Mr. Pindar WONG
Chairman, VeriFi (HK) Limited

Pindar Wong is the Chairman of VeriFi (Hong Kong) Ltd., a discrete Internet infrastructure consultancy. He serves on the Digital 21 Strategy Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Government, the School of Engineering Advisory Committee HKUST, the Technical Advisory Board of the Packet Clearing House and as the co-public lead of Creative Commons Hong Kong. Previously, he co-founded Hong Kong's first licensed Internet service provider in 1993, was the Chair of the Asia Pacific Internet Association, alternate Chair of Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, Trustee of the Internet Society and was appointed by the Internet Architecture Board to the gTLD-MoU Policy Oversight Committee. He served as the Associate or Vice-Chair of ICANN's Nominating Committee (2003-4), At-Large Study Committee (2001) and Board of Directors (1999). He is a member of DimSumLabs and the W3C Web Payments Community Group. He enjoys innovating by hacking the Raspberry Pi and Internet Governance Policy. He struggles to learn the electric guitar.