Eliot Cutler

Eliot Cutler, Chair, OneMaine; Chair, MaineAsia LLC

Topic: No Guts No Glory

Eliot R. Cutler was born and raised in Bangor, Maine.  Following his graduation from Harvard College and the law school of Georgetown University, he forged a career in private enterprise and public service.  Widely respected for his strategic acumen, Eliot Cutler has helped governments, citizens groups and corporate clients grapple with complicated legal and public policy problems during a career in government service, law and politics that has spanned more than 40 years.

Eliot Cutler resigned as a partner in the Akin Gump law firm when he began his 2010 gubernatorial campaign, and he serves today as a Senior Counsel to the firm.  He is Chair of MaineAsia LLC, a business development and consulting firm, and he is a principal in Maine Seafood Ventures LLC, a company formed to export lobster and other Maine seafood products to China and other foreign markets.  He is also a principal in Pacific Islands Development LLC, a firm formed to undertake sustainable and eco-friendly projects in the tourism, agriculture and fishery sectors of Palau and other island nations in the western Pacific.

In the public service area, Eliot serves as Chair of OneMaine, a political organization that organizes and marshals the collective strength of political moderates in the State of Maine.  He is President of the Lerner Foundation and a member of the Board of Directors of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute.  Eliot continues to serve on the Board of Visitors of the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine, where as Chair for more than a decade he helped lead the School to its position as one of the leading graduate schools of public policy in the United States.    

Eliot and his wife Dr. Melanie Stewart Cutler have been married for 38 years and live in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.  They are the parents of two grown children, Abby (30) and Zack (28), and Katherine Cochrane (24) joined their family in 2004.  

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