SALLY COSTERTON

Sally leads ICANN's Stakeholder Engagement globally and is Senior Advisor to the ICANN's President and CEO. She has spent the past two years improving ICANN's international presence and deepening engagement with stakeholders who are now served by an experienced, multi-lingual team based all over the world and supported from three hub offices in Istanbul, Singapore and Los Angeles. Most recently, she served as CEO and Chairman of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region for Hill and Knowlton, one of the world's largest PR firms. She is one of Europe's most experienced communications consultants and has worked with large international companies for the past twenty years helping them to improve their relationships with their stakeholders. She moved into the technology sector in the mid-nineties as it emerged into the business mainstream helping companies such as Intel, HP, Vodafone, RIM and the GSM Association bring innovation to a wider audience. She took over as CEO at H&K in 2006 first in the UK and then EMEA. This gave her first-hand experience of how to build teams that span borders and cultures as well as how to build successful businesses in countries as diverse as Russia, Spain and the UAE.