Board of Directors
UKIF Ltd (Company No. 05296550, registered in England), is a non-profit Company Limited by Guarantee which is the legal entity for UKNOF.
Current directors
Denesh Bhabuta (Executive Director)
Dr Willie Black (Chairman)
Steve Dyer
Keith Mitchell (Managing Director)
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Keith Mitchell from 2008 until 2012 served as Vice President of Systems Engineering at the Internet Systems Consortium, where he had responsibility for ISC's infrastructure and open-source software development. This included operation of ISC's F-root, DNS and public benefit hosting network infrastructure. Prior to this at ISC he managed the OARC programme for DNS operators, since 2012 serving as President of the now-autonomous nonprofit OARC Inc. Keith conceived the UK Network Operators' Forum UKNOF in 2005, and has been leading this for its past twenty-six successful meetings. He has previously been involved in Internet engineering and governance for some 25 years, founding the London Internet Exchange (LINX) in 1994 where he was Executive Chairman until starting up XchangePoint in 2000. He has served as a non-executive Director of Nominet UK, Chairman of the RIPE NCC Executive Board and co-founded the UK's first Internet startup, PIPEX, in 1992. |
Mike Hughes
Mike is a freelance consultant with over 15 years of industry experience, specialising in areas of multi-stakeholder relations, peering & interconnect, and technical evangelism.
Having a degree which has nothing to do with computing, Mike's technical skills were forged in the fires of dial-up ISP tech support and network ops in the mid- to late-1990s, having to do mighty hacks to make things work, and the power of asking someone to "Reboot and if it still doesn't work, phone back". Mike is also Chair of the Board of Trustees at University of Greenwich Students' Union. |
Nat Morris
Nat currently works for Cumulus Networks, he lives in Pembrokeshire, Wales. |