Bo ''Göran'' Edward Marby (March 22, 1963) is a Swedish businessman who serves as the CEO and President of the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is an American multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces ...
(ICANN), a non-profit
corporation based in California.
Early life
Marby is from Sweden. He received a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the
University of Gothenburg
The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 st ...
(School of Business, Economics and Law).
Career
Marby has been the Director-General of the
Swedish Post and Telecom Authority The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority ( sv, Post- och telestyrelsen, abbreviated PTS) is a government authority under the Ministry of Infrastructure (Sweden) and is managed by a board of directors appointed by the Swedish government. The Director- ...
(PTS). Earlier he co-founded AppGate Network Security AB, a security software company. He has also worked as CEO of Cygate (a network services company), Country Manager for
Cisco
Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...
in Sweden, and as CEO of Unisource Business Networks in Sweden.
Head of ICANN
He has been CEO and President of ICANN since May 2016.
In September 2016, he testified at a US Senate subcommittee meeting in support of the so-called "IANA transition", whereby oversight of ICANN would pass from the US government to the multi-stakeholder ICANN community.
Personal life
Marby is married and has three children. He lives in Los Angeles.
References
External links
Profile on the ICANN website
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Living people
1963 births
Swedish Internet celebrities
University of Gothenburg alumni
Swedish businesspeople
People from Gothenburg