Rod Beckstrom’s total compensation and benefits nearly $1 million last fiscal year; many other highly paid employees at non-profit.
ICANN has published its Form 990 tax return for the financial year ending June, 2011. Here’s what top employees earned (including non-taxable benefits):
Rod Beckstrom, CEO $998,230
Akram Atallah, COO $133,812
Doug Brent, COO $348,628
John Jeffrey General Counsel & Secretary $338,475
Kurt Pritz, SVP Services $399,747
Kevin Wilson, CFO $254,342
Steve Antonoff, Director Human Resources $226,773
Barbara Clay, VP Communications $248,302
David Conrad, VP Research and IANA Strategy $213,600
Elise Gerich, VP IANA and Technical Operations $173,333
Daniel Halloran, Deputy General Counsel $272,342
James Hedlund, VP Government Affairs $353,204
David Olive, VP Policy Development $286,860
Amy Stathos, Deputy General Counsel $285,996
Tina Dam, Chief GTLD Registry Liaison $277,319
Elizabeth Gasster, Senior Policy Counselor $294,404
Margaret Milam, Senior Policy Counselor $279,554
Roman Pelikh, Sr. Director, Appl & Services $255,381
Michael Salazar, Director of New gTLD Program $305,844
Top contractors include:
Jones Day, its law firm $1,868,820
Iron Mountain, intellectual property services (whois escrow) $634,778
Compass Lexecon, consulting services $632,735
Verilan Event Services, Incl, event services $500,858
Frank Fowlie, ombudsman $451,860
(Hat tip: George Kirikos)
I would suggesting using the word “paid” instead of “earned”!! 🙂
Also worth noting that several of the people listed no longer work for ICANN
@ Michele – yes, this was as of June 2011.
It is at least 2-3 times what similar regulatory entities pay their employees with similar credentials.
@ help – ICANN has always argued it’s competing for talent with other privately held companies. That said, I haven’t seen many privately held companies offering similar benefits in ages.
Check out page 46 in the pdf – $74.5k on first class plane tickets. Supposedly the lowest fares available at the time.