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Currently Director of IP Operations at MTO Telecom. I've been with MTO (formerly Cable VDN) for the last 10 years building the 1st 100% ethernet network that currently services fortune 500 companies and provides local loops for major carriers in Montreal. I've lead the team that built the IP network from the ground up starting with a bunch of unused fiber into a network that spans all over the island of Montreal and into north and south shore. Providing services from Internet Transit, SIP Trunking, dark fiber, EoMPLS,VPLS,Multicast,IPv6 and more. I've recently obtained a CLEC license for MTO to provide VoIP services to our customer base. My current managing position gives me a new perspective into the business we're into and the key issues we need to address to make our business a growing and profitable one.

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With my experience dealing with carriers and my longtime commitment to ToriX (since 2003), I truly believe that the board needs a new face with new ideas and experience in a lot of networking fields. Great things have been accomplished since the 1st connections at 151 Front and it's now time for me to get involved in a different way and I see the board as a way to express my ideas and share with my fellow members the knowledge and experience I have.

ToriX is an essential piece of the canadian telecommunication infrastructure and we have to promote it and work towards keeping it as the single most important platform for all IP providers in the country.

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Martin Hannigan is a 23-year veteran of the Internet industry and an international network engineering, operations and data center professional. He is currently a senior member of the Network Architecture team at Akamai Technologies, Inc., based in Cambridge, MA. He currently serves as an elected member of the ARIN Advisory Council, an appointed member of the ICANN Security, Stability and Resiliency of the DNS Review Team, a Board Member of the France IX and a team member of PeeringDB.

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No agenda other than the good operations and the resulting benefit to the members of the Torix.

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Owen DeLong is an IPv6 Evangelist at Hurricane Electric and a member of the ARIN Advisory Council. Owen brings more than 25 years of industry experience. He is an active member of the systems administration, operations, and IP Policy communities. In the past, Owen has worked at Tellme Networks (Senior Network Engineer), Exodus Communications (Senior Backbone Engineer) where he was part of the team that took Exodus from a pre-IPO start up with 2 data centers to a major global provider of hosting services, Netcom Online (Network Engineer) where he worked on a team that moved the internet from an expensive R&E tool to a widely available public access system accessible to anyone with a computer, Sun Microsystems (Senior Systems Administrator), and more. He can be reached as owend at he dot net.

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Hurricane Electric is an active member of TorIX and has been present on the exchange for sometime.
We have worked with the board to improve the exchange and make it more useful to the members. My candidacy here is intended to further those efforts and expand our role in furthering the development of this exchange.

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Kevin Blumberg is Co-Owner and CTO of The Wire Inc an Independent ISP specializing in the small and medium business market in Toronto, Ontario. Over the past 11 years he has shaped the growth of both the network and server infrastructure including deploying full service DSL, webhosting, mail and colocation solutions. Kevin has been an active Torix member since 2005 and believes strongly in a inclusive membership driven exchange in Toronto.

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I am hoping to bring my business and technical experience to the Board. I would like to see an expansion of member dialogue as well as a long term strategy towards the growth and stability of the exchange.

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I have worked in the ISP and Telecom sphere for a number of years as well being an active member of the TorIX community.

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I was a member of the founding board and have served as a volunteer administrator for a number of years. I'm just looking to do what I can to keep TorIX growing and moving forward

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Jacques Latour is the Director of Information Technology (IT) at the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA). Jacques joined CIRA in March 2010, bringing with him more than 20 years of experience in the IT sector. As the Director of IT, Jacques is responsible for all of CIRA's technical operations and development, including the .CA DNS infrastructure and the .CA registry management system. He also represents CIRA's interests on the BIND 10 Steering Committee.

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I am a forward thinking, hands on and goal-oriented IT professional with more than 20 years of experience. I will bring a fresh approach and innovative solutions to the challenges the Canadian IX are currently facing.

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Veteran status router jockey, circa 1996. Independent contractor since 2003 serving predominantly medium and large size service providers and content providers in various markets within Canada and the U.S.

ELECTION:

As one of the founding partners of TorIX in 1998 (along side Bill Campbell, Jim Mercer and Vince Mammoliti) and after 9 years of volunteering towards maintaining day-to-day operations, I was privileged to be elected onto the Board of Directors along with some other brilliant minds at the first official election by the members since it's non-profit incorporation.

Working along side all of these extraordinary people who have helped build TorIX over the years has taught me a great deal and provided valuable experience. I would be grateful for the opportunity to focus my previous experience here by again serving on the Board of Directors and continue in a direction that will see TorIX return even more benefits for it's members.

The main goals for my current term have included aiding in the creation of a financial model that would provide a stable and cost effective revenue stream for TorIX to scale the infrastructure while maintaining it's renowned stability and reliability. In addition, I hoped to contribute towards the board being able to provide a transparent flow of information to it's members. Finally, I felt strongly about off-loading some of the board's work to committees developed specifically for a certain task or project, allowing the board to focus more on the details of the Corporation. I feel that strong progress has been made in each of these areas and I'm grateful to have been able to work with, from my perspective, the most productive board this organization has seen to date.

In a renewed term, one of my primary focuses would be to help develop a plan that would ultimately see TorIX as a direct tenant of 151 Front Street West such that the core of TorIX would live in space leased directly from the building. Additionally, and especially after being witness to some really late hours by the admin team during the Nexus migration, I'd like to look further into an idea that has recently surfaced on the board's list of discussion items; a compensation system for eligible members of the TorIX admin team.

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