ICANN’s Atallah to lead new division

Akram Atallah, chief operating officer at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), is moving sideways to lead a new department – the generic domains division (GDD).

Atallah will become GDD divisional president on July 1, and will be replaced by Susanna Bennett, who is currently chief financial officer at technology companies Jazz Technologies and Jazz Semiconductor.