CZ.NIC has a new Board of Directors
Tomáš Košňar from the CESNET association is new member of the CZ.NIC Board of Directors.
Prague, 1 December – The Collegium of the CZ.NIC Association, the highest controlling body of the administrator of the Czech national domain, appointed a new Board of Directors yesterday. In addition to previous members Karel Taft and Jiří Kysela, the Board will include Martin Kukačka and Marek Antoš, whose terms had ended and who were re-elected. Tomáš Košňar from the CESNET association is new member of the CZ.NIC Board of Directors. He takes the place on the Board of outgoing Chairman of the Board Tomáš Maršálek, who decided not to run for a seat on the Board again. The name of the new chairman will be announced before the end of this year.
“On behalf of CZ.NIC, I would like to thank Tomáš Maršálek for his outstanding contributions to the CZ.NIC Association, where he worked for 11 years as a member of the Board of Directors, six years of which h served as its chairman, and wish him success in his future endeavours. Tomáš Maršálek will remain connected to CZ.NIC, however, as he retains his position as member of the Collegium,” noted Ondřej Filip, Executive Director of the CZ.NIC Association.
New member of the Board of Directors Tomáš Košňar (CESNET association)
Tomáš Košňar was born in 1965. In 1988, he earned a degree in telecommunications from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University (ČVUT FEL). He worked at TESLA-VÚT and in the Centre for Scientific and Technical Information at ČVUT FEL. He has been working for CESNET since 2000, but had begun cooperating with the association four years earlier. He specialises in the design, development, and operation of systems for monitoring infrastructure and the IP operation of large-scale networks. As a solution provider, he participated in national and international research and development projects, such as the High-speed Network of National Research and Its New Applications, QUANTUM, and The Issue of Cybernetic Threats and Security Concerns in the Czech Republic.