Veni Markovski

Veni Markovski
September 25, 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria
Born	(1968-04-03) 3 April 1968 (age 50) Skopje, SFRY, now Republic of Macedonia
Occupation	Internet, President of ISOC-Bulgaria
Parent(s)	Mile Markovski

Veni Milanov Markovski is a Bulgarian Internet pioneer, co-founder and CEO (until 2002) of bol.bg, the second in the history of Bulgaria Internet Service Provider. He is currently ICANN's Vice-President for UN engagement, based in New York.

Markovski is a graduate of the Law Faculty of the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” with Masters of Science degree in Law (1997).

Veni Markovski first came into contact with the Internet in September 1990, by becoming one of the first system operators of a Bulletin Board System, part of FidoNet in Sofia, Bulgaria.

In 1993 he co-founded and was CEO until 2002 of bol.bg, the second in the Internet history of Bulgaria Internet Service Provider, which was using in the beginning the Russian private network GlasNet to connect to the Internet. In 1995 Markovski co-founded the Internet Society of Bulgaria - a non-profit think tank, promoting Internet usage and digital rights in Bulgaria. The company was sold entirely in 2008 to a foreign investor.

Veni Markovski was project managing a number of Free/Open Source Software projects, funded by the UNDP and the European Union.

From 2006 until 2009, Markovski was Senior Adviser on international projects to the Chairman of Bulgarian State Agency for IT and Communications to the Council of Ministers. From December 2012 he was ICANN's Vice-President, responsible for Russia, Eastern Europe, and the CIS (He was the ICANN's regional manager for the same region since 2007.). Starting March 20, 2014 he's vice-president, responsible for relations with the UN, UN agencies, and the permanent missions to the UN. He is the CEO of a privately held consulting company, and participates regularly in events, related to Internet public policy and cybersecurity.