Region: North America
Country: USA
LinkedIn:    Marilyn Cade
Currently a member
of the GNSO's BC


Has attended 30+
ICANN Meetings


Featured in the ICANN 51 - Los Angeles playing card deck

Marilyn Cade (1947-2020) was the Principal and CEO of mCADE, ICT Strategies, a consulting firm that provided strategy and advice in Internet governance for clients such as Overstock.[1]

ICANN Involvement edit

Cade was involved in the group that first formed ICANN. She explained in an interview with the podcast POWER PLAYS that she formed ICANN after having dinner with Mack McLarty, President Clinton's chief of staff, and he suggested she speak with Ira Magaziner, who was at the time developing President Clinton's e-commerce agenda.[2] Cade spoke with Magaziner and they put together the first blueprints for what would become ICANN.

Cade served as a GNSO Councilor; chaired the Business Constituency for three subsequent terms, and was a part of the Executive Committee of the Commercial Stakeholder Group. She also served on the ICANN Nominating Committee, chaired the first WHOIS Task Force and Transfers Working group, and for three years was an appointee to the ICANN President’s Strategy Group, a bottom-up consultation process within ICANN that led to the support by the ICANN community for the Affirmation of Commitments.

Work edit

mCADE ICT Strategies provides advice and consultation on issues related to Internet policy matters: Internet Governance, ICANN, NGN, Internet connectivity/International Internet connectivity, IPv6; DNSSEC; Cyber Security, protecting kids online, and social networks[3].

Marilyn Cade also leads industry initiatives related to the Internet Governance Forum and policy issues related to ICANN.

Career History edit

Ms. Cade established mCADE, ICT Strategies in 2005, following a distinguished career in technology and related policy issues within AT&T, and a ten-year career in state government and NGOs[4].

Education edit

Marilyn attended Saint Louis University.[5]

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