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Joichi Ito
Director since December 2008
Mr. Ito, 47, is the director of the MIT Media Lab. He is also the Chairman of Creative Commons, where he has
served on the board since April 2008 and is a co-founder of Digital Garage, where he has served on the board since
September 2006. Since June 2012, Mr. Ito has been a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Times Corporation.
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From June 2002 until July 2008, Mr. Ito served on the board of Pia Corporation, a ticket and entertainment
magazine company in Japan (Tokyo Stock Exchange 4337). Since May 2009 Mr. Ito has served on the board of CCC, a
video rental franchise company in Japan (Tokyo Stock Exchange 4756). He served on the board of ICANN, a U.S. non-profit
corporation, from December 2004 until December 2007. ICANN manages the domain name registration system that Tucows
uses for its domain name business and ICANN receives fees from Tucows for domain name registrations.
Mr. Ito is also on the board of directors of a number of non-profit organizations, including The Knight Foundation,
the MacArthur Foundation and The Mozilla Foundation. He has created numerous Internet companies, including PSINet
Japan, Digital Garage (Tokyo Stock Exchange 4819) and Infoseek Japan and was an early stage investor in Twitter, Six
Apart, Flickr, SocialText, Dopplr, Last.fm, Rupture and Kongregate. He has served and continues to serve on various
Japanese central as well as local government committees and boards, advising the government on IT, privacy and computer
security related issues.
Mr. Ito has extensive experience as a director of a number of publicly traded companies and has a wide range of
experience with internet companies generally. This experience, along with Mr. Ito’s domain specific knowledge, enables him
to bring key experience to the Company and qualifies him to be a director of Tucows.
Lloyd Morrisett
Director since February 1994
Dr. Morrisett, 84, served as a director and as a member of the audit and compensation committees of Infonautics,
Inc., our predecessor, beginning in February 1994. Dr. Morrisett also served as chairman of the Board of Directors of
Infonautics beginning in March 1998 until we merged with Tucows Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Tucows Delaware”), in
August 2001 and became Tucows Inc. He is the co-founder of the Children’s Television Workshop—now Sesame
Workshop—and served from 1969 to 1998 as president of The Markle Foundation, a charitable organization.
The breadth of Dr. Morrisett’s career has provided him with extensive business acumen and leadership experience.
In addition, as a member of the board of directors of our predecessor, Dr. Morrisett is uniquely positioned to provide our
Board and the Company with an important historical perspective with respect to the Company’s operations and strategy.
These factors, combined with Dr. Morrisett’s experience as a public company board, audit committee and compensation
committee member qualify him to be a director of Tucows.
Elliot Noss
Director since August 2001
Mr. Noss, 51, is our President and Chief Executive Officer and has served in such capacity since the completion of
our merger with Tucows Delaware in August 2001. From May 1999 until completion of the merger in August 2001, Mr.
Noss served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Tucows Delaware. Before that, from April 1997 to May 1999, Mr.
Noss served as Vice President of Corporate Services of Tucows Interactive Ltd., which was acquired by Tucows Delaware in
May 1999.
Mr. Noss’s lengthy service as our Chief Executive Officer has provided him with extensive knowledge of, and
experience with, Tucows’ operations, strategy and financial position. In addition, Mr. Noss has widespread knowledge of the
internet and software industry generally that, coupled with his operational expertise, qualifies him to be a director of Tucows.
Jeffrey Schwartz
Director since June 2005
Mr. Schwartz, 51, has served as a director of Dorel Industries since 1987 and as Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer since 2003. Mr. Schwartz is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal and has a degree in the field of
business administration.
Mr. Schwartz has a significant amount of public-company financial expertise, particularly in his executive
experience as the chief financial officer of Dorel Industries, Inc. This executive experience, along with Mr. Schwartz’s
service as one of our Audit Committee members (and as Chairman of our Audit Committee since 2005), qualifies him to be a
director of Tucows.