He may have taken the fall for glitches in ICANNâs TLD Application System failure in June this year, but Michael Salazar has fallen on his feet, having been appointed chief financial officer for Top Level Domain Holdings, an applicant for several generic Top Level Domains.
The announcement, along with the appointment of Caspar von Veltheim, who has been responsible for TLDHâs continental European applications in respect of .NRW and .BAYERN, as an executive director of TLDH with responsibility for Europe, comes in the lead-up to ICANNâs prioritisation draw for processing applications and initial evaluations for new gTLDs on 17 December.
The announcements are part of TLDHâs registry business, Minds + Machines, plans to expand its operational team. Subject to the satisfactory completion of standard regulatory checks in compliance with the AIM Rules, Salazar will also join the Board of TLDH as an executive director.
âTLDH is a leading applicant for new gTLDs and we are delighted that Michael is joining the executive team,â said Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Minds + Machines. âMichael has a deep understanding of the new gTLD programme from his three years at ICANN and he will make an immediate and valuable contribution as we develop Minds + Machines in 2013.â
As part of the changes David Weill, who has been a director of the Company since it was first admitted to trading on AIM and has been chief financial officer, has stepped down from the Board.
The Company has also published the notice of annual general meeting to be held on 21 December 2012 at which, inter alia, annual shareholder approval will be sought for the Companyâs investing policy and to appoint Mazars as the Companyâs auditors.