Board
The UK Enum Consortium is a not for profit company. The board consists of a number (currently 4) of members elected annually by the membership and a representative from the UK Tier 1 Registrar (Nominet).
The current board are:
Denesh Bhabuta (elected 2008)
Denesh is involved in various IT and non-IT related companies, and provide consultancy to various types of businesses. His Internet experience began in 1989 on a personal level, moving on to working within the Internet Industry from 1994.
Some of the companies he has worked for in the past include Lancaster University (post funded by UKERNA), Demon Internet (London), Thus plc (London), Level3 (London), Firstmark Communications (based in Hanover, Paris, Madrid and Luxembourg), Lambdanet (Hanover), FLAG Telecommunications (London) and Tunisia Telecom (Tunis).
Denesh was a member elected Director of LONAP Limited from April 2004 until May 2006, where he held the posts of Finance Director, Events Manager and “Walking, Talking Billboard for LONAP” all at the same time. LONAP is an extremely successful and stable not-for profit Neutral Internet Exchange based in London.
In addition, between April 1999 and April 2006 he held the member elected post of Policy Advisory Board Member at Nominet. Nominet are the .uk domain registry.
He has also held the member-elected post of co-Chair of RIPEs Local Internet Registry Working Group (which discussed and implemented policies on IP Addressing within Europe)
James Blessing Finance Director (elected 2008)
James Blessing is an independent consultant providing advice to ISPs, OLO’s and other communications companies. He is currently the Managing Director of his own start up company Garou, and holds positions on a number of boards. He has over ten years of experience in internet technologies. Previously, he was the Chief Operations Officer at Entanet, a managed services provider, technical support manager and technical development manager at Zen Internet; senior project manager at Eunite; senior producer at Kiss102 and Kiss105; and a technical director at Net Nannies.
Peter Gradwell Chairman (elected 2009)
Peter Gradwell is one of the UK’s leading young internet and telecoms entrepreneurs and was recognised in the Daily Telegraph (February 2007) as one of the changing faces of IT.
Peter Gradwell has sponsored the creation of www.voip.org.uk. It is a community-led VoIP forum aiming to become the UK’s main reference point for internet telephony.
He is a founding member of the Internet Telephony Service Providers Association (ITSPA), the UK trade body that, among other activities, lobbies OFCOM.
He is the Managing Director of Gradwell dot com Limited, one of the UK’s leading VoIP Providers for UK SMEs.
Steve Kennedy (elected 2009)
Steve has over 20 years’ experience in the Telecoms/Internet/Mobile industries. He was involved with internet in the UK before it had a commercial presence, internet streaming from its beginning (he was the first UK Real Networks customer), and set-up the first Internet Dance Radio Station (Gaialive.com). Steve was also involved with the first netcast of BigBrother (UK).
He is an acknowledged “independent Industry expert” and uses those abilities in consulting and working with a number of investment partners on various projects. Steve also is a freelance journalist writing on technology subjects.
The representative from the UK Tier 1 Registrar (Nominet) is:
Phil Kingsland
Phil Kingsland is Director of Marketing and Communications at Nominet, the .uk registry and tier one registry for UK ENUM. Phil joined Nominet in 2006 with 15 years’ experience in marketing and sales for high technology companies. He is responsible for developing and implementing Nominet’s marketing and communications strategy, raising the profile of .uk and defining its position in the global Internet industry.
Prior to joining Nominet, Phil spent 7 years with management and technology consultancy, Axon Group plc, where he was Head of Marketing, working with a range of blue chip clients including Xerox, Kraft, BP and Transport for London. Prior to this role, he spent time leading the sales and marketing of London-based 3D Scanners Ltd and started his career with Renishaw plc.
