Veni Markovski
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Veni Markovski (born April 3, 1968) is a Bulgarian Internet pioneer. He is a graduate of the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” with Masters of Science degree in Law (1993)
Veni Markovski started working on the Internet in September 1990, by becoming one of the first system operators of a Bulletin Board System in Sofia, Bulgaria.
By 1993 he has founded and for 9 years was the CEO of the second in history of Bulgaria Internet Service Provider - BOL.BG. In 1995 he founded the Internet Society of Bulgaria - a non-profit think tank.
Veni Markovski has been Project Manager of a number of Free/Open Source Software projects, funded by the UNDP and the European Union.
Currently (2006) Markovski advises on International Projects the Chairman of the State Agency for IT and Communications to the Council of Ministers or Republic of Bulgaria.
Markovski has been member of the Bulgarian delegation to the U.N. World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).
He is chairing the Bulgarian President's IT Advisory Committee. Mr. Markovski has been a member of the ICANN Board (June 2003 - December 2006). He also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the international Internet Society (from 2002 to 2008), and has been on the Board of Directors of the CPSR (2003-2005).
