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Jim Rutt is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder and former CEO of Network Solutions, the first company to register domain names on the Internet. He is also the founder of the Jim Rutt Foundation, a philanthropic organization that supports education, health, and the environment. Rutt was born in 1954 in New York City. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1976. He then went on to earn an MBA from the Wharton School of Business in 1978. Rutt began his career in the financial services industry, working for the investment banking firm of Lehman Brothers. In 1993, he founded Network Solutions, which became the first company to register domain names on the Internet. The company went public in 1997 and was acquired by VeriSign in 2000. Rutt is also the founder of the Jim Rutt Foundation, which supports education, health, and the environment. He is a member of the board of directors of the National Geographic Society and the World Resources Institute. Rutt is married and has two children. He currently resides in Washington, D.C.

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1999

Rutt was the CEO of Network Solutions, an American technology and Internet company. He was hired in 1999 during the dot-com boom, and negotiated the company's $15 billion acquisition by Verisign, where it continued operating as an independent subsidiary. In March 2001, after the acquisition, he subsequently stepped down from his position as a Verisign executive. After retiring, New Mexico governor Bill Richardson appointed Rutt to serve on the State Investment Council. In 2014, Rutt co-founded a makerspace in Staunton, Virginia with software engineer Dan Fulk.

1981

In 1981, Rutt was the first to use the term "snail mail" to describe conventional mail services, in contrast with email. Rutt was the chairman of the Santa Fe Institute, a multi-disciplinary research organization, before retiring in 2012. He does research into the scientific study of consciousness and artificial general intelligence.

1975

In 1975, Rutt received a bachelor's degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He later ran technology operations for Thomson Corporation.

1954

Jim Rutt (born 1954) is an American businessman and entrepreneur, the former CEO of Network Solutions, and the former chairman of the Santa Fe Institute.