============================================================ Jul 1994 Anthony Michael Rutkowski Short Resume' The Board of Trustees of the Internet Society on 7 Feb named Anthony M. Rutkowski as the Executive Director of the Society. The Internet Society is the global international organization which fosters the development of the Internet technologies, networks, applications and use. The Board consists of 18 eminent individuals drawn from every region of the world - most of whom were instrumental in creating and evolving different components of the Internet and the technology. The Society's membership - mirroring the Internet - consists of thousands of individuals and scores of companies, non-profit organizations, and government agencies worldwide. It provides the global organizational umbrella for standards, administrative, and coordination activities necessary for the implementation and evolution of internets. The Executive Director serves as full-time executive officer and provides day-to-day organization leadership. From 1992-94, Tony Rutkowski was Director of Technology Assessment in the Strategic Planning Group of Sprint International. His principal responsibility was driving the company in new and innovative directions through business planning, development and incorporation of advanced techn- ologies and applications generally, and internetworking technologies specifically. He followed and coordinated a broad array of technological, economic, business, trade, and institutional activities in the information-telecom- munication field, internal and external to Sprint. He was one of the founding Board of Trustees of the Internet Society and was the present Vice-President. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Internet Society News magazine - coordinating more than a hundred correspondents around the world through the Internet. The Society is the world's professional organization for advancing and standardizing internet technologies and applications. He also remains a Research Associate with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1987 to 1992, he was the Counsellor to two different Secretary-Generals of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva - the world's intergovernmental organization for telecommunications. He was responsible for analysis of major developments in the field and formulation of policies and international provisions, including the many technical, legal, regulatory, organization management and GATT trade issues that arose at the highest international business and governmental levels. He came to the ITU in 1987 as head of its Telecommunication Regulations and Relations Between Members Division - which supports the coordination of laws, regulations, and operational information among national administrations and public telecom service providers. An electrical engineer (B.S.E.E.) - lawyer (J.D.), Rutkowski has for the past 30 years enjoyed a wide variety of positions in private and public sectors in the telecommunication and information industry - domestic and international; in business, government, and education. Previous significant positions include: publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the industry's leading trade magazine, Telecommunications (1986-87) serving as staff advisor to the two Chief Scientists of the FCC, analyzing and shaping a wide variety of key domestic and international science and technology policies and strategies in the telecommunications field within the FCC and among other government agencies (1979-1986) teaching in New York Law School's graduate program in telecommunications law (1980-83) serving as staff technical advisor to the FCC Cable Television Bureau and special international advisor in the Office of Plans and Policy (1974-1980) direct responsibility for design engineering and management support of the Apollo project communication systems and Shuttle control systems at the Kennedy Space Center (1967-74) election to local public office in Florida as a leading community legislative reformer (1972-74) In previous incarnations, he was a research microbiologist and broadcast engineer. He has been active in the IEEE, ABA, and numerous other forums - including in several instances, their creation. He has authored or contributed to several books, and written more than 100 published articles and reports over the past decade. He has testified as a Congressional expert witness, and remains a visible and prolific analyst-writer - appearing at many industry forums. He is 51 years old, enjoys biking and mountaineering, is married to sinologist-economist-analyst-writer Kathleen McGlynn Rutkowski who now publishes the leading K-12 Internet newsletter, and with two little computer-weenies, operates a home Internet and help reshape the world through these technologies. ============================================================