The 2025 Slate of Candidates for ARIN Elections

Posted: Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Candidates for ARIN Elections

ARIN Elections will be held online from 3:00 PM ET Thursday, 30 October, through 7:00 PM ET Friday, 7 November. These elections will fill three seats on the Board of Trustees, five seats on the Advisory Council (AC), and one seat on the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC) for terms beginning 1 January 2026.

ARIN Board of Trustees Candidates:

  • Christopher Holbert (Qualifications Not Confirmed)
  • Lee Howard (Well Qualified)
  • Hank Kilmer (Well Qualified)
  • James Lorimer (Well Qualified)
  • Robert Seastrom (Well Qualified)
  • Mark Thorpe (Qualifications Not Confirmed)

Note: Richard Gayle has withdrawn as a candidate for the Board of Trustees.

ARIN Advisory Council Candidates:

  • Ethan Angele (Qualified)
  • E. Marie Brierley (Qualified)
  • Matthew Cowen (Qualified)
  • Gerry George (Qualified)
  • Altie Jackson (Qualified)
  • Brian Jones (Qualified)
  • Kendrick Knowles (Qualified)
  • Mohibul Mahmud (Qualified)
  • Caleb Ogundele (Qualified)
  • Gus Reese (Qualified)
  • Preston Louis Ursini (Qualified)
  • Alison Wood (Qualified)

NRO NC Candidates:

  • Ahmad Enaya (Qualified)
  • Chris Grundemann (Qualified)
  • Alyssa Quinn (Qualified)

Note: Nick Nugent has withdrawn as a candidate for the NRO NC.

Get to Know the Candidates

Candidate biographies and questionnaire responses are available at:
https://www.arin.net/participate/oversight/elections/candidate_bios.pdf

You are encouraged to submit and view Statements of Support for the candidates at: https://www.arin-elections.net/.

All candidates have been subscribed to the General Members Mailing List to answer questions from the voting community. If your organization is a General Member at ARIN and plans to vote this year, we encourage you to join the mailing list to stay up to date on ARIN Elections activity.

ARIN will host a virtual candidate forum for the Board of Trustees candidates on Thursday, 16 October, at 2:00 PM ET. Registration for this event will open on 18 September.

All candidates have been offered the opportunity to present themselves to the community in a brief, prerecorded speech during ARIN 56, and those speeches will be made available on ARIN’s YouTube channel during the voting period.

We hope you will join us in offering congratulations to this year’s candidates. ARIN acknowledges and appreciates the commitment they are willing to make toward ensuring the vitality and growth of ARIN, the community, and the Internet. ARIN also extends thanks and appreciation to the members of the Nomination Committee for their hard work in recruiting nominees.

For questions related to the election process, please email [email protected].

Regards,

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

Candidates listed above were classified by an independent, third-party vendor based on the Nominee Classification Process in the Election Processes. Every nominee is put forward on the slate unless the third-party vendor classifies a nominee as “Unable to Qualify.” No nominees were assessed as unable to qualify this year.