Susanna Wong Bennett Email Address

Chief Financial Officer Partner

To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It helps promote competition and develop policy on the Internet s unique identifiers. ICANN doesn t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn t deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet s naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet.

Susanna Bennett was appointed SVP & COO and joined ICANN on July 1, 2013. She brings to ICANN over 20 years of executive leadership experience from extensive operations roles with international public & private companies in the high-tech sector. She has built operational & business excellence on multiple continents for global expansion, emerging growth, mergers & integrations, IPOs, turn-around, management-buy-out and restructuring. She is passionate & an expert professional in operational excellence and international expansion, & has continuously applied broad experience to grow international organizations to new heights. Most recently, she served as the CFO & VP HR & a Director of the Board for Jazz Technologies, a public semiconductor company in Newport Beach, California. She led a merger integration, during which she attained operational excellence & major cost reductions, consistently over-achieved financial targets, developed key-metrics reporting maximizing financial/operational visibility, initiated org development, & enabled international growth. Previously, she served in CFO and executive roles, all with wide operations responsibilities, for: • Tatum, a major CFO services firm – Served as a CFO Partner focusing on China market expansion serving technology clients in Beijing & Shanghai. • eEye, a digital security software company – Joined the new management team focusing on restructuring for growth. • IBM – Retained post-acquisition to integrate operations with IBM • Viacore, a world-leading B2B process integration hub – Created start-up operations infrastructure, enable growth & maximize valuation of the acquisition by IBM. • Printrak International, a global bio-metric id systems sw/hw public entity – With broad financial & operations responsibilities, Susanna was a key member of the leadership team that executed management-buy-out, major restructuring, swift turn-around, global expansion, IPO, multiple acquisitions & integration, and exit strategy.