Jon is a domain name industry veteran. He is a founding board member of the industry’s trade association, the Domain Name Association. Previously, he was senior vice president at Network Solutions and chair of the boards of NameJet and Central Registry Solutions. Jon has been deeply involved in ICANN task forces, working groups, and panels. He currently serves on the Registries Stakeholder Group's Executive Committee. He was a member of ICANN's IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG), which steered the move of this function to the global multi-stakeholder community. Jon helped form and served as the first chair of the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) and was elected to three terms as chair of the ICANN Registrar Constituency. Jon has leveraged his expertise in protecting trademarks as a member of the Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT), the Special Trademark Issue team (STI), and the International Trademark Association's Internet Committee. In 2009, Jon was appointed to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Online Safety and Technology Working Group related to issues of child safety and the Internet. Jon received his his undergraduate degree from Binghamton University and his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.