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Brian Cute began his career in 1991 at the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Export Administration working on export policy and enforcement matters. In 1996, he moved into the telecommunications industry joining the communications law firm Helein & Associates in Northern Virginia. His legal practice centered on competitive telecommunications service providers, emerging IP-based enhanced services and international telecom market liberalization. He subsequently served as Senior Counsel for Teleglobe, Inc., a Canadian international carrier and Tier 1 Backbone provider, advising on regulatory and government affairs concerning the acquisition of terrestrial, undersea cable and satellite network capacity in Europe and Asia. He then moved into the domain name industry in 2003 first as Director of Policy at Network Solutions and then as Vice President of Government Relations at VeriSign in 2004. In that capacity, he worked with ICANN registrar and registry constituencies in developing domain name policy and was active in the World Summit on the Information Society and the Internet Governance Forum. He also focused on Internet security issues including the global expansion of VeriSign's Regional Internet Resolution servers and the growth in DDOS attacks against the DNS infrastructure.

Brian established Eastham Global Strategies, L.L.C. in April 2007 which provides consulting services for Internet and communications service providers seeking to expand their business in the global communications market. Brian is a frequent industry speaker on Internet, telecommunications and RFID issues. He holds an L.L.M. in European Community law from the Free University of Brussels and speaks French.