Nominet's board is responsible for making strategic and policy decisions.

The board meets regularly to discuss strategic, policy and operational issues and the reports from the meetings are archived here.

Bob Gilbert - Chairman

Bob is a highly experienced corporate lawyer and has been involved in most aspects of company and commercial law including insolvency. He was one of the few solicitors selected by the DTI to act as a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner. His legal career spanned 35 years and was spent at Wragge & Co where he was deputy senior partner until his retirement in April 2004.

Bob has wide-ranging business and boardroom experience having held many directorships of both private and public companies. He is currently Chairman of Victoria PLC, GSH Group PLC and ADAC Paintbox Group Ltd. His appointment to chair the Government's Motor Sport Development Board (MDUK) was announced by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in June 2004.

Bob has been Chairman since 2005.

Lesley Cowley - Chief Executive

Lesley joined Nominet UK as Operations Director in April 1999 and has extensive management experience in both the public and private sectors together with an MBA, with distinction.

She was appointed Managing Director in 2002 and Chief Executive in 2005. She is responsible for leading the development of Nominet and the senior management team. She is particularly involved in looking after the relationships with Nominet's members and stakeholders, developing company performance and representing Nominet nationally and internationally.

In 2007, she won the CBI First Women award for Technology. In 2006, she was a top five finalist in Britain's Best Boss awards and received a special commendation. She was also a finalist at the 2005 Blackberry Women in Technology awards.

Lesley is also a trustee of Kennet Housing, part of the Guinness Trust, which is a charitable Housing Association.

Jim Davies - Non-Executive Director

Jim Davies is a solicitor. He is a consultant at London and Kent law firm Bell Dening; and also at other firms. He specialises in domain name and internet law. He acts for a wide variety of Nominet members - ranging from large companies through to individuals. Jim has a deep knowledge of the DRS and he has acted in many of the most recent high profile .uk domain disputes.

Jim's educational background includes graduating in both science and law at Selwyn College, Cambridge; followed by a postgraduate computing course at Keele University. He then completed his Law Society Finals at the College of Law, Chester. As well as his work in the legal profession, Jim has also been the managing director of two IT security companies and has extensive experience in a range of business environments.

Jim is married with three young children, which takes up most of his leisure time! He is a bilingual Welsh speaker and he follows the national rugby team whenever he can.

Jim was elected to the Board in May, 2008.

Gordon Dick - Non-Executive Director

Gordon Dick has been an active participant in Nominet UK for many years, initially as a tag holder, then as a member of the Policy Advisory Board and more latterly as a non-executive director.

Gordon graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc (Hons) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. In 1995 he was involved in the start up of an e-commerce and web design company for which he was technical director. In this role he ran a large number of secure e-commerce sites and the surrounding online marketing environments. Having spent two years working overseas, he is now an independent project consultant.

Gordon has been a non-executive director since 2004.
 

Angus Hanton - Non-Executive Director

An economics graduate, Angus is a director of Woodland Investment Management Ltd (woodlands.co.uk), a forestry company, and Dulwich Storage Limited, a self-storage company.  For the last 10 years he has invested in Internet businesses and has been developing generic domain names.  Angus's ancestral roots are in Scotland and Wales but he lives happily in London with his family. 

Angus has been a non-executive director since 2007.

Sebastien Lahtinen - Non-Executive Director

Sebastien served as a member of Nominet's Policy Advisory Body for four years, two of them as Chair. 

An entrepreneur with a strong interest in Internet related projects, Sebastien is director of NetConnex, a hosting company, Chairman and director of LONAP, a not-for-profit Internet Exchange Point and co-founder of thinkbroadband.com, a broadband news and comparison site. 

Sebastien has been a non-executive director since 2007.