Robert Hall

Mr. Hall is the Chairman of Pool.com. Mr. Hall is also the CEO of Momentous, which invests in and/or owns companies with over US $30 million in annual revenues. Momentous companies include Zip.ca, Namescout.com (an accredited ICANN and AUDA (.au) registrar), Internic.ca and DomainsAtCost.ca (accredited CIRA (.ca) registrars). Together these companies have over 250,000 individual and corporate customers. Mr. Hall is a recognized industry expert and has spoken many times before organizations such as WIPO, ICANN, the US and Canadian Governments and various International police and justice organizations. In 1998, Mr. Hall sat on the Canadian Governments "E-commerce and domain name taskforce". This taskforce produced the report on domain names that was presented at the 1998 OECD meetings in Ottawa. In late 1998, Mr. Hall founded the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), the registry for the .ca domain. He was its founding chair in 1998 until 2000 when he resigned to focus on growing his own businesses. Prior to founding Momentous, Mr. Hall was CEO and founder of Echelon Internet Corp. and Internet Access Inc., an Ottawa based ISP that quickly grew to be one of the largest in the region, capturing over 30% of the Ottawa market. In 1996, Internet Access Inc. merged with Hookup Communications and began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Mr. Hall was one of the principal founders of the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP), the association that represents all ISP's in Canada, and held the position of Vice-Chair of CAIP and sat on its Board of Directors for its first 4 years. Mr. Hall hosted a radio show 'Surfing the Net' in 1995, and wrote a weekly column on the Internet for the Sun Publishing chain of newspapers for several years. Mr. Hall attended the University of Ottawa for Computer Science.