Alexa Raad

Alexa Raad, CEO of Architelos

Alexa is the CEO of Architelos, a strategy and marketing consultancy that focuses on growth, brand and positioning, and business development for clients within the Internet and DNS sectors. Architelos is a team of industry executives and leaders with a long history of turning change into innovation and success. Alexa has the unique distinction of having launched a new gTLD (.mobi) successfully, as well as having guided an incumbent gTLD (.ORG) to beating the market growth rates.

She served as the CEO of .ORG the Public Interest Registry (PIR) from July 2007 to September 24th 2010. She has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications, payment, and Internet sectors, including 10 years in the domain names industry. She engineered .ORG's brand re-positioning and growth, both in revenues and in market share, from 6 million in registrations to over 8 million, and from $35 million to $54 million from 2007 to 2010 respectively. During her tenure, PIR was named a FUTURE 50 company, a recognition reserved for the 50 fastest growing companies in the Greater Washington Area.

Prior to PIR, Alexa co-founded dotmobi, a top-level domain for the mobile market. She also founded the DNSSEC Industry Coalition and the Registration Infrastructure Security Group (RISG), both international industry groups focused on innovative approaches to resolving security issues on the Internet.

Education

Alexa received her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Maryland, and her MBA an MSIS from George Washington University. She is currently a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the National Association of Corporate Directors, VISTAGE, GWU Luther Rice Society, Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), and the Economic Club of Washington. Location: Leesburg, VA