Curriculum Vitae - Mr. Patrick O'Brien
Patrick O'Brien is Vice President and General Manager for I-DNS.net International Pte Ltd, a Singapore based company specialising in Multi-lingual Enabling technologies and Managed Registry Services. Prior to taking up this position late 1999, he was CEO at Domainz, the company responsible for managing the New Zealand domain name Registry. During his four years at the helm of Domainz, he was responsible for the start-up and profitable growth of this Internet business, providing the .nz space with one of the most respected management track records in the Registry community.
Before joining Domainz, Mr. O'Brien spent 7 years working in a range of senior management positions for New Zealand Telecom, ranging from Regional Director Asia Pacific, Manager of the Broadcasting business, through to G.M. Maritime Radio with responsibility for New Zealand's distress & safety radio service to ships at sea.
His business skills have been supplemented with a solid UK educational foundation, gaining degree level qualifications in IT, and in Marketing, as well as an MBA majoring in finance. His early years were spent immersed in the UK IT industry, covering a broad spectrum from development through to operations, across large and small systems, and a number of sectors. The nine years spent with a professional firm of UK chartered accountants were pivotal in moving his early focus from one of technology issues, to one of business solutions.
Since 1998 Mr. O'Brien has had a close involvement with Internet Governance issues; providing submissions to the US Govt Green and White paper processes, a member of the Boston Working Groups successful submission to US Govt leading to improvement in ICANNs Foundation Articles, presenting a paper as part of the original WIPO consultation process in Sydney 1999, and an active member of the multifarious ccTLD constituencies.