Brian Cute
Country: | USA |
Email: | bcute [at] afilias.info |
LinkedIn: | [brian-cute Brian Cute] |
Twitter: | @bcute17 |
Brian Cute is the Vice President at Afilias Discovery Services and the President at Eastham Global Strategies, L.L.C.[1] .
He has over 12 years experience in the Internet and communications industry. His job responsibilities at Afilias include providing secure and selective visibility services to global supply chain participants. Brian has been active in IT and domain industry, policy and market development since 2005.[2]
His work in the domain industry includes registrar and registry experience leading initiatives on Wait List Service, private domain registrations, the elimination of BulkWHOIS, the .net RFP, the .com contract approval as well as representing the private sector in the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society. He has been active in the industry since 2003 having served as Director of Policy for Network Solutions and Vice President Government Relations at VeriSign prior to joining Afilias.[3]
Brian Cute attended East Providence High School(1978 — 1981) and University of Vermont (1981 — 1986). He has a Juris Doctor (1989 — 1991) in Law from University of Bridgeport, another Juris Doctor (1989 — 1991) in Law Quinnipiac University School of Law and a Licence en droit communautaire(1993 — 1994) in Law from Université libre de Bruxelles.
Brian began his career as a lawyer representing competitive telecommunication service providers and subsequently serving as Senior Counsel at Teleglobe Communications advising country managers on the expansion of Teleglobe's submarine cable, satellite and terrestrial network in Europe and Asia.
In 2009,Brian Cute was appointed to serve on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Online Safety and Technology Working Group.[4]
Career History
- From 2000 to 2003 he worked as a Senior Counsel at Teleglobe Communications Corporation.
- From February 2003 to May 2004 he served as the Director of Policy at Network Solutions.
- He served as the Vice President of Government Relations at VeriSign, Inc from May 2004 to March 2007.
- He has been serving as the President of Eastham Global Strategies, L.L.C. since May 2007.
- From August 2008, he has been serving as the Vice President of Discovery Services at Afilias.