Martin Sutton


Country:	UK
LinkedIn:	Martin Sutton

Martin Sutton is a professional with a career spanning corporate and entrepreneurial ventures. As a former risk manager at HSBC, he managed the Group’s domain name portfolio and risks against online fraud and security threats^[1]. Martin spearheaded HSBC's successful application for its own TLD, .hsbc.

As one of the founding members of the Brand Registry Group, a non-profit global business association that represents its membership of dotBrand registry operators and future dotBrand applicants, Martin collaborated with industry peers to navigate policy complexities within ICANN, fostering best practices for these registries. His passion for innovation led him to co-found TLDz, an initiative committed to delivering tangible value and benefits to future TLD applicants.

Martin is also a founder and Managing Director of Top Dot Ltd, which helps major companies to improve risk management towards their critical domain names/digital assets, including their top-level-domain registries.

Within the ICANN community, he was co-leader of GNSO Subsequent Procedures Work Track 5 (focused on geographic names at the top level).