Tim Switzer is VP of Business Affairs at PIR, overseeing all growth initiatives and global channel relations, and is a 20-year industry veteran. He began at Neustar, and managed the TLD Registry team, playing a key role in three TLD launches – .biz, .us and .co. Tim served as COO at DotGreen which was a TLD focused on environmental & sustainability issues. Tim shifted his focus to the .com/.net TLDs, where he worked with key US channel partners at Verisign. Before entering the domain name industry, Tim spent 15 years at IBM and 5 years at a subsidiary of Visa focused on electronic banking.