The Open-IX Association(OIX), a non-profit industry association formed to promote better standards for data center interconnection and Internet exchanges, has announced that four new members have been elected to serve on the Open-IX Board of Directors. William Charnock, Christian Koch, Chris Malayter and Josh Snowhorn are set to join the OIX Board, each serving two-year terms beginning January 1, 2015 and running through December 31, 2016.
Election results were announced at Open-IX’sAnnual General Meeting held September 5 in New York City.
Through an open nomination and election process, the four were selected from a candidate pool of Association members. They join existing and continuing Board Members Keith Mitchell, director; David Temkin, co-founder and chairman; and Barry Tishgart, secretary. Board Members whose terms will expire are: Donald S. Clark, director; Dan Golding, vice chairman; and Martin Hannigan, co-founder and treasurer.
“On behalf of the entire Open-IX Association, I am pleased to welcome [our new members] to the Open-IX Board of Directors,” said David Temkin, co-founder and chairman of Open-IX Association. “The new board members bring with them diverse skillsets that will help in furthering the Open-IX mission of improving the landscape of Internet peering and massive-scale interconnection.”
In addition to controlling all aspects of the Association’s property, affairs and business, the Open-IX Board of Directors is also responsible for safeguarding the Open Stand compliant standards development that the Internet community has entrusted to it, instituting and conducting the OIX-1 and OIX-2 certification process for Internet exchanges and data centers, and determining whether those entities have met or exceeded the Open-IX minimum standards of performance.
