David Conrad - Senior Advisor

David Conrad is a long-time and active participant in Internet infrastructure, development, and operations. 

In 1983 while at the University of Maryland, he led the team that developed one of the first commercial TCP/IP packages for IBM PCs. He then went on to assist in the development of the Internet in the Asia and Pacific Rim regions by supporting the University of Hawaii/NASA/NSF "Pacific Communications (PACCOM)" project which provided the first links that inter-connected the networks of universities and research institutions in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, and the US.
David was then invited to Japan to become employee #7 at Internet Initiative Japan, one of the first commercial Internet Service Providers in Japan.
While in Japan, David helped to found and became the first Director General of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the IP address allocator for Asia and the Pacific Rim. 

Returning to the US in 1998, David became the Executive Director of the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) and oversaw the development of one of the most widely used DNS servers, BIND version 9. With experience gained at ISC, David founded and was the CTO and VP of Engineering at Nominum, a commercial name and address management company. In 2005, David joined ICANN first as General Manager of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) which manages the unique identifiers used by all Internet technologies, then as VP of IT and Research for ICANN. 

After successfully overseeing the signing of the root of the DNS, David resigned from ICANN and now provides Internet technologies and policy-related consulting.

David Conrad is a Senior Consultant for GCSEC in some research projects.