Nominet's board is responsible for making strategic and policy decisions.

The board meets regularly to discuss strategic, policy and operational issues and the communique from the meetings are archived here.

Bob Gilbert - Chairman

Bob is a highly experienced corporate lawyer and has been involved in most aspects of company and commercial law including insolvency. He was one of the few solicitors selected by the DTI to act as a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner. His legal career spanned 35 years and was spent at Wragge & Co where he was deputy senior partner until his retirement in April 2004.

Bob has wide-ranging business and boardroom experience having held many directorships of both private and public companies. He is currently Chairman of Paintbox Limited and the Government's Motor Sport Development Board (MDUK).

Bob has been Chairman since 2005.

Lesley Cowley - Chief Executive

Lesley joined Nominet UK as Operations Director in April 1999 and has extensive management experience in both the public and private sectors together with an MBA, with distinction.

She was appointed Managing Director in 2002 and Chief Executive in 2005. She is responsible for leading the development of Nominet and the senior management team. She is particularly involved in looking after the relationships with Nominet's members and stakeholders, developing company performance and representing Nominet nationally and internationally.

In 2007, she won the CBI First Women award for Technology. In 2006, she was a top five finalist in Britain's Best Boss awards and received a special commendation. She was also a finalist at the 2005 Blackberry Women in Technology awards.

Lesley is also a trustee of Kennet Housing, part of the Guinness Trust, which is a charitable Housing Association.

Gordon Dick - Non-Executive Director

Gordon Dick has been an active participant in Nominet UK for many years, initially as a tag holder, then as a member of the Policy Advisory Board and more latterly as a non-executive director.

Gordon graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc (Hons) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. In 1995 he was involved in the start up of an e-commerce and web design company for which he was technical director. In this role he ran a large number of secure e-commerce sites and the surrounding online marketing environments. Having spent two years working overseas, he is now an independent project consultant.

Gordon has been a non-executive director since 2004.

Sebastien Lahtinen - Non-Executive Director

Sebastien served as a member of Nominet's Policy Advisory Body for four years, two of them as Chair. 

An entrepreneur with a strong interest in Internet related projects, Sebastien is director of NetConnex, a hosting company, Chairman and director of LONAP, a not-for-profit Internet Exchange Point and co-founder of thinkbroadband.com, an independent broadband information site. 

Sebastien has been a non-executive director since 2007.

Clive Grace - Non-Executive Director

Clive has a keen interest in the internet as an end user across the range of his business and personal interests, and a particular commitment to its self regulation. He was co-opted to the Board in December 2008 following a search by recruitment consultants Veredus, and a competitive selection process. 
 
He has extensive Board level experience in the not-for-profit, public and commercial sectors.  He Chairs the Research Councils’ Shared Services Centre Ltd, Supporta plc, the Local Better Regulation Office, and the Advisory Forum of the Board of BT Wales.  He is the Honorary Secretary of the Solace Foundation, and an Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff  Business School.
 
He is a Life Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (though not a professional accountant), and has been a CIPFA Council member since 2003 and Chairs their International Board.  Until 2007 he served on the Financial Reporting Council (which is the steward of the Combined Code of Corporate Governance) with a special remit for not-for-profit bodies.
 
He has been appointed to Nominet’s Audit Committee.
 
He is a former Deputy-Auditor General of Wales, and the former Chief Executive of Torfaen County Borough Council.

He has a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Birmingham, a Master’s Degree from the University of California, a Doctorate from the University of Oxford, and a Professional Diploma in Management from the Open University.  He is also a qualified (but non-practising) lawyer.