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 was appointed to the role of Chairman in May 2005.

Until he retired from private practice last year, Bob Gilbert was a company law specialist and Deputy Senior Partner of Wragge & Co, the Midlands based law firm. He remains a consultant to the company as well as holding a number of other non-executive Chairmanships of publicly quoted companies.

He has had a long and distinguished career at Wragge & Co, joining the company in 1972 and becoming its youngest ever partner at the age of 25. During his 33 years with the company he has been actively involved in most aspects of company and commercial law as well as new business development and acting as Liaison Partner with many City institutions.

Lesley joined Nominet UK as Operations Director in April 1999. She has extensive management experience in both the public and private sectors, having worked in a range of management roles for more than 20 years. She is a member of the Institute of Directors, the Chartered Management Institute and the Institute of Credit Management.

Lesley was appointed Managing Director in March 2002. As a Nominet board member, she makes a major contribution to strategic planning and decision making. She is responsible for the running of the company and oversees the management team.

She is particularly involved in relations with Nominet's members, managing company performance and introducing improvements to the systems and processes.  Lesley's job title was changed from Managing Director to Chief Executive on 1 January 2005.

Alex Bligh - Non-Executive Director

Alex is an active private investor, and an independent consultant advising technology companies and investors through his company Silverscale Associates Ltd.  Alex founded an early UK Internet Service Provider, Xara Networks, which he left following its sixth serial acquisition.

He has wide experience of directorships of UK not-for-profit Internet bodies, including his prior directorship of LINX.  He co-founded Redbus Interhouse PLC, a quoted Internet collocation company where he was a non-executive director until 2002.  He was also a founder director of XchangePoint, an Internet interconnect company.  Alex also holds several non-executive director roles.

Alex has served on Nominet's board as a non-executive director since its creation - a process in which he was very closely involved.  He is a member of the Policy Advisory Board and has served on, and chaired several subcommitees.

Gordon Dick - Non-Executive Director

Gordon Dick 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 envrionments.  In 2002 he moved to Tokyo to work for a JASDAQ listed business before returning in 2004 to consultancy work in the UK.

He has been an active participant in Nominet UK for many years and was previously elected to and served on the Policy Advisory Board.  During his time in Japan he retained an active interest in Nominet which resulted in his election to Nominet's Board in 2004.

Fay Howard - Non-Executive Director

By professional training Fay is a Legal Liabilities Insurance Underwriter though she has worked in the not-for-profit sector of the Internet since 1995.

Working at RIPE NCC she managed the project to establish CENTR, the Council of European National Top-Level domain Registries and was subsequently appointed General Manager.  She represented the country code top level domain (CCTLD) community in the process to form ICANN and represented Europe in the Names Council of ICANN's Domain Name Support Organisation.

Subsequently Fay worked for Nominet to carry out a feasibility study into establishing an industry code of practice for Internet services in the UK.  Fay is currently the Project Manager with EURid, the organisation selected by the European Commission to operate the new.eu top level domain.

Jonathan Robinson - Non-Executive Director

Jonathan Robinson is a co-founder of NBT (formerly NetBenefit) plc and is currently their Chief Operating Officer.  Group NBT is a London listed domain name, email and web-hosting services provider that includes NetNames, NetBenefit and Easily.co.uk.  Jonathan was previously deputy chairman of the Internet Council of Registrars (CORE) and is a current director of the .info registry Afilias.

Jonathan graduated with a PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Cape Town in 1992, having been previously awarded a BSc (Physics).  He held a Research Associate position in the Department of Materials at Imperial College, London from 1993-1994.  Between 1994 and 1997 he was Rolls-Royce Research Fellow at the Rolls-Royce Technology Centre at the University of Cambridge, a position he vacated in order to take up his full-time role with NetBenefit.