Directors

The directors of Reinvent media group is:

Dr. Kevin Ham is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Reinvent media group.  He is a medical doctor by profession and a graduate of the University of British Columbia.

In 1999, Kevin founded his first internet business, a webhosting review directory. A year later, Kevin formed the Reinvent media group of companies, and today the group has offices in Vancouver, Canada and Barbados. The group’s IP, technology and media arms work together to connect the hearts and souls of people around the world through words and visuals. Kevin is heading up several initiatives to become a dominant presence in the Web 3.0 Semantic Web, the advertising industry and local space, looking to reinvent media and reinvent lives.

A self-taught programmer, designer and businessman, Kevin has become a principal professional force in the domain name fraternity, where he enjoys the reputation as an innovative online media space leader with few equals. Through Reinvent he is leveraging new technology, ideas, human and intellectual capital to transform this direct navigation enterprise into a cutting edge, global media company. The business of Reinvent is centered on the most powerful and intelligent domain portfolio and technology platform in existence today.

In a 2007 cover story in Business 2.0 magazine, Kevin Ham is referred to as “The Man Who Owns the Internet.” The same year, Kevin was proclaimed “Domainer of the Year” by industry association T.R.A.F.F.I.C. He most recently received the “Industry Achievement Award” at the DomainFest 2008 Conference in recognition of his leadership in the monetization of premium domain names and portfolios
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DR CHRIS HARTNETT, Ph.D.
Executive Director and Chief Evangelist

Dr. Christopher W. Hartnett is the Executive Director and Chief Evangelist of Reinvent. In his role on the company Board of Directors, Dr. Hartnett provides strategic guidance for all Reinvent's initiatives and its global expansion. 

A pioneer in the advanced global telecom, internet and domain name industries, in 1992 Dr. Hartnett founded USA Global Link, Inc. and later Global Online, Inc. (GOL) and the publicly traded Global Online India, Inc.  USA Global Link was an international facilities-based long distance carrier with over 5500 employees and agents, and offices in 160 countries and territories. Between 1992 and 2001, Global Link was the world’s largest provider of discount international telecommunications services and has been credited with being the first to introduce cutting edge technologies such as; International Callback, Global Calling Cards, Internet Telephony, Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) and Settlement Rate Traffic Refile services on a global basis.

Global Online, Inc. (GOL) was one of the first international web-based meta-hub portal directories on the Internet with more than 5,860 distinct websites in 1997. In 1999, Global Online India, Inc. was the largest ISP in India measured by its public market capitalization. Dr. Hartnett served as Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of these companies whose aggregate market value exceeded $2.8 billion by 2000.

According to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), in 1994, Dr. Hartnett was the largest private owner of Internet domain names in the world. His current portfolio contains more than 3,500 global domain names and 28,000 other premium domain names – most of which were acquired between 1992 and 1996, long before the potential of the Internet was realized. Dr. Hartnett currently resides in the United States with his family and serves on numerous corporate and philanthropic boards.
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PETER DOUGLAS, B.B.A. [Hons], C.A.
Director

Peter Douglas brings a vast wealth of finance knowledge and technology industry expertise to his role as Director. Throughout the past 20 years, Peter has been a driving force behind the successful evolution of companies including ATI International and CIBC, and is a former partner with KPMG. With a broad range of experience in Barbados, Canada and the Eastern Caribbean, Peter's international focus and wide ranging contacts provide an excellent foundation for understanding what it takes to compete and lead in the global marketplace.

Most recently, Peter was General Manager of ATI International SRL, a Barbados-based subsidiary of ATI Technologies Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of innovative visual processor solutions. Peter holds a BA Honors in Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business Administration at the University of Western Ontario and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (Canada) and Barbados.
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CHRISTOPHER H. SKINNER, B.COM [HONS], ACIS
Director

Christopher Skinner is a Barbados business leader who brings over twenty five years of financial and business management experience to his role as Director in the Reinvent media group. Christopher's track record of successfully managing Barbados private sector companies and International Business Corporations will help guide Reinvent's strategic and operational plans.

Christopher is currently Operations Manager at CooperVision International Holding Co. LP, and has previously held roles as the General Manager at AMR International Corp. and the Managing Director for Delrina International Corporation (Symantec).

Christopher holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours Business Administration) from the University of Windsor, and is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators of Canada.
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