NSI NAMES WEB STRATEGIES VP

"To say Tony gets the Net is an understatement. Tony's diverse career spans more than 30 years in the Internet and telecom marketplace and he has participated on all sides of the issues ranging from GE to the FCC to the ITU," said Jim Rutt, Network Solutions' CEO. "His principled approach to advancing the Internet's growth and his dynamic insight into the Net's structure and capabilities will be a strong asset to the management team."

"From the perspective of a next generation Internet strategist, Network Solutions is poised to scale and evolve in many of the most important, interesting, and profitable of the emerging business and technology sectors," said Rutkowski. "NSI in position, people, and infrastructure is the foundation of Silicon Valley East."

Rutkowski is a global enterprise strategist, and has been a public official, organization leader, consultant, lecturer, and author in both the Internet and telecom worlds. During the past three decades of his career, he has held prominent positions in the business, public, and education sectors, in many different facets of the computer networking, telecom, publishing, and mass media industries, both domestically and internationally. This includes employment with General Magic, Sprint International, Horizon House, Pan American Engineering, General Electric, Evening News Association, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Cape Canaveral City Council, Internet Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and New York University Law School.

He is currently active in the following international organizations: Agent Society, Internet Law and Policy Forum, and the International World Wide Web Conference Committee. Rutkowski has participated in Internet projects on behalf of the Aspen Institute, the Rand Corp, the Register of Copyrights, the President's Framework for Global Electronic Commerce task force, and the Harvard Kennedy School Global Internet Infrastructure (GII) Project. He also serves on diverse advisory and editorial for-profit and non-profit boards including: WWW Consortium, Center for Democracy and Technology, Georgetown University Communication, Culture and Technology Program, PAAM 98 - International Conference and Exhibition on The Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agents, and Telecommunications Policy magazine.

Rutkowski holds a J.D. from Washington College of Law, American University, Electrical Engineering, B.S.E.E. from Florida Institute of Technology, and a degree from University of Detroit in advanced mathematics.

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