Richard Adler is Principal at People and Technology. Mr. Adler has been involved in the field
of aging and technology
for more than a decade. His clients include computer and communications firms worldwide. Mr. Adler was formerly a vice
president for at SeniorNet,
where he pioneered research on use of computers by older Americans. Prior to that, he was a director at the Institute for the
Future, where he
conducted research on consumer interest in online services. Mr. Adler holds an M.A. from UC Berkeley and an MBA from the
McLaren School of Business at
the University of San Francisco.
George S. Ake is Program Manager at the Capital Wireless Integrated Network (CapWIN) project
where he is responsible for
overall coordination of a project to implement an integrated voice and mobile data network for transportation and public
safety in the Washington D.C.
region. He is also Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Maryland's Civil and Environmental Engineering program.
His prior experience
includes service with North Carolina Highway Patrol where he was Major, Director of Research and Planning, and was responsible
for accreditation;
information management unit; medical services; promotional system; and the research and planning section. He has also served
on the IACP -
Communications and Technology Committee; and National Institute of Justice - National Task Force on Interoperability (2002).
Mr. Ake received his
Master's of Public Administration from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina and his B.A.S., Administration
of Justice from Guilford
College, Greensboro, N.C.
James Alleman is a professor at the College of Engineering and Applied Science, University
of Colorado at Boulder.
Dr. Alleman spent two years as Visiting Associate Professor in the Media, Communications, and Entertainment Program in the
Economics and Finance
Division at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, and as Director of Research at Columbia Institute of
Tele-Information (CITI). He continues
his involvement at CITI in research projects as a Senior Fellow. Dr. Alleman was previously the Director of the International
Center for
Telecommunications Management at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Director of Policy Research for GTE, and an economist
for the International
Telecommunication Union.
Gary Arlen is president of Arlen Communications. Inc., a Bethesda, Maryland, research and
consulting firm specializing
in media, telecommunications, and interactive program content. For nearly 20 years, Mr. Arlen has analyzed the emergence of
new media, forecasting the
evolution of customer-controlled video and data services. Mr. Arlen has published future-looking periodicals and consults for
clients seeking strategic
and business guidance to enter these new markets. His clients include media, financial, entertainment, telecommunications, and
marketing firms - plus
technology start-ups. His outlooks are published in industry journals, and his commentary is widely sought in the business and
consumer press.
Sonia Arrison is director of Technology Studies at the California-based Pacific Research
Institute.
Ms. Arrison researches and writes on privacy policy, electronic commerce, e-government, Internet taxation, intellectual
property, and
telecommunications. She is a regular columnist for
TechCentralStation.com and her work has appeared in many publications including CBS
MarketWatch, CNNfn , LA Times, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury
News, The National Post , Washington Times, and Consumer Research Magazine. Ms. Arrison is author of Consumer Privacy:
A Free Choice
Approach, co-author of Internet Taxes: What California
Legislators Should Know, and editor of Telecrisis: How Regulation Stifles High Speed Internet Access. Prior to
joining PRI, Ms. Arrison
focused on Canadian-U.S. regulatory and political issues at the Donner Canadian Foundation. She also worked at the Fraser
Institute in Vancouver, where
she specialized in regulatory policy and privatization. She received her B.A. from the University of Calgary and an M.A. from
the University of British
Columbia.
Robert C. Atkinson is the Executive Director of the Columbia Institute for
Tele-Information. Prior to joining CITI,
Mr. Atkinson was the Deputy Chief of the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau. He also worked for 14 years at Teleport Communications
Group (TCG), the nation's
first competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), ultimately as Senior Vice President for Legal, Regulatory & External
Affairs. When AT&T
acquired TCG in July 1998, Mr. Atkinson was Vice President and Chief Regulatory Officer of AT&T Local Services until he
joined the FCC. During his
tenure with TCG, Mr. Atkinson played a leading role in most of the key regulatory and public policy decisions that introduced
competition to the local
telephone markets and shaped the CLEC industry. Mr. Atkinson graduated from University of Virginia in 1972 with a Bachelor of
Art degree in Government
and Foreign Affairs. He later received a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center (evening program) in 1979. While at
Georgetown, Mr. Atkinson
was a member of the Georgetown Law Journal.
Rob Atkinson, Ph.D. is Director of the Technology & New Economy Project at the
Progressive Policy Institute .
As director of the Technology & New Economy Project at PPI, Dr. Atkinson educates policy makers about what drives the New
Economy and promotes
policies that encourage technological innovation and entrepreneurship. Previously he was a senior analyst and project director
at the former
Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, where he directed The Technological Reshaping of Metropolitan America, a report
on the impact of the IT
revolution on America's urban areas. Dr. Atkinson has a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Janice Aune was appointed President and CEO of Onvoy, Inc., a Minnesota telecommunications
provider, in September 2000.
She has extensive experience in building and managing telecommunications and data communications divisions within U S West.
Under her leadership, Onvoy
was named one of the top 50 fastest growing private companies in Minnesota, according to a leading business publication. Ms.
Aune began her 30-year
career with U S West in 1970 where she held positions of increasing responsibility in sales, construction, strategic and
financial planning,
engineering, data communications, systems, cable maintenance, customer care, and operations. She ended her career with U S
West (now Qwest) as
president of !nterprise Networking, a unit that employs 1700 people and creates and delivers broadband products and services.
She holds a degree in
business management and finance from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
James A. Bachtell is currently a Staff Attorney with the Institute for Public
Representation, a public interest law
firm and clinical education program founded by Georgetown University Law Center in 1971. He received his J.D. in December 2001
from the University of
Iowa, College of Law, graduating with distinction. Mr. Bachtell also holds an M.S. and a B.S. in Journalism and Mass
Communication from Iowa State
University. While a law student, he was a student intern in the Legal Clinic and a member of the Law Review. He clerked during
the summer of 2001 for
Foulston & Siefkin, L.L.P. in Wichita, Kansas. After graduation, Mr. Bachtell worked at the Law, Health Policy and
Disability Center in Iowa City,
Iowa. Prior to attending law school, he was a reporter and then Managing Editor for the Boone News-Republican, in Boone, Iowa.
Johannes Bauer, Ph.D. is Associate Director of the James H. and Mary B. Quello Center
for Telecommunications
Management and Law at Michigan State University. He previously served as Director of the Institute of Public Studies at the
Eli Broad Graduate School
of Management, also at Michigan State, and as a Visiting Professor at the Interfaculty Center for Infrastructure Management
and Design at Delft
University of Technology (The Netherlands). He currently serves as a consulting advisor and expert witness to public and
private sector organizations
in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Israel, and The Netherlands.
Frank Bowe, Ph.D. is a professor at Hofstra University , Department of Counseling,
Research, Special Education,
and Rehabilitation. Dr. Bowe has worked on technology and disability policy since 1977, when he was named by the House
Committee on Science and
Technology to a panel charged with reviewing the government's research enterprise to identify activities related to
disability. He has also advised the
Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and served on the U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance
Board. Dr. Bowe is also
Government Affairs Consultant for the National Association of the Deaf.
David G. Boyd is Deputy Director of Operations for Research and Development and Director of the
SAFECOM Program Office at
the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Boyd joined the DHS as it was being formed in March 2003. As the Deputy Director
of Operations, he is
responsible for the operations of the office, and for the management or oversight of the operations of all the Homeland
Security Laboratories. As the
Director of the SAFECOM Program Office, he is responsible for the national effort to achieve interoperability among the
communications systems of the
nation's first responders at local, state, and federal levels. Dr. Boyd came to Homeland Security from the U.S. Department of
Justice, where he had
service, since 1992, as the Director of Science and Technology for the National Institute of Justice, the criminal justice
research and evaluation
agency within the U.S. Department of Justice. Dr. Boyd retired from the U.S. Army. He holds a career appointment in the Senior
Executive Service, and
is a graduate of the University of Illinois-Champaign, Golden Gate University, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Walden
University. He holds
graduate degrees in Operations Research and Public Policy Analysis, as well as a doctorate in Decision Sciences. He is an
Adjunct Professor of
Operations Research and Information Technology at Capella University.
Matthew Brill is Senior Legal Advisor to FCC Commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy. Mr. Brill
focuses primarily on wireline
competition and broadband issues. Prior to joining the FCC, Mr. Brill was an attorney in the Communications Group at the law
firm of Wilmer, Cutler &
Pickering, representing wireline and wireless carriers and Internet service providers before the FCC and in the courts.
Before that, Mr. Brill clerked
for the Honorable Thomas Penfield Jackson of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Mr. Brill is a
graduate of Harvard Law
School, magna cum laude, and Dartmouth College, summa cum laude.
Kathryn C. Brown is senior vice president-public policy development at Verizon Communications.
Before joining Verizon,
Ms. Brown was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and a member of the firm’s Communications and Electronic
Commerce practice. For two
years, Ms. Brown was the Chief of Staff of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). She also previously served as the
Chief of the FCC’s
Common Carrier Bureau. Before working at the FCC, Ms. Brown was the Associate Administrator, Office of Policy Analysis and
Development, at the U.S.
Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications & Information Administration. Ms. Brown also worked for eight
years at the New York
State Public Service Commission as the Director of the Consumer Services Division and as Litigation Attorney and Managing
Attorney for
Telecommunications with the Office of General Counsel. Ms. Brown received her J.D., summa cum laude, from Syracuse University
College of Law in 1980
and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Marist College in 1974. She is admitted to practice in New York and the District of
Columbia.
Wayne T. Brough is currently chief economist at Citizens for a Sound Economy. He received a
Ph.D. in economics from
George Mason University, with fields in industrial organization and public choice. Dr. Brough previously worked at the U.S.
Office of Management and
Budget, focusing on transportation regulations; the United States Agency for International Development, focusing on market
reforms in Africa; and in
the research branch of an investment bank, where he covered U.S. domestic policies. Dr. Brough has published in books,
academic journals, and
newspapers on a wide variety of economic and regulatory issues.
Jeffrey Carlisle was named Chief of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau August 4, 2004.
Prior to that, he was
Senior Deputy Chief of the Bureau since June 2001, and the Co-Director of Chairman Powell's Internet Policy Working Group
since December 2003. Mr.
Carlisle is also a member of the Homeland Security Policy Council. During his tenure at the Commission, Mr. Carlisle developed
the Commission's
approach to Voice over Internet Protocol, managed review of applications by Bell Operating Companies for authority to provide
interLATA service, and
was responsible for the FCC's policies regarding broadband services, competitive entry into the local exchange market,
payphones, and bankruptcies.
From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Carlisle was an associate with the Washington, D.C., office of O'Melveny & Myers. Mr. Carlisle received
a B.A. in History from
the University of California, Los Angeles, and a J.D. from Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Carlisle also
received an M.A. from The
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where he focused on international law and the law and policy of international
telecommunications.
Rick Cimerman joined the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) in 1995
and is now Senior
Director of State Telecommunications Policy. He co-chairs the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee’s
Broadband Task Force, serves as
program Chair for the NARUC-NECA National Summit on Broadband Deployment and is past president of the National Coalition for
Technology and Education
in Training (NCTET). He served three years as Director of the Telecommunications Division of the Maryland PSC, at a time when
Maryland became one of
the first states to allow local exchange competition. Mr. Cimerman also worked for two and a half years at the Florida PSC
with an emphasis on
competition and emerging competition issues.
Benjamin M. Compaine, Ph.D. is senior consultant for the International Media Consulting Group and is a professor at Northeastern University and Boston University. Previously Dr. Compaine was Research Consultant at the MIT Program on Internet & Telecoms Convergence, and was twice Program Chairman of Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) on Communication, Information and Internet Policy. His research interests include telecommunications policy, mass media economics, entrepreneurship, as well as the political, social and cultural implications of changing information technologies. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Media Management and Journal of Media Economics, from which he received the Award of Honor for his "scholarly contributions and inspiration to the field of media economics." In 2007 he will become co-editor of the Journal of Media Economics. Dr. Compaigne received his MBA from Harvard University and Ph.D. from Temple University.
Braden Cox is technology counsel with the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Project on Technology
and Innovation in
Washington, D.C. His work lies at the intersection of law and technology relating to e-commerce, intellectual property,
telecommunications, and
cybersecurity. He concentrates on the ways that government approaches to regulating technology and the Internet hurt consumers
and stifle innovation.
He is a frequent guest on radio programs and his articles have recently appeared in such publications as the Chicago Sun-Times
and National Review
Online. Mr. Cox is the former counsel at Veriprise Wireless, a technology venture based in Atlanta. Mr. Cox obtained both his
undergraduate finance
degree and law degree from the University of Georgia. He is a member of the District of Columbia, Georgia, and Virginia state
bars.
Robert W. Crandall is the Chairman of Criterion Economics. Dr. Crandall is Senior Fellow in
Economic Studies at the
Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., a position that he has held since 1978. His areas of economic research are
antitrust, telecommunications,
the automobile industry, competitiveness, deregulation, environmental policy, industrial organization, industrial policy,
mergers, regulation, and the
steel industry. Dr. Crandall has been a consultant on regulatory and antitrust matters to the Antitrust Division of the U.S.
Department of Justice, to
the Federal Trade Commission, to the Canadian Competition Bureau, and to more than 20 companies in the telecommunications,
cable television,
broadcasting, newspaper publishing, automobile, and steel industries. He received an A.B. (1962) from the University of
Cincinnati and a Ph.D. in
Economics (1968) from Northwestern University.
Larry F. Darby is President of Darby Associates, a research firm based in Washington, D.C. He
focuses on issues of
information technology, telecommunications, and industrial organization. Dr. Darby concentrates on policy implications of
developments in broadcasting,
cable TV, telephony, trade and technology, and common carrier regulation. He has also served as senior economist in the White
House Office of
Telecommunications Policy and as chief economist and chief of the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau. Dr. Darby received a Ph.D. in
economics from Indiana
University.
Charles M. Davidson was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush to the Florida Public Service
Commission for a four-year term
ending January 2007. Mr. Davidson relocated from New York to Florida in 2000 to serve as the Executive Director of the
Governor's Information
Technology Taskforce. In 2001, Mr. Davidson was recruited by the Florida House of Representatives to launch the state's first
Committee on Information
Technology. Prior to joining the Bush team, Davidson was resident in the New York offices of Baker & McKenzie and,
subsequently, Duane Morris. In his
practice, Davidson was responsible for an array of regulatory, commercial, international, and technology matters in the U.S.
and abroad, including
international commercial claims against the Government of Iran and the Government of Iraq. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Mr.
Davidson holds a Masters of
Law in Trade Regulation from New York University and a Masters in International Business from Columbia University. He
received his baccalaureate and
juris doctorate degrees from the University of Florida, where he served as a College of Law fellowship instructor.
Sal DiRaimo is an experienced Communications Engineer on the New York State Technology
Enterprise Corp. (NYSTEC)
engineering staff. He has 20 years of experience in radar and wireless engineering with such organizations as U.S. Air Force,
U.S. Navy, U.S.
Department of Justice, and a number of New York State agencies. He has worked on numerous public-safety wireless
communications projects for New York
State agencies and municipalities including the Statewide Wireless Network project (SWN). He has led a number of engineering
projects in land-mobile
radio; satellite, and microwave links as well as data and ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) projects in New York State.
His work focus includes
engineering and engineering management. Mr. DiRaimo is the co-author of A Guide for Applying Information Technology in Law
Enforcement, on
mobile computing and wireless technologies for law-enforcement and public safety entities published by U.S. Department of
Justice, National Institute
of Justice.
John Edwards is President of the Telework Network and Chief Executive Officer of Telework Analytics International, Inc., telework consulting and software companies. Mr. Edwards is also the Chairman of the Telework Coalition (TelCoa), a not for profit association headquartered in Washington, DC. At TelCoa, Mr. Edwards is helping to promote the benefits of Telework as a means of providing businesses and individuals with an alternative work strategy. Mr. Edwards is a published author on teleworking and a prominent source of telework information. He received a B.S. in International Marketing and Transportation from the University of Maryland.
Milton Ellis is Vice President and Senior Consultant for the Technology Research Practice at Harris Interactive. Mr. Ellis helps develop ongoing studies on a range of issues within the technology industry and determine the necessary changes businesses need to make in order to provide better service to their customers.
George S. Ford, Ph.D. is Co-founder and Chief Economist of the not for profit Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies. Dr. Ford is widely considered to be one of the leading economists in the telecommunications industry and his work is frequently cited by the Federal Communications Commission and has been published in internationally respected journals and has been called to testify before state legislatures and regulatory commissions. Prior to working for the Phoenix Center, he was the Chief Economist for Z-Tel Communications, Inc., and Senior Economist with the Competition Division in the FCC’s Office of General Counsel.
Harold Furchtgott-Roth is President of Furchtgott-Roth Economic Enterprises, an economic
consulting firm he founded
in 2003. He also is a columnist for the New York Sun. From 2001-2003, Mr. Furchtgott-Roth was a visiting fellow at the
American Enterprise
Institute. From 1997 through 2001, Mr. Furchtgott-Roth was a Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. He is
one of the few economists
to have served as a federal regulatory commissioner, and the only one to have served on the Federal Communications Commission.
Before his appointment
to the FCC, he was chief economist for the House Committee on Commerce and a principal staff member on the Telecommunications
Act of 1996. Earlier in
his career, he was a senior economist with Economists Incorporated and a research analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses.
Mr. Furchtgott-Roth
received a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University and an S.B. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Martha Garcia-Murillo is an Assistant Professor of Information Studies at Syracuse
University. She worked at the
University of Southern California’s Center for Telecommunications Management where she was involved in developing
industry-sponsored reports in
telecommunications and cable. She also worked as a regulatory officer at the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva,
Switzerland, where she
wrote the working document for the negotiations among Central American countries for the harmonization of telecommunications
regulation in the region.
Prof. García-Murillo is currently on sabbatical as a visiting scholar at the Internet and Telecommunications
Convergence Center at M.I.T. She
has an M.S. in Economics and a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Public Policy from the University of Southern California.
James L. Gattuso is a r esearch fellow in regulatory policy in the Roe Institute for Economic
Policy Studies, where he
handles regulatory and telecommunications issues for The Heritage Foundation. Prior to joining Heritage, he was vice president
for policy at the
Competitive Enterprise Institute. In that position, he oversaw CEI's policy work, and supervised the overall management of the
organization. Before
joining CEI, Mr. Gattuso was vice president for policy development with Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) from 1993 to
1997, where he directed
the research activities of that organization. From 1990 to 1993, he was deputy chief of the Office of Plans and Policy at the
Federal Communications
Commission. Mr. Gattuso graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Southern California in 1979. He received his J.D.
degree from the University
of California at Los Angeles in 1983, where he was a member of the UCLA Law Review. He is a member of the California and
District of Columbia bars and
is the author of a number of articles written for newspapers, magazines and journals.
Henry Geller is a former Federal Communications Commission general counsel who has continued
to work on Commission
issues as a private citizen. In recent years, he has served as a communications fellow with the Markle Foundation, as a senior
fellow with the
Annenberg Washington Program, and, before that, as director of Duke University’s Washington Center for Public Policy
Research, 1982-89. He was a
lawyer with the FCC for many years, serving as general counsel from 1964-70, and later served as head of the National
Telecommunications and
Information Administration from 1978-81.
Robert Gibson is vice president and principal of Pimmit Run Research, Inc., a strategic
Internet consulting firm in McLean, Virginia. In 1993, Mr. Gibson co-founded Capital Area Internet Service (CAIS) of McLean,
Virginia. CAIS was one of the earlier "peer" networks at the principal Internet Network Access Point MAE EAST. He
has over 20 years experience in the telecommunications and computer fields, and has worked in a consulting capacity with the
U.S. government and major telecommunications companies such as MCI, Bell Atlantic, Cable & Wireless, and AT&T. His
knowledge and understanding of routines and key parts of the Internet is the basis of this document. Mr. Gibson received a
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a Minor in Computer Science, 1978, from Frostburg State University in
Frostburg, Maryland.
Tom Giovanetti is president of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), a non-profit,
non-partisan public policy "think tank" in Lewisville, Texas. IPI is known for its economic analysis of pending and proposed
changes in tax policy, with its emphasis on free markets, limited government, supply-side economics and dynamic scoring. IPI
focuses on issues of taxation, technology, education reform, and government regulation. Before joining IPI in 1993, Mr.
Giovanetti was Director of Marketing for a small manufacturing company in Dallas. His experience in the private sector offers
a real-world perspective on government policies and the effect these policies have on business.
James K. Glassman is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the
host of
TechCentralStation.com. He also writes a syndicated financial column, which appears on the front page of the Washington Post
business section every
Sunday and is published in other newspapers, including the New York Daily News and the International Herald Tribune. Mr.
Glassman is the author of The
Secret Code of the Superior Investor (Crown), which Business Week called the best financial book of the 2002 season and
Barron’s selected as one
of the year’s ten best. His first book, Dow 36,000 (Times Books), a bestseller coauthored with the economist and AEI
scholar Kevin A. Hassett,
was praised by Newsweek’s Allan Sloan for its “wonderfully clear explanations of financial theory [and] excellent
advice on general
investing approaches.” Mr. Glassman has given frequent congressional testimony, recently on subjects as varied as
telecommunications policy,
Securities and Exchange Commission regulations, Social Security reform, and personal investing.
Debbie Goldman is a Research Economist with the Communications Workers of America, where she
is responsible for
regulatory affairs and telecommunications policy. The Communications Workers of America represents more than 730,000 women and
men working in
telecommunications, broadcasting, publishing, healthcare, government, manufacturing, and other industries. She also serves as
the Public Policy Chair
of the Alliance for Public Technology. Ms. Goldman holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of
Maryland and a Master’s
degree in Education from Stanford University. She earned her B.A. in History from Radcliffe College.
Hance Haney is Director and Senior Fellow of the Technology & Democracy Project at the Discovery Institute, in Washington, D.C. Mr. Haney spent ten years as an aide to former Senator Bob Packwood (OR), and advised him in his capacity as chairman of the Senate Communications Subcommittee during the deliberations leading to the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He subsequently held various positions with the United States Telecom Association and Qwest Communications. He received his B.A. in history from Willamette University and a J.D. from Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon.
Thomas W. Hazlett is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and a
Columnist for the Financial
Times’ New Economy Policy Forum @ FT.com. His research focuses on law and economics, with particular emphasis on
telecommunications policy. Dr.
Hazlett received his Ph.D. in economics from U.C.L.A. From 1984 through June 2000 he was a professor at the University of
California, Davis, where he
taught economics and finance and served as Director of the Program on Telecommunications Policy. In 1990-91 he was a Visiting
Scholar at the Columbia
University Graduate School of Business, and in 1991-92 he was Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission in
Washington, D.C. He is
currently a Senior Research Associate at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information and a Fellow of the AEI-Brookings Joint
Center for Regulatory
Studies.
Charles L. Jackson is a communication and information technologies expert with over 30 years
of experience in
technology and telecommunications policy. He is Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at George
Washington University, where
he teaches graduate courses in communications. Dr. Jackson has served as an expert witness in litigation on cellular
telephony, cable television, and
other telecommunications and computer issues and has testified before state utility commissions. He has authored or coauthored
numerous studies and
affidavits on public policy issues in telecommunications and has testified before Congress on technology and
telecommunications policy. Dr. Jackson
earned a B.A. from Harvard College with honors in applied mathematics and M.S., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mark Jamison is the director of Telecommunications Studies for the Public Utility Research
Center (PURC) at the
University of Florida. His responsibilities include developing training programs and conducting research on telecommunications
issues. The PURC
training program has trained over 600 infrastructure executives and government officials from 90 countries. He is also
associate director for Business
and Economic Studies for the Center for International Business Education and Research, a research associate with the Center
for Public Policy Research,
the special academic advisor to the Chair of the Florida Governor's Internet task force, and an affiliated scholar with the
Communications Media Center
at New York Law School. From February 1993 through June 1996, he was a manager of regulatory policy for Sprint where he
developed policies on pricing,
costing, and market structure issues. Prior to joining Sprint, he worked nine years for state regulatory commission staffs in
the US. Mr. Jamison has
served on the faculty of NARUC Annual Regulatory Studies Program. His current research covers the globalization of
telecommunications, convergence of
information industries, and the international development of telecommunications competition.
William Jenkins, Jr. is Director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues at the U.S.
Government Accountability Office
(GAO). His areas of responsibility at GAO include emergency preparedness and response, elections, federal judiciary,
sentencing and corrections, and
bankruptcy. He was a Professor of political science prior to joining GAO as a Faculty Fellow in 1979. Mr. Jenkins has worked
principally in areas of
budget policy, defense, administration of justice, and homeland security. He was an Adjunct Professor at American University
from 1989-1993 and
from1995-2000. Mr. Jenkins has authored recent GAO reports on Emergency Preparedness and Response including: HOMELAND
SECURITY: Challenges in Achieving
Interoperable Communications for First Responders, (Nov. 6, 2003); HOMELAND SECURITY: Federal Leadership and Intergovernmental
Cooperation Required to
Achieve First Responder Interoperable Communications, (July 20, 2004); and EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: Federal Funds for First
Responders, (May 13 2004).
Mr. Jenkins received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Rice University; an M.A. in Political Science, and a Ph.D. in Public Law
from the University of
Wisconsin, Madison.
David C. John is a r esearch fellow at the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies
at The Heritage
Foundation. He has been involved in Washington’s top policy debates for more than 25 years and he continues that career
as Heritage’s lead
analyst on issues relating to Social Security reform. He came to The Heritage Foundation from the office of Rep. Mark Sanford,
R-S.C., where he served
four years as legislative director. John was the lead author of Rep. Sanford’s plan to reform Social Security by setting
up a system of personal
retirement accounts. John’s Capitol Hill service also includes stints in the offices of Reps. Matt Rinaldo, R-N.J., and
Rep. Doug Barnard Jr.,
D-Ga. While working for Barnard, John helped write one of the first bills that would have eliminated restrictions on banks to
sell securities and
insurance. In the private sector, Mr. John was a vice president specializing in public policy development at The Chase
Manhattan Bank in New York. He
also worked as director of legislative affairs at the National Association of Federal Credit Unions, and worked as a senior
legislative consultant for
the Washington law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. He earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism, an MBA in
finance, and a master’s
degree in economics from the University of Georgia in Athens.
Robert Johnson is President of Consumers for Cable Choice (CCC), a national advocacy alliance of public interest groups dedicated to bringing video choice to consumers. Mr. Johnson has been advocating for policies that benefit residential and small business consumers for more than 20 years. Mr. Johnson He received his B.S. in Finance and M.B.A. from California State University, Long Beach.
Diane Katz is director of science, environment, and technology policy with the Mackinac Center
for Public Policy based
in Midland, Michigan. Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Katz served for nine years as a member of The Detroit News editorial
board, specializing in
science and the environment, telecommunications and technology, and the auto industry. Her work has won numerous awards,
including top honors from the
Michigan Press Association in 1994, 1996, 1997, and 1998.
Susan Kennedy was confirmed by the California Senate to serve as a California Public Utilities
Commissioner April 14,
2003. As a CPUC Commissioner, Ms. Kennedy has been a leading voice for regulatory consistency, infrastructure investment and
promoting economic
development. She is a strong advocate for competition and regulatory restraint, particularly as it relates to emerging
technologies in the area of
telecommunications. Prior to joining the CPUC, Kennedy served as Cabinet Secretary and Deputy Chief of Staff for Governor Gray
Davis. Prior to joining
the Davis Administration, Ms. Kennedy served as Communications Director for U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, where she assisted
the Senator with the
development of legislation and policy initiatives, media relations, and community outreach. Ms. Kennedy previously served as
Executive Director of the
California Democratic Party and as Executive Director of the California Abortion Rights Action League. A resident of Marin
County, California, Kennedy
attended San Francisco State University.
Joseph S. Kraemer holds the title of Director at Law and Economics Consulting Group (LECG), a
consulting firm with
expertise in capital intensive industries undergoing structural change. He is an experienced management consultant who works
across multiple
industries, geographies, and client situations. He has assisted numerous companies to enter or exit a variety of
technology-related markets. Dr.
Kraemer serves on the faculties of both the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business and the Kogod Business School
of American University
where he specializes in business strategy and ecommerce courses. He has served on several boards, including Exigent (NASDAQ)
and the Center for
Telecommunications Management ( University of Southern California). The Progress & Freedom Foundation ( Washington, D.C.)
has designated Dr.
Kraemer a Senior Fellow.
Jeffrey Kramer is the Director of Public Policy and Strategic Alliances at Verizon. Prior to joining Verizon, Mr. Kramer was Senior Legislative Representative in the Federal Affairs Department of
AARP, representing the organization on
utility, telecommunications, death care, and consumer fraud issues. Before that Mr. Kramer was the Manager
of Political Affairs at
the Edison Electric Institute for nine years. At EEI he represented the electric utility industry on Capitol Hill and within
the Executive Branch. A
native of Brooklyn, New York, Mr. Kramer received his B.A. in American Government from the University of Virginia and his J.D.
from George Mason
University. He is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association.
Jason Kowal is Head of Research for Analysys Consulting’s operations in North America, where he focuses on the North American mobile and fixed markets as well as on global carrier issues. Prior to joining Analysys, Mr. Kowal was President of TeleGeography, a US-based firm specializing in primary research on communications traffic and networks. He received his B.A. in Political Science and Religion from Tufts University.
Christopher Libertelli is Senior Legal Advisor to FCC Chairman Michael Powell. Mr.
Libertelli previously was the
Chairman's Legal Advisor for wireline competition related matters, including unbundled network elements rules and broadband
services issues. Before
that, Mr. Libertelli was Special Counsel for Competition Policy in the Office of the Bureau Chief of the Wireline Competition
Bureau, and was an
attorney-advisor in the Policy Division of the Common Carrier Bureau, the predecessor to the Wireline Competition Bureau.
Before joining the Commission
in 1999, Mr. Libertelli served as an associate in the communications law firm of Dow, Lohnes & Albertson in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Libertelli received a
B.A. in International Relations from Boston University and a J.D. from the Boston University School of Law.
Robert E. Litan, Ph.D. is Vice President for Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation and Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Litan is also the director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center on Regulatory Studies. Formerly, he was associate director of the Office of Management and Budget, deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and a regulatory specialist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Dr. Litan received his B.S. degree in Economics, graduating summa cum laude, from the Wharton School Department of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania; his J.D. from Yale Law School; and both a Master of Philosophy and Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.
Donald Lund is a Research Associate Professor at the University of New Hampshire Institute for
Policy & Social Science
Research and Coordinator of the Advanced Technologies in Law and Society (ATLAS) Project. Dr. Lund has served as an Instructor
in the Dissent and
Disorder Management Branch at the U.S. Army Military Police School, as Director of Research and Evaluation with several
Community Mental Health
Centers, as Director of the Bureau of Program Evaluation with the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene and as Associate
Commissioner for Quality
Assurance with the New York State Office of Mental Health. His research interests include the interoperability of public
safety communications, the
implementation of incident command structures, the application of non-lethal weapons in crowd management situations, and
development of crowd control
strategies. Dr. Lund is an applied sociologist, who earned his baccalaureate degree at Middlebury College in 1965 and his
Ph.D. in sociology, with
specialization in social psychiatry, deviance and social control, from Yale University in 1969.
David E. Lynn is a member in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Docter, Docter & Lynn. He
specializes in Bankruptcy
Law; Commercial Law; and Reorganization Law. He was admitted to the District of Columbia bar in 1982; the U.S. District Court
for the District of
Columbia in 1983; the U.S. District Court, District of Maryland in 1984; and the Maryland and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth
Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court
in 1988. Mr. Lynn received an A.B. degree from Brown University in 1975 and his J.D. from Georgetown University in 1981.
Todd Main is a consultant for Issue Dynamics, Inc. in Washington, D.C. Mr. Main has been
involved in the field of energy,
the environment, and public policy for over a decade, first working as the Executive Director of the Texas Campaign for the
Environment, and then as
the National Field Director of Nader for President. He has written or contributed to reports on green energy, energy
conservation and efficiency, and
air quality published by leading NGO's. His most recent work on the emerging renewable energy based hydrogen economy will be
published in the fall.
Jill Rothenbueler Maher works as a consultant in Milwaukee, WI where she writes about information technology security. She has researched the policy aspects of technology such as ultra-wide band technology and low earth orbiting satellites, and conducted a statistical analysis of Americans’ internet use. At the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, she played an integral role in a major study of the space industrial base that examined whether the domestic space industrial base is sufficient to meet national security requirements for the next 15 years. Ms. Maher has published two articles on self-regulation of the Internet and one article on the military use of commercial satellite communications. She has a graduate degree in public policy from Georgetown University with emphases in International Trade and Internet Policy, and an undergraduate degree in technical communications from the University of Minnesota.
John Malone is President and CEO of Eastern Management Group, one of the oldest and largest
management consulting
firms focused exclusively on the communications industry. He provides professional services to leading edge communications
companies and governmental
institutions worldwide. He and his firm have advised every major telecommunications manufacturer, software company and carrier
in North America, Asia,
Latin America and Europe. John Malone has been professionally involved with the telecommunications industry for more than 30
years.
Randolph J. May is Senior Fellow and Director of Communications Policy Studies at the Progress
and Freedom Foundation, a
market-oriented think tank that promotes innovative policy solutions for the digital age. He examines policies relating to
deregulation of the
competitive telecommunications industry and the implications of competition for reform of the FCC. Prior to joining PFF, he
was a partner with
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan in Washington, DC, specializing in communications and administrative law. He has served as
Associate General Counsel of
the FCC and as a Member of the Administrative Conference of the U.S. He has published more than 35 articles on a wide variety
of topics ranging from
communications law to constitutional theory. He is an adjunct professor of law at George Mason University School of Law. May
received his A.B. from
Duke University and his J.D. from Duke Law School.
Viktor Mayer-Schöenberger is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's
Kennedy School of Government.
His research focuses on information and communication technology policy. He is also an expert on the European Union. In 1986,
he founded Ikarus
Software, a company focusing on data security, and developed Virus Utilities, which became the best-selling Austrian software
product. He was voted
Top-5 Software Entrepreneur in Austria in 1991 and Person-of-the-Year for the State of Salzburg in 2000. He co-chairs the
Rueschlikon Conference on
Information Policy, the faculty group on information technology policy, and the governance of information seminar series. He
is the cofounder of the
SubTech conference, and a member of the ABA/AALS National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists. He advises businesses,
governments, and international
organizations on regulatory and policy issues of information and telecommunication technologies, including e-government. He
holds a number of law
degrees, including one from Harvard and an M.S. in Economics from the London School of Economics.
David P. McClure is President and Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Internet Industry
Association, the primary U.S.
trade association for Internet commerce, content, and connectivity. A technologist by education and experience, Mr. McClure
has held positions in the
Internet, computing, aerospace, and environmental services industries. He has served on the staff of the Aviation and Space
Writers Association (AWA)
and the Software Publishers Association (SPA). He has served at the helm of the USIIA since it was founded in 1994. He is also
a member of the American
Society of Association Executives and its Technology Section Council. Mr. McClure has written and lectured extensively on
management and technology
issues, and is considered an authority on technology applications for business.
Lee W. McKnight is an Associate Professor of Information Studies at Syracuse University; a
Research Associate
Professor of Computer Science at Tufts University; a Research Affiliate of the Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence at
M.I.T., which he founded
in 1996; and President of Marengo Research, a consultancy. His research focuses on the global information economy, networked
multimedia, national and
international technology policy, the convergence of the Internet and Telecommunications industries, and Internet Telephony
policy. Professor McKnight
received a Ph.D. in 1989 from M.I.T.; an M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in
1981; and a B.A. magna cum
laude from Tufts University in 1978.
Joshua L. Mindel is Assistant Professor, College of Business, San Francisco State University.
He has a Doctor of
Philosophy in Engineering & Public Policy – Telecommunications from Carnegie Mellon University. Professor has also
worked for UNICEF, the
MITRE Corporation, Virginia Polytechnic University and Open Networks, Inc. He has written extensively on a variety of
telecommunications topics.
Lawrence E. Mitchell is a Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law
School. He joined the Law
School faculty in 1991 after having taught at Albany Law School since 1987. In the spring 1999 semester he was a visiting
professor at Georgetown
University Law Center. For six years before entering academia, Professor Mitchell practiced corporate law in New York City.
His teaching and scholarly
interests include corporate law and finance, and jurisprudence. Professor Mitchell has had articles on corporate law published
in the Cornell,
Pennsylvania, NYU, Duke, Vanderbilt, Texas, and Toronto law reviews, among others. He is the editor of Progressive Corporate
Law (1995), and
co-authored the casebook, Corporate Finance and Governance, with Lawrence Cunningham. His book Stacked Deck: A Story of
Selfishness in America was
published by Temple University Press in 1998 and was submitted for the Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction. In 2002, Yale
University Press published
his most recent book, Corporate Irresponsibility: America’s Newest Export, which was also submitted by the publisher for
a Pulitzer Prize.
Professor Mitchell recently has done substantial work using economic sociology to address corporate law issues, and currently
is at work on his next
book, a history of the development of American corporate capitalism from the late nineteenth century to the present. His new
casebook, Corporations: A
Contemporary Approach (co-authored with Michael Diamond) will be published this fall. Professor Mitchell is director of the
Sloan Program for the Study
of Business in Society and the International Institute for Corporate Governance and Accountability.
Ed Moran is a Deloitte Services LP (Deloitte Services) global specialist for Technology and he provides technology companies with consultative assistance in strategic planning, product innovation, market segmentation, competitive positioning, commercialization and industry analysis. Ed also is a Tri-State leader of the venture capital practice and leads the Convergence team in New York. Ed speaks and lectures in the United States and abroad on the topics of technology commercialization, technology trends, product innovation, business strategy, intellectual property and piracy, nanotechnology, technology transfer and the financing of technology companies. He has appeared on and been quoted in media, such as B2B, BusinessWeek, Chemical and Engineering News, CNNfn, Entrepreneur, Forbes.com, Informationweek, Nanotech Planet, the New York Law Journal, PharmaVoice, SmallTimes and Wired. Ed holds a law degree from New York Law School (where he was editor-in-chief of the Journal of International and Comparative Law) and earned a master in business administration degree in information systems and in management from New York University, where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma.
Connie Murray was appointed to a second term on the Missouri PSC on April 28, 2003 by Governor
Bob Holden. Governor Mel
Carnahan first appointed her in May 1997. Prior to that Commissioner Murray served in the Missouri House for three terms. She
has a law degree from
the University of Maryland School of Law where she was Notes and Comments Editor of the Law Review. Her current term expires
in 2009.
John Nakahata is a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Harris, Wiltshire &
Grannis. His practice focuses
on the development of competition in telecommunications markets, and the convergence of communications technologies and
services. Mr. Nakahata is well
known for developing innovative solutions to complex policy issues. He successfully spearheaded the first-ever joint effort by
local exchange and long
distance carriers --including AT&T, BellSouth, SBC, Sprint and Verizon – comprehensively to reform
telecommunications subsidy mechanisms and
interstate access pricing. He also represents emerging local, national and international telecommunications and Internet
companies before the Congress,
Executive Branch, FCC and state regulatory commissions. Before entering private practice, Mr. Nakahata was the Chief of Staff
of the Federal
Communications Commission under Chairman William E. Kennard and Deputy Chief of the Common Carrier Bureau, Associate General
Counsel for Competition,
and Senior Legal Adviser to FCC Chairman, Reed E. Hundt. Additionally, Mr. Nakahata served for five years as a legislative
aide to United States
Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Connecticut).
Eli Noam, Ph.D. has been Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia Business School since
1976. He is also director
for the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI). CITI is an independent university-based research center focusing on
strategy, management, and
policy issues in telecommunications, computing, and electronic mass media. In 1990, after having served for three years as
Commissioner with the New
York State Public Service Commission, he returned to Columbia. In addition to leading CITI's research activities, he initiated
the MBA concentration in
the Management of Entertainment, Communications, and Media at the Business School and the Virtual Institute of Information, an
independent, web-based
research facility. He has also taught at Columbia Law School and Princeton University's Economics Department and Woodrow
Wilson School. Dr. Noam has
published over 19 books and 400 articles in economic journals, law reviews, and interdisciplinary journals. He has served on
the editorial boards of
Columbia University Press as well as of several academic journals. He was a member of the advisory boards for the Federal
governments FTS-2000
telecommunications network, the IRS's computer system reorganization, and the National Computer Systems Laboratory. He is a
member of the Council on
Foreign Relations. Dr. Noam received an A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa), M.A., Ph.D. (Economics), and J.D. from Harvard University.
Andrew Odlyzko is director of the Digital Technology Center, holds an ADC Professorship, and
is an Assistant Vice
President for Research at the University of Minnesota. Prior to assuming that position in 2001, he devoted 26 years to
research and research management
at Bell Telephone Laboratories, AT&T Bell Labs, and AT&T Labs. He has written over 150 technical papers in
computational complexity,
cryptography, number theory, combinatorics, coding theory, analysis, probability theory, and related fields, and holds three
patents. He has an
honorary doctorate from Univ. Marne la Vallee and serves on the editorial boards of over 20 technical journals, as well as on
several advisory and
supervisory bodies. He is best known for an early debunking of the myth of Internet traffic doubling every three or four
months. Mr. Odlyzko received a
B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Hon. Michael G. Oxley (R - Ohio), Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and
co-sponsor of the
Sarbanes-Oxley legislation for corporate accountability
Jon M. Peha is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Public Policy and Associate Director of
the Center for Wireless and
Broadband Networks at Carnegie Mellon University. His work spans technical and policy issues of information networks. He has
served on legislative
staff in both the House and Senate, focusing on telecommunications and e-commerce. He launched an interagency U.S. government
program to assist
developing countries on information infrastructure, in conjunction with the U.S. Agency for International Development, Federal
Communications
Commission, State Department, and National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Dr. Peha has also served as
Chief Technical Officers of
network companies, and a member of technical staff at SRI International, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Microsoft. His research
interests include wireless
networks and spectrum management, broadband networks, voice and video over IP, e-commerce payment systems and policies,
market-based universal service
mechanisms, privacy, and cybersecurity. Dr. Peha holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford, and a B.S. from Brown
University. peha@cmu.edu, www.ece.cmu.edu/~peha
David Peyton is Director, Technology Policy at the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM),
joining the association
in May 1996. His assignments include issues in intellectual property, especially patents and counterfeiting; e-commerce,
computer security, and
homeland security; research and development; broadband deployment; and modern manufacturing generally. Mr. Peyton's previous
work experience includes
staff positions at two other trade associations, a consulting firm, and the U.S. Commerce Department. He began his career at
the National Commission
on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works. Mr. Peyton holds a bachelor's degree in government and foreign affairs, Phi
Beta Kappa, from the
University of Virginia and a master's in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley.
Joanne Pratt is President and Founder of Joanne H. Pratt Associates. Ms. Pratt is an internationally known consultant, researcher, and speaker on business trends—she is widely cited in scholarly and trade publications. Ms. Pratt assists organizations, corporations, and governments in training their employees to work from home offices and wrote the first guide on telecommuting for CEO’s. Her clients include the US Small Business Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Departments of Labour, Housing and Urban Design, AT&T, Sprint, Southwestern Bell Telephone and the International Telework Association and Council.
David Reed is executive vice president and chief strategy officer for CableLabs. He is
responsible for the development of
forward strategy for both technical initiatives and the cable industry. He also leads the Strategic Assessment area
responsible for research and
development projects addressing telecommunications technology assessment, business, economic, strategic and public policy
issues of immediate interest
to member companies. Prior to March 2004, he was Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning.
Mr. Reed has been at
CableLabs since 1994 during which time he has helped launch the highly-successful PacketCable, Go2Broadband, CableHome,
Strategic Assessment and
Bandwidth Management programs. Before working at CableLabs, Dr. Reed served for three years at the Federal Communications
Commission as a
Telecommunications Policy Analyst in the Office of Plans and Policy where he worked on video dialtone, personal communications
services (PCS), and
spectrum auction policies.
Philip Richards, vice president for Insight Research Corp. in Livingston, N.J.
Ron Rizzuto is Professor of Finance in the Daniels College of Business at the University of
Denver. Rizzuto has extensive consulting experience in cable telecommunications in evaluating the financial viability of new
technologies (video, voice, and data), and in the economics of telecommunications overbuilds. Dr. Rizzuto holds a B.S. in
finance from the University of Colorado and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. in finance and economics from New York University.
Bob Rowe currently serves as the Chairman of Montana Public Service Commission. He was the past
Chairman of the National
Association of Public Utility Commissioners (NARUC), where he also served as Second Vice President. Mr. Rowe is also the
former Chair of the Regional
Oversight Committee for US West. Before being elected to the Montana PUC in November 1992, he practiced law in Missoula,
Montana and represented
customers in utility matters before the PSC, among others. Mr. R owe has done extensive research and writing on utility
matters, especially in
electricity matters. Mr. Rowe received a B.A. from Lewis and Clark College; a J.D. from the University of Oregon; and attended
the Harvard Kennedy
School Executive Program; with additional graduate work in public administration and public policy. Before election to the
Commission, Rowe practiced
law, including representing parties in rate cases and other utility-related proceedings.
Trevor Roycroft, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Interim Director of the Warren J.
McClure School of
Communication Systems Management at Ohio University. Prior to joining the McClure School's faculty in 1994, he was the Chief
Economist at the Indiana
Office of Utility Consumer Counselor. Dr. Roycroft's research and teaching interests encompass telecommunications policy,
markets, and regulation. He
has provided expert testimony and comments before state and federal regulatory commissions.
Cynthia P. Ruppel, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Management Information Systems at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Dr. Ruppel’s research interests include the use of telecommunications to conduct business such as in telecommuting, e-commerce, and supply chains as well as the impacts of innovation adoption and diffusion in organizations. Her work has been published in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications, Database for Advances in Information Systems, Information Resource Management Journal, Business Process Management Journal, e-Service Journal, and other journals. Dr. Ruppel received her Ph.D. in MIS from Kent State University.
John Rutledge is Chairman of Rutledge Research, an economic advisory firm in Williamsburg,
VA. He also chairs the
Advisory Boards of B.V. Group, a venture capital, hedge fund, and real estate investment firm, and Saugatuck Capital, a
private equity firm. Dr.
Rutledge was an advisor to the Bush White House on both the dividend tax cut and rebuilding Iraq. Dr. Rutledge has an active
lecture practice, giving
talks on global economics, financial markets, investment strategies, the impact of technology on the economy, and strategies
for owning and growing the
value of a business. Dr. Rutledge began his career on the faculty of Tulane University and Claremont McKenna College, where he
taught monetary
economics, international finance, and econometrics. Dr. Rutledge holds a BA from Lake Forest College, and a PhD from the
University of Virginia.
Jonathan Sallet has combined a career in politics, public policy, the private sector and the
law. He is currently an
independent consultant. Mr. Sallet was active in 2003 - 2004 as Communications Director and Senior Strategist to Joe
Lieberman's presidential campaign.
Mr. Sallet served in the Clinton/Gore Administration as Assistant to the Secretary and Director of the Office of Policy &
Strategic Planning in the
Department of Commerce, focusing on economic and technology policy. From 1996-2000, Mr. Sallet served as Chief Policy Counsel
of MCI (later MCI
WorldCom) where he concentrated on issues arising from the implementation of the Telecommunications Act, including the opening
of monopoly markets to
competition and where he oversaw merger reviews concerning BT, WorldCom and Sprint. His technology experience also includes
work with Ira Magaziner on
technologies to guard privacy.
Jorge Reina Schement, Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University , Institute for
Information Policy, Co-Director.
Dr. Schement is Professor and Co-Director of the Institute for Information Policy, in the College of Communications, and in
the School of Information
Science and Technology at Penn State University. His research interests focus on the social and policy consequences of the
production and consumption
of information, especially as they relate to ethnic minorities. He has received awards for his policy scholarship from the
International Communication
Association, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Pace University, the University of Kentucky, UCLA, and Penn State.
Schement has served on the
editorial boards of twelve academic journals, and has edited the Annual Review of Technology for the Aspen Institute. He is
editor-in-chief of the
Encyclopedia of Communication and Information.
His policy research contributed to a Supreme Court decision in Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. F.C.C. et al. In 1994,
he served the chairman of
the F.C.C., as director of the Information Policy Project; and, at his request, conducted the original research that led to
recognition of the Digital
Divide. He introduced the idea of Universal Service as an evolving concept, a view adopted in the Telecommunications Act of
1996. Professor
Schement received his Ph.D. from the Institute for Communication Research at Stanford University, and M.S. from the
School of Commerce at the
University of Illinois.
Brooke Schulz is vice president for corporate communications at Vonage where she oversees
public relations, regulatory
affairs, marketing communications and internal communications programs. Prior to joining Vonage, Ms. Schulz was a senior
account executive at public
relations firm Weber Shandwick Worldwide. At Weber, Ms. Schulz worked with a variety of technology companies in the
telecommunications and consumer
electronics space including management of telecommunications, consumer electronics, and consumer brand accounts for the New
York office including
Broadwing Communications, 360 Networks, Sharp Electronics, American Airlines and 'all' detergent. Prior to joining Weber
Shandwick, Ms. Schulz was with
Ruder Finn Public relations in their healthcare group working with pharmaceutical products from Schering Plough and Novartis.
She holds a bachelor's
degree in English from the University of California Los Angeles.
Samuel A. Simon is President and Founder of Issue Dynamics, Inc., a public affairs firm
representing local phone,
wireless and technology companies, Chairman of the Telecommunications Research and Action Center, and the Chair of the
103-year-old National Consumers
League. Mr. Simon was a former Ralph Nader staff attorney who served as the leading consumer voice in the AT&T divestiture
process.
Hal J. Singer is Senior Vice President of Criterion Economics. His areas of expertise are
antitrust, telecommunications
and the Internet, spectrum policy, auction design and strategy, and information economics. Dr. Singer has prepared economic
expert testimony in support
of, or in opposition to, many major communications mergers, including AT&T-Comcast, EchoStar-DIRECTV, AOL-Time Warner,
AT&T-MediaOne, Bell
Atlantic-GTE, Deutsche Telekom-VoiceStream Wireless, and WorldCom-Sprint. He has made merger presentations to staff economists
and lawyers at the
Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, Federal Communications Commission, and Federal Trade Commission. He has
worked on pricing and takings
matters concerning mandatory access to telecommunications networks, as well as on empirical estimations of demand for
broadband telecommunications
services. Before joining Criterion Economics, Dr. Singer managed the telecommunications practice at an internationally
recognized consulting firm. In
addition, he has worked as an economist for the Securities and Exchange Commission and has taught microeconomics and
international trade at the
undergraduate level. He earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. magna cum
laude in economics
from Tulane University.
Solveig Singleton is Senior Policy Analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a
non-profit public policy
organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. Ms. Singleton is the former director of
information studies for the
Cato Institute. She served as vice chair of publications for the Telecommunications and Electronic Media Practice Group of the
Federalist Society for
Law & Public Policy Studies from 1996-1999. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Philadelphia
Inquirer, The Wall
Street Journal, The Journal of Commerce Internet Underground, and Hot-Wired, as well as academic journals.
She is the co-editor of
two books, Regulators’ Revenge (1998) and Economic Casualties (1999).
Larry Spiwak is President and Co-founder of the not for profit Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies. Mr. Spiwak is an internationally recognized authority regarding the legal and economic issues affecting regulated telecommunications and related industries. He has written numerous papers on these issues and has been cited by the Federal Communications Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Trade Commission, the Organization for Economic Co-Operation, and Development and most major U.S. newspapers. He received his B.A. with honors from George Washington University and J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Ray Steele is a Professor of Management, Telecommunications, and Information and Communication
Sciences and the founding
Director of the Center for Information and Communication Sciences at Ball State University in Indiana. He has created two of
the nation's leading
graduate academic programs in the telecommunications field, first at the University of Pittsburgh and later at Ball State
University. In 1993, the
Center won the National Networking Education Award from Network World Magazine, as well as the International Distance Learning
Conference Partnership
Award for K-12 Partnerships. He also created the first K-12 electronic school district model employing voice, data, video,
satellite, and fiber optics
in the late 1980s. He was twice President and Chairman of the Board of the United States Distance Learning Association
(USDLA), and he serves on their
board and is currently their International Ambassador. He is also a Board Member of the Irish Centre for Distance Education
Research and Applications
in Ireland and he serves as Chairman of the Board of the Indiana Distance Learning Association. He has provided expert
testimony and counsel in
Washington, D.C., worked with the FCC and several states legislatures and regulatory commissions. He has served as an Overseer
for the International
Engineering Consortium, with the Academic Development Committee of the International Communication Association.
The Hon. Bart Stupak was first elected to represent Michigan's First Congressional District in
1992. Rep. Stupak is a
member of the prestigious House Energy and Commerce Committee and serves on four Subcommittees: Health; Telecommunications &
the Internet; Commerce,
Trade & Consumer Protection; and Environment and Hazardous Materials. In response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,
Rep. Stupak was named to
the Democratic Caucus Task Force on Homeland Security. He currently serves as a member of a task force subgroup, the Domestic
Law Enforcement Working
Group. In that forum and by means of sponsored legislation he has fervently sought to train and equip local law enforcement
and other first responders
to be better prepared for potential bioterrorism attacks and other terrorist incidents. Congressman Stupak holds a J.D. degree
from Thomas M. Cooley
Law School, in Lansing, Mich. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice from Saginaw Valley State College in 1977,
graduating magna cum
laude, and he earned his Associate's Degree from Northwestern Michigan Community College in Traverse City in 1972.
Peter Swire is the C. William O’Neill Professor of Law at the Moritz College of Law of the Ohio State University. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area. Swire is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a consultant to Morrison & Foerster, LLP. He is director of the Moritz summer program in D.C. From March, 1999 until January, 2001 Swire served as the Clinton Administration's Chief Counselor for Privacy, in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.
Richard D. Taylor is Professor and James and Barbara Palmer Chair in Telecommunications
Studies in the College of
Communications at the Pennsylvania State University , where he is also Co-Director of the Institute for Information Policy. He
is a Director of the
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, and a Trustee of the Pacific Telecommunications Council. He is active in the
International
Telecommunications Society and a former Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center. In recent years, Dr. Taylor has conducted
studies and published papers
and articles on various aspects of electronic commerce, with an emphasis on consumer protection legal issues. Prior to joining
Penn State in 1989, he
was Vice-President and Corporate Counsel for Warner Cable Communications Inc. He holds a J.D. degree from the New York
University School of Law and an
Ed.D degree in Mass Communications from Columbia University . He is a member of the American Bar Association Forum Committee
on Communications Law and
the Federal Communications Bar Association.
Adam Thierer is director of telecommunications studies for the Cato Institute where he
conducts research on how
government regulations hamper the evolution of communications networks, including telephony, broadcasting, cable, satellite
and the Internet. He also
examines the broader economic and constitutional aspects of telecommunications policy. His writing has been published in the
Washington Post, Newsweek,
Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, Journal of Commerce, Forbes, and The Economist. Mr. Thierer has made media
appearances on National
Public Radio, PBS, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, Radio Free Europe and Voice of America. Prior to joining Cato, he spent
nine years at The
Heritage Foundation, where he served as the Alex C. Walker Fellow in Economic Policy, covering telecommunications and Internet
policy, antitrust,
electricity and energy policy, the airline industry, and federalism. Mr. Thierer earned his bachelor's degree in political
science and journalism at
Indiana University and received his master's degree in international business management and trade theory at the University of
Maryland.
Steven Titch is a Senior Fellow of The Heartland Institute and managing editor of InfoTech &
Telecom News (IT&T News), formerly IT Update. He is recognized internationally as a top telecommunications journalist and
analyst. His articles have appeared in Total Telecom, America's Network and Telephony. Mr. Titch has served as director of
editorial projects for Data Communications magazine, where he directed content development for supplemental publications and
special projects. He also has held the positions of editorial director of Telephony, editor of Global Telephony magazine,
Midwest bureau chief of Communications Week, associate editor-communications at Electronic News, and founding editor of
Cellular Business (now Wireless Review). Mr. Titch graduated cum laude from Syracuse University with a dual degree in
journalism and English.
Tom Tolman is Manager for Communications Technology at the National Law Enforcement and
Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC), part of the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ's) Office of Science and Technology.
Mr. Tolman is the former Director of the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council Support Office (NSO), a federation
of all major public safety associations. He also served on the Region 7 NPSPAC planning committee. Mr. Tolman is a 23- year
member, and past President of the Colorado Chapter of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO). In
addition to sitting on the P-25/34 Standards Steering Committee, he serves on the editorial advisory board of Mobile Radio
Technology and Radio Resource publications. He served as Vice Chair of the FCC's 700MHz NCC Implementation Sub-Committee and
sits on the Denver DeVry University's Technical College Advisory Board, as technical advisor for the Wireless Communications
course curriculum. Mr. Tolman is co-author of the National Institute of Justice Research report on State & Local Law
Enforcement Wireless Communications Interoperability (1998), "Can We Talk?" -The Public Safety Challenge (1999), and creator
of the popular NLECTC publication Understanding Wireless Communications in Public Safety (2000). Mr. Tolman holds a Bachelor
of Science in Business Management, and a Master's Degree in Technology Management from the University of Denver.
David G. Tuerck serves as Executive Director of the Beacon Hill Institute, and is professor and
chairman of the Suffolk University Department of Economics. Prior to joining Suffolk University in 1982, he was a director in
the Economic Analysis Group at Coopers & Lybrand, Washington, D.C. Prior to that, he served as director of the Center for
Research and Advertising at the American Enterprise Institute. Dr. Tuerck holds a doctorate in economics from the University
of Virginia. His dissertation director was James M. Buchanan, Nobel Laureate in Economics.
Gregg C. Vanderheiden is a Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison. His
interests cover a wide range of research areas in technology, human disability, and aging. Current research includes
development of new interface
technologies, network-based services, techniques for augmenting human performance, enhancing the usability of the environment,
and matching enhanced
abilities to environmental demands. He also studies and develops standards for access to Web-based technologies, operating
systems, and
telecommunications systems. He is director of the university’s Trace R&D Center, which works to make current and
emerging information and
telecommunications technologies accessible for as many people as possible.
Paul Vasington is a Vice President with Analysis Group, Inc., a leading economic, financial,
and strategy consulting
firm. Mr. Vasington specializes in complex issues of market structure, competition, and regulation affecting the
telecommunications and energy
industries. His expertise includes competition policy, technology, pricing, incentive regulation, industry restructuring,
service quality, plant
divestiture, and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Analysis Group, Mr. Vasington was Chairman of the Massachusetts
Department of
Telecommunications and Energy (DTE). He was appointed to the DTE in February 1998, and was designated as Chairman in May
2002. Prior to joining the
DTE, Mr. Vasington was a Senior Analyst with National Economic Research Associates, Inc. (NERA). He was on the staff of the
DTE from 1990 to 1996,
serving as director of the telecommunications division from 1992 to 1996. Mr. Vasington received a master's degree in public
policy from the Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University; and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Boston College.
Leroy Watson is Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Grange. His primary areas of
government relations
expertise are in rural healthcare, rural public safety, rural education, rural telecommunications issues, environmental
policies affecting agriculture,
and state-level grassroots education and information initiatives. Mr. Watson received a law degree from George Mason
University School of Law and a
B.A. in Political Science from the University of Vermont in Burlington.
Steven Wildman is professor of telecommunication studies at the James B. Quello Center for
Media Studies at Michigan
State University. Prior professional positions include: Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the
Program in Telecommunications
Science, Management & Policy, Northwestern University; Assistant Professor of Economics, UCLA; Senior Economist,
Economists Incorporated. Research
interests include: economics and policy for mass media industries; institutional underpinnings of law and regulation for
communication industries;
universal service policy; and formal models of communication processes. Dr. Wildman’s current work includes: rethinking
access policies;
institutional perspectives on regulatory regimes and investment decision by telecommunications providers; television and
Internet services as
competitors and complements; and licensing and access to innovations in telecommunications and information services. Dr.
Wildman holds a Ph.D. and M.A.
in economics from Stanford University and a B.A. in economics from Wabash College.
G. Mitchell Wilk is Managing Director at LECG, LLC. Mr. Wilk joined LECG in October, 1999, from
Wilk & Associates,
Inc., a public policy research and consulting firm he founded in 1991. Prior to this, he served as Commissioner and President
of the California Public
Utilities Commission (CPUC). Most notably for this NMRC report, Mr. Wilk directed the development of the landmark "New
Regulatory Framework"
for California's telephone industry.
Chuck Wilsker is President of the Telework Coalition, a not for profit association headquartered in Washington, DC. Mr. Wilsker works to enable the advancement of Virtual, Mobile, and Distributed Work through Research, Education, Technology, and Legislation. His interests include both promoting the benefits of Telework as a means of providing employment opportunities for disabled workers, including service disabled veterans, older workers, and rural workers, and its use as a critical part of disaster avoidance and business continuity programs. Mr. Wilsker is often quoted in both local and National press, including the Washington Post, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Federal Computer Week, GovExec.com, Government Computer News, NetworkWorld magazine, and ABCNews.com.
Glenn A. Woroch is an Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of California at
Berkeley, and Executive
Director of the Center for Research on Telecommunications Policy located in the Haas School of Business. He conducts
theoretical and empirical
investigations of competition and regulation of network industries, with particular application to the telecommunications and
computer sectors. His
research also examines antitrust policy toward intellectual property protection and various business practices. Professor
Woroch has been an economic
advisor to government agencies including the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Energy, and Justice. He regularly consults to
private-sector clients and
testifies on matters involving monopolization claims, mergers, intellectual property infringement, and economic damages.
Shing Yin is the Director of RHK's Telecom Economics program. He brings to RHK
experience as both an
analyst and a consultant to leading companies in the telecom industry. Shing's current research focuses on the current
health and outlook of
global service providers, based on fundamental financial, operational, and market analyses. He was an early
contributor to RHK's Internet
traffic analysis, which is now an integral component of the Telecom Economics program. Prior to joining RHK, Shing was
a consultant at McKinsey
& Company, where he worked within the Telecommunications Practice. He earned his BS in Applied Physics from Cornell
University and his MBA and MS
in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
David E. Young is director of Internet & technology policy in Verizon's Public Policy and
External Affairs
department. Before joining that department, he spent six years working in research & development on many advanced
technologies including Internet
telephony, data network architectures, and audio, video & image compression, and holds nine US patents. Mr. Young began
his career in
telecommunications with New Jersey Bell, where he worked in a variety of operations and staff positions. He received his
degree in Electrical
Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.
Michael Zink, Ph.D. is a Research Scientist and Technical Integration Leader in the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Zink works in the fields of sensor and distribution networks for high bandwidth data. Further research interests are in wide-area multimedia distribution for wired and wireless environments and network protocols. He received his Ph.D. degree in engineering from Darmstadt University of Technology.
Todd J. Zywicki is an Associate Professor of Law specializing in bankruptcy and contracts at
George Mason University
School of Law. He c ame to the law school from the Mississippi College of Law, where he had held a faculty position since
1996. Professor Zywicki
clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and worked as an associate at Alston &
Bird in Atlanta,
Georgia, where he practiced bankruptcy law. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia (1993), where he was
executive editor of the Virginia
Tax Review and John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics. Professor Zywicki received an M.A. in economics from Clemson
University (1990) and an A.B.
with high honors from Dartmouth College (1988). Professor Zywicki is the author of more than 25 articles in leading law
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