Brian Cute is Chief Operating Officer and Director of the Capacity & Resilience Program for the Global Cyber Alliance, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to build and work with communities to deploy tools, services, and programs that provide cybersecurity at global scale. He has been actively involved in the Internet Domain Name System and global Internet governance matters for over twenty years. He entered the domain name industry in its early days at Network Solutions. He contributed to bottom-up, multi-stakeholder policymaking processes at ICANN in a variety of roles, participated in global processes including the U.N. Working Group on Internet Governance, the World Summit on the Information Society, and the Internet Governance Forum, and is a keen observer of the evolving dynamic between Internet technology, end user communities, and governments. He entered the domain name industry in policy roles and evolved into business development and executive roles in both the commercial and nonprofit sectors.
He served as the CEO for the Public Interest Registry, the nonprofit operator of the .ORG Internet address. He led PIR’s development and launch of the .NGO and .ONG addresses offering a validated online identity for genuine NGOs around the world. He served PIR from 2011 to 2018. Prior to working for Public Interest Registry, he held leadership positions at Afilias, U.S.A., and VeriSign, critical Internet infrastructure operators and Top-Level Domain service providers. He served twice as Chair of the ICANN Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT1 and ATRT2), a multi-stakeholder review that provided recommendations to the ICANN Board of Directors to improve Board governance and the bottom-up multi-stakeholder policy development process.
Brian holds an LLM from l’Institut d’etudes europeenes, l’Universite libre de Bruxelles, a Juris Doctor from Quinnipiac University, and a B.A. from the University of Vermont.
