He is managing partner of Schollmeyer & Rickert Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, a law firm with offices in Bonn and Frankfurt am Main. Thomas has extensive experience in the domain industry working on domain disputes as well as advising Registrars, Registry Service Providers and new gTLD applicants both on contractual as well as policy matters. Thomas is an expert speaker on domain related subjects both at the national at international level. Thomas has been appointed by ICANN's Nominating Committee to serve on the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO), which is the body responsible for managing policy development for generic domain names. © Bayern Connect 2014