Nominet, the national registry for .uk domain names, has appointed Simon McCalla as Director of IT.
Simon joins Nominet with over 15 years’ experience in information technology within global enterprises including The White Company, Warner Bros Studio Entertainment Group and Cap Gemini. In 2006, McCalla was appointed as director of application services at Warner Bros, where he was responsible for the development and management of their global Category Management and Vendor Managed Inventory systems.
On his Nominet role, Simon McCalla comments: "Nominet’s investment in the DNS infrastructure, innovative technology such as ENUM[1], and its employees, is outstanding. It is exciting to become part of an organisation that has such a respectable reputation within the technology sector and contributes so much to the wider Internet community."
Lesley Cowley, CEO of Nominet concludes: "We are pleased to welcome Simon into the team at Nominet. He has a wealth of experience in the IT sector and we are looking forward to working with him to ensure our technical service continues to be of the highest standard. This appointment further strengthens our commitment to shaping the development of the Internet through Internet community projects such as OpenDNSSEC[2] and Windows Unbound[3]."