DNS development and architecture departments. His activities in this area led to him being appointed to the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) in 2013. His IAB colleagues elected him Chair in 2015 and 2016.
Past Public Interest Registry Board Directors
- Gerry Barañano (2002-2003)
- Larry Landweber (2002-2003)
- Alan Levin (2002-2003)
- Andy Linton (2002-2003)
- Marc Rotenberg (2002-2006)
- Frode Greisen (2002-2004)
- David Maher (2002-2004)
- Lynn St.Amour (2002-2013) ISOC Liaison
- Geoff Houston (2003-2005)
- Kenny Huang (2003-2004)
- Amadeu Abril i Abril (2003-2005)
- Susan Estrada (2004-2007)
- Barbara Fraser (2004, 2005-2007, 2008-2011)
- Eva Frolich (2004-2007)
- Glenn Ricart (2004-2006, 2007-2010, 2010-2011)
- Pindar Wong (2006)
- Kuo-Wei Wu (2008-2009)
- Raimundo Beca (2011-2014)
- Erik Huizer (2007-2015)
- Maarten Botterman (2008-2016)
- Alexa Raad (2009-2010) non-voting
- Amitabh Singhal (2010-2016, 2019-2021)
- Art Reilly (2011-2017)
- Eric Burger (2015-2017)
- Ingrid Srinath (2013-2018)
- Hartmut Glaser (2014-2018)
- Kathryn Brown (2013-2018) ISOC Liaison
- Roberto Gaetano (2013-2019)
- Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken (2016-2019)
- Suzanne Woolf (2018-2019)
- Jay Daley (2018-2020)
- Greg Kapfer (2019-2022)
- Lise Fuhr (2016-2022)
- Narelle Clark (2018-2023)
- Jeffrey Bedser (2017-2023)