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Elliot Noss has been a leader in the Internet industry for nearly ten years and has been a driver in the evolution of Tucows Inc. for the last seven. Trained as a lawyer he joined Tucows in 1997 as Vice President Corporate Services. He was subsequently appointed president and CEO of Tucows Inc. in May 1999.
During his tenure Tucows has grown to become a leading destination for Internet software and application downloads. In 2000 the company created the wholesale domain name registration market with the launch of the OpenSRS (shared registration services) platform. In August 2001 he helped orchestrate Tucows' merger with Infonautics Inc. under the Tucows name. Since then Elliot has rapidly expanded Tucows wholesale services to offer digital certificates DNS and email services to a growing international Reseller channel.
He champions areas of vital interest to the Internet community including; privacy ICANN reform and registrar matters the implications of emerging technologies and the emergence of small and medium-sized ISPs and web hosting companies as the unrecognized backbone of the Internet economy.
Elliot chairs the University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science Advisory Board and is a distinguished graduate of the University of Toronto where he earned a BA. He also earned an MBA and LLB from the University of Western Ontario | 