ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade Moving to ABRY Partners, a Private Equity Firm

ICANN CEO and President Fadi Chehade
(source: ICANN; License CC BY-SA 2.0)

ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade has announced he will be Senior Advisor on Digital Strategy for ABRY Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, after leaving ICANN:

My Transition from ICANN CEO: "As we move forward on both the IANA transition and my personal transition from ICANN CEO, I would like to let you know that after completing my service at ICANN, I will be engaged in a portfolio of activities. At the center of these, I will be a Senior Advisor on Digital Strategy for ABRY Partners, a Boston-based private equity investment firm. In this role, I will provide guidance to ABRY's partners and their companies' leaders on digital strategy. I expect to add other roles to my portfolio and will update you all as appropriate. Please be assured that until that time, I will remain focused on all the day to day duties within ICANN as we work toward a successful transition."--Fadi Chehade, ICANN CEO and President (read more here)

ABRY Partners
Boston, MA USA
Domain name: abry.com

ABRY Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts that focuses on investments in media. Since 1989, the firm has completed over $18.0 billion of leveraged transactions and other private equity and mezzanine investments, representing investments in more than 450 media properties. Current and previous areas of investment include cable television, publishing, radio and television broadcasting, and other media and communications sectors. Notable past, present, and future investments includeAct III Broadcasting, Cygnus Business Media, Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Muzak Holdings, Legendary Pictures, Consolidated Theatres, F+W Media, Language Line, Citadel Broadcasting, Monitronics and RCN Corporation. Senior Investment Professionals at ABRY include: Andrew Banks, Royce Yudkoff, Peggy Koenig, Jay Grossman, Erik Brooks, Peni Garber, and John Hunt. (Wikipedia)

More info:

• ABRY Partners, LLC: Private Company Information - Businessweek
• Abry Partners News - Private Equity Beat - WSJ
• ABRY Partners | CrunchBase

See also on Domain Mondo:

• ICANN President and CEO Fadi Chehadé to Leave ICANN March 2016
• What Caused ICANN President and CEO Fadi Chehadé To Quit?

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Financial Times, Print Redesign, HTML5, Digital Strategy

I wrote a few days ago in Are Domain Names Dinosaurs that although the mobile web appears to be disappearing into a world dominated by native apps, all is not hopeless. A company that has successfully utilized a HTML5 mobile app in lieu of native apps, is the Financial Times (ft.com), which is launching a redesigned print product Monday:

Financial Times to debut big redesign Monday | Capital New York: "The Financial Times will hit newsstands Monday with its first major redesign in seven years. And between the lines (set in a new typeface, called Financier, developed by rockstar New Zealand type designer Kris Sowersby) it’s possible to read an idea that’s been inching forward among quality broadsheet newspapers in recent years: the primacy of digital for delivering hard news. Broadly characterizing the redesign of the paper as a “simplification” in a memo to staff obtained by Capital, editor Lionel Barber nearly makes the point: “It shows the market that the FT is confident in its print product and prepared to invest in it while pacing ahead with digital development at the same time. The newspaper's simplification enables us to shift our focus more into digital platforms and strike the right balance in our digital first newsroom.”..."

And indeed, the Financial Times has been leading the way with its Web App based on HTML5--no need to pay Apple or Google:

Financial Times: 'There is no drawback to working in HTML5' | Media | theguardian.com: "When the FT first switched from native to HTML5 on iOS in 2011, it was seen in some quarters as a snub to Apple. Although that was partly true – the FT and Apple disagreed over control of subscriber data – a more important reason was the desire to make porting and maintaining the app across multiple platforms and devices easier in the longer term. Two years on, Grimshaw says the strategy is proving a success. "I challenge anyone to tell the difference between our HTML5 app and a native app. There is no drawback to working in HTML5, and there are lots of advantages," he says."

see also: Building The New Financial Times Web App (A Case Study) | Smashing Magazine

domain name: ft.com

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