New NLR CEO: Glenn Ricart

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

On behalf of the NLR Board of Directors, I’m very pleased to announce  
NLR’s new CEO, Dr. Glenn Ricart.  Glenn brings to NLR a distinguished  
background in networking and Internet leadership that spans higher  
education, research, private industry and government service.


Glenn Ricart, CEO-Designate, NLR

With his diversity of experience and talents, Glenn is well positioned  
to take NLR forward from the strong foundation laid over the past six  
years by Tom West and to help ensure NLR continues to effectively  
serve the evolving needs of its members and participants.  Glenn’s  
appointment will be effective as of October 19.

Glenn has related that an initial priority as CEO is to meet with as  
many NLR members and user groups as possible with the objective of  
hearing firsthand the requirements of the NLR community and how  
together we can take full advantage of the many opportunities ahead of  
us.

Among Glenn’s pioneering Internet accomplishments are managing the  
first implementation of the Internet protocols for the IBM PC,  
constructing the first NSFnet backbone for the National Science  
Foundation and its first regional network, and operating the first  
Internet interconnection point (the FIX) on behalf of the U.S. federal  
government.

He also served as Novell’s chief technology officer under three CEOs  
including Eric Schmidt who is now CEO of Google.

Glenn comes to NLR from PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Center for  
Advanced Research (CAR). As Managing Director, he oversaw all research  
activities and related budgets for CAR. And as Technology and  
Development Leader for CAR’s Aura project, he directed the visioning,  
software development and deployment of an electronic performance  
support system for PwC’s global audit practice, the flagship  
initiative of the firm’s Audit Transformation Project which is now  
being rolled-out globally.

His other experience includes:  founder of three technology start-ups;  
program manager at DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects  
Agency; the military’s technology liaison to the Clinton White House;  
chief computing officer (academic CIO) for the University of Maryland  
College Park; and co-founder and managing principal investigator of  
SURAnet, the first internet service provider to provide commercial  
connections.  He currently serves on the board of the Public Interest  
Registry, the registry for Internet names ending in .org.

Glenn received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Case Western Reserve  
University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of  
Maryland College Park.

Kurt Snodgrass

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