Bo ''Göran'' Edward Marby (March 22, 1963) is a Swedish businessman who served as the CEO and President of the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is a global multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several dat ...
(ICANN) from May 2016 to December 2022,
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 () is a List of universities in Sweden, university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current List of universities in Sweden#Public universities, S ...
(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 (, abbreviated PTS) is a Government agencies in Sweden, government authority under the Ministry of Infrastructure (Sweden) and is managed by a board of directors appointed by the Swedish government. The Dire ...
(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. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, s ...
in Sweden, and as CEO of Unisource Business Networks in Sweden.
Head of ICANN
He was CEO and President of ICANN between May 2016
and Dec 21, 2022 when he resigned.
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
Businesspeople from Gothenburg