ICANN Board of Directors Biographies Helmut Schink

HELMUT SCHINK

Helmut Schink works for Siemens as Director for Advanced Standards. In this role he closely cooperates with product development and operators. This covers the areas of Internet and broadband
technology.

His expertise includes strategic standardisation, strategic product planning, corporate consulting and business development as well as semiconductor physics and device development. He hold a doctor´s degree in physics. Previous occupations include semicoductor process technology and business development.

He is heavily engaged in the standards-setting arena as a chair of the global ETSI project TIPHON which develops specification for IP Telephony from an end-to-end point of view. He also serves as rapporteur for the Global Information Infrastructure Project in ITU. In the Internet Society (ISOC) he is the officer for standards of the Advisory Council articulating the requirements of the industry.

He was selected for the ICANN Board by the Protocol Supporting Organization.