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, elected at the AGM on 25/3/2008 are:

Denesh Bhabuta

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

James Blessing is Chief Operations Officer for Entanet International, part of the $200M IT distribution and communications services group Entagroup. An innovative and creative IT professional, he has over ten years’ experience of deploying Internet technologies and takes an active role in the Internet industry. He has been a council member of the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) since 2004 and is Chair of the ISPA broadband sub-group.

Prior to joining Entanet in 2005, James commanded the roles of Technical Support Manager and Technical Development Manager at Zen Internet where he was responsible for growing a large support team, product development and financial reporting. Previously he held senior project management and technical directorship roles in the design and build of consumer facing websites for high street brands and outsourced IT support to media companies. This followed an early career in radio in which he was involved in outside broadcasting, technical operation and programme production.

Peter Gradwell

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

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.

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The representative from the UK Tier 1 Registrar (Nominet) is:

Jay Daley

Jay Daley is Director of IT for Nominet UK, and represents the Tier 1 Registry Operator on the UKEC Board.

Jay Daley is well versed in the development of IT strategy and services for enterprises, having over 20 years experience of working in both commercial and public sector environments.

Jay is one of the modern breed of IT directors who contribute to business strategy at board level, whilst maintaining an in-depth understanding of the technologies and business processes they support.

After joining Nominet UK, the national Registry for all .uk domain names, in 2002, Jay transformed Nominet’s public Internet infrastructure, on which all .uk domains rely. Working closely with the operations departments Jay is leading the move to a fully online service and automated business processes. More recently Jay was responsible for the successful bid to be the registry for UK User ENUM.

Jay joined Nominet UK from Brighton and Hove Council, where as Assistant Director, ICT & e-Government, he introduced in 1997/98 one of the first city-wide Internet service provisions for local schools. He later extended this to one of the first city-wide fibre networks serving multiple public sector bodies.

Qualified in ITIL, the modern standard for IT Service Management, Jay is also a certified PRINCE2 Practitioner.