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Restructuring
of CentralNic Leadership Team Puts 5
Executives in New Roles as COO Exits
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CentralNic
Group PLC (AIM:
CNIC) has announced a restructuring
of their leadership team that
resulted in five executives
moving into new positions. They
will help oversee a workforce of
some 400 employees in one of
the industry's fastest growing
companies.
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Over
45 million domains are currently
using CentralNic platforms that are
customized for every domain customer
type (registry, reseller, corporate,
SMB and domain investor).
CentralNic
CEO Ben Crawford said, ”I
take great pleasure in welcoming our
new hires and appointees into their
new roles, and I am confident we
have the best team in place to
maintain our track record of growth.
In these difficult times, these new
hires and changes reflect our
confidence in the robustness of our
business."
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Two
of those appointees are Robbie
Birkner (top left) and
Tony Kim (top right) who
co-founded the popular
Vancouver, Canada based Hexonet.com
domain registrar that
CentralNic acquired last
year. Birkner, a 20-year
industry veteran, becomes
the Head of Reseller
Division, the largest of
the company's business
divisions in terms of
revenue. He will have
oversight of the strategic
direction, expansion and
operation of all CentralNic
wholesale channels and
platforms for domain names,
which encompasses the
leading reseller brands of RRPproxy
by Key-Systems, Hexonet,
PartnerGate, TPP
Wholesale and more.
Kim's new post is Head of
Product, responsible for
managing new product
development and onboarding
across Group companies. Tony
has over 18 years of
experience in the industry.
Before co-founding Hexonet
he was General Manager at Hostway
Canada and Director of
Product Development for Hostway
Corp USA. |
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Stuart
Fuller (top left) has been
appointed as the Head of
Brand Services Division,
overseeing BrandShelter
and CentralNic’s interest in
Thomsen Trampedach,
which delivers domain
portfolio management and brand
protection services to
Corporate clients. Stuart brings
over 14 years of experience in
the industry and joined
CentralNic three years ago as Group
Commercial Director, after
eleven years at corporate
domain name management and
brand protection firm NetNames
(now CSC).
Gavin
Brown (top right) has been
appointed Head of Registry
Solutions, providing
registry software and managed
services to country code
Top-Level Domain names globally.
CentralNic is also the
world’s leading distributor
of new Top-Level Domains,
with a global market share of
over 47% and those will
be under Brown's purview as
well. Brown, who has 20 years
of industry experience and is
CentralNic's longest-serving
employee, will also retain his
role as Chief Innovation
Officer for the Group.
Before taking that role in
2019, Gavin was CTO of
CentralNic for fourteen years. |
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The
talented quintet of
appointees also includes Oliver
Fries (at left), who has
been appointed Head of
Shared Services, and
will oversee technology and
other shared services for
the Reseller, Retail,
Registry Solutions and Brand
Services business divisions.
Oliver brings over 17 years
of experience in technical
and managerial roles and
will be focusing on key
activities around
infrastructure, systems,
development, support and
domain procurement.
Oliver
previously held the position
of CTO at CentralNic’s
subsidiary Key-Systems
where he played a key role
in shaping its core
technology as well as
helping the company grow and
evolve. He previously worked
in the Telecommunication
sector as a software
developer and project
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While
those five executives are taking on
new roles, another will be leaving.
CEO Crawford said, “I regret to
inform you that Alex Siffrin,
our COO for Centralnic Group,
and Founder/CEO of KeyDrive, has
decided it is time for a new
challenge and therefore is stepping
down from his role with CentralNic.
Alex’s legacy will live on in
CentralNic as we continue to develop
the great businesses he built, which
will now pass into the very capable
hands of the team of hugely talented
people that Alex hired and nurtured
over the past two decades. Alex
remains a valued stakeholder, and
his family remains one of the
largest shareholders of
CentralNic."
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(Posted
April 1, 2020) |
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