Broadband Policy Summit VI

James W. Cicconi, Senior Executive Vice President, External and Legislative Affairs, AT&T - Jim Cicconi, Senior Executive Vice President, External and Legislative Affairs, is responsible for AT&T’s public policy organization, and is chair of the AT&T Foundation. He has served in this capacity since November 2005, following the close of the merger between SBC Communications and AT&T Corp. Previously, Mr. Cicconi served as general counsel and executive vice president for Law & Government Affairs at AT&T Corp. Prior to joining AT&T in September 1998, he was a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. Mr. Cicconi also served in the White House under two presidents, including two years as deputy chief of staff to President George H.W. Bush, and four years as a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan. Mr. Cicconi currently serves as a director of El Paso Electric Company and the American Council on Germany; is secretary - USTelecom Board of Directors, a member of the University of Texas at Austin Development Board and the LBJ School advisory council, a trustee of The Brookings Institution, and is vice president of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation. He is chairman of the finance committee for the commissioning of PCU GEORGE H.W. BUSH (CVN 77) and a member of the NXTcomm Board of Directors. He has also served as a presidential appointee to the Review Advisory Committee for UNESCO and to the Administrative Conference of the United States. Mr. Cicconi earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1974 and a doctor of jurisprudence degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1977. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the State Bar of Texas.

Scott Cleland, Chairman, Netcompetition.org and Founder & President, Precursor® LLC - Scott Cleland is a precursor, a prescient analyst with a long track record of industry firsts. Cleland is President of Precursor LLC, which consults for Fortune 500 clients; authors the ?widely-read? PrecursorBlog.com; and serves as Chairman of NetCompetition.org, a pro-competition e-forum supported by broadband interests. Eight different Congressional subcommittees have sought Cleland?s expert testimony on a wide range of complex emerging issues related to competition and Institutional Investor twice ranked him as the top independent telecom analyst in the U.S. Cleland has been profiled in Fortune, National Journal, Barrons, WSJ?s Smart Money, Investors Business Daily, and Washington Business Journal.

David L. Donovan, President, Association for Maximum Service Television, Inc. (MSTV) - David L. Donovan was named president of MSTV on July 1, 2001. MSTV is a 52-year old national association of over 530 local television stations dedicated to promoting technical quality of free, local over-the-air television service and has taken a leading role in the transition to digital television service. Donovan has nearly twenty years of broadcast regulatory and policy experience. Prior to accepting the position of MSTV president, he served for over a decade as the vice president for Legal and Legislative Affairs for the Association of Local Television Stations, Inc. (ALTV). From 1987 to 1990, he was the mass media legal advisor for the Honorable James H. Quello, FCC Commissioner. Donovan also held a number of key positions at the FCC, including legal advisor to the Mass Media Bureau Chief and interim mass media advisor to Commissioner Patricia Diaz Dennis. Donovan came to the Commission from Boston, Massachusetts, where he was in the private practice of law. He also served as law clerk to the Judicial Council of Massachusetts. He earned his J.D. from the Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts. Donovan received both a Bachelors of Arts and a Masters Degree in communications from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He lives in Virginia with his wife, Jacqueline, and three children.

Clyde Edwards, Program Officer and Community Liaison, One Economy - Clyde manages community partnerships and program implementation for Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD as well as media property assignments in Seattle, WA, Dayton, OH, and Gulfport/Biloxi, MS. Prior to his role as Program Officer and Community Liaison, he coordinated, managed logistics and scheduling for CEO, Rey Ramsey. Before One Economy, Clyde was Legislative Assistant to the President of PodestaMattoon, one of Washington’s top ten high-tech lobbying firms, where he handled legislative tracking and client relations for eBay, Motion Picture Association of America, National Association of Broadcasters, and Reed Elsevier Inc., among others. In 1997, he began his career with former Congresswoman and current One Economy Board member Elizabeth Furse as her Scheduler and Legislative Assistant. He graduated from Mount St. Mary's University with a BA in Political Science and currently serves as a member of Mount St. Mary's College President's Council, an advisory board for the college.

Eric Einhorn, Vice President of Federal Government Affairs, Windstream Communications - Eric Einhorn leads Windstream Communications’ federal regulatory and legislative group as Vice President of Federal Government Affairs. Prior to joining Windstream, Eric was Executive Director, Federal Regulatory at SBC/AT&T. He worked at the Federal Communications Commission from 1999-2004 holding various positions, including Chief of the Telecommunications Access Policy Division -- the division responsible for universal service. Previously, Eric served as an associate at Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman in Washington, D.C., Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York, and clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Roger Strand in Phoenix, Arizona. Eric earned his B.S. from Cornell University and J.D., cum laude, from Boston College, where he served as a Law Review Executive Editor. Eric is currently a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association Executive Committee.

Harold Feld, Legal Director, Public Knowledge - Harold Feld is Legal Director of Public Knowledge, which seeks to ensure that the nation’s communications system (physical infrastructure, systems, content) promotes fundamental democratic principles and cultural values. Before that, Feld was Senior Vice President of the Media Access Project, and practiced telecommunications and media law at Covington & Burling. Mr. Feld has written numerous articles on Internet law and communications policy for trade publications and legal journals. Feld blogs on the Public Knowledge website and on his Tales of the Sausage Factory blog at www.wetmachine.com/totsf. Mr. Feld received his BA from Princeton University in 1989, and his JD from Boston University Law School in 1993, and clerked for the Hon. John M. Ferren of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Paul Gallant, Telecom/Media Analyst, Concept Capital - Mr. Gallant covers telecommunications and media policy for the Concept Capital's Washington Research Group. Prior to joining WRG, he served as legal advisor to the Chairman of the FCC. He has also served as legal advisor to two other FCC Commissioners. Mr. Gallant has previously held senior government affairs positions with Qwest Communications and with Broadband Office, Inc. In an earlier stint at the FCC, he helped draft the regulations that opened the cable TV and local telephone markets to competition. Before joining the FCC, Mr. Gallant served as a staffer for a U.S. Senator. He received a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and a law degree from Catholic University. He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife Janice and their two children.

Kathleen M. Grillo, Senior Vice President of Federal Regulatory Affairs, Verizon - Kathleen Grillo is responsible for developing and advocating Verizon's federal regulatory policy initiatives on a wide range of issues, including wireless competition and innovation, broadband deployment, video competition, universal service, consumer protection, and emerging technology issues. Ms. Grillo joined the company in June 2002 as legal counsel in the legal department’s federal regulatory group. She joined the federal regulatory affairs organization in 2003, where she represented Verizon at the Federal Communications Commission and on various industry conferences and panels on communications issues. In addition to her work at Verizon, Ms. Grillo serves on the Board of Trustees for the Media Institute, a nonprofit research foundation specializing in communications policy issues. She is also on the Board of Directors of the National Exchange Carriers Association. She is a former Chair of the Computer and Telecommunications Law Section of the D.C. Bar. She is also a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association and is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia. Prior to joining the company, Ms. Grillo was in private practice at Williams & Connolly LLP, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm. She was a law clerk to Judge Harold H. Greene of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Ms. Grillo earned a B.A. in English, with distinction, from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served as the Essays Editor for the Virginia Law Review.

Christopher Guttman-McCabe, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, CTIA – The Wireless Association - Since joining CTIA in May 2001, Christopher Guttman-McCabe has worked on a wide range of issues involving spectrum, regulatory mandates, and homeland security. As the Vice President for Regulatory Affairs for the Association, he is responsible for coordinating regulatory issues affecting the wireless industry. Prior to joining CTIA, Mr. Guttman-McCabe worked as an attorney for four years at the D.C.-based law firm Wiley Rein LLP. He served as an associate in the Communications Practice Group where he advised clients on wireless and common carrier issues, including licensing, compliance, and policy matters. Christopher started his career as a management and strategic consultant to the steel industry at AUS Consultants and later co-founded Jacobson & Associates, a metals industry management and strategic consulting firm, where he served as the vice president. Mr. Guttman-McCabe received his BA degree in economics from Swarthmore College and his JD Magna Cum Laude from Catholic University with a certificate from the Institute for Communications Law Studies.

Meg Hargreaves, Host, Broadband Policy Summit VI - Meg has spent more than 23 years developing information products and services for the legal, business, academic and government markets. In November 2009 Meg founded her own consulting firm, Rush River Media, which serves the strategic and product development needs of specialty information publishers. Most recently, Meg simultaneously served as President & Publisher of Pike & Fischer (A BNA Business) and Vice President and Publisher of BNA Subsidiaries, LLC. In these roles Meg was responsible for the operations of four diverse business units that produced legal and business information solutions, including: legal treatises and online reference services, newsletters, books, conferences, webinars, databases, market research, and advisory services. Prior to her tenure at BNA, Meg was Vice President of Publishing and Content Development for global competitive intelligence aggregator MarketResearch.com. In that role she led all aspects of editorial, product development, marketing and sales activity. Prior to her successful run at MarketResearch.com, Meg spent 13 years developing and marketing information products and services for LexisNexis, a member of the Reed-Elsevier global publishing family. She started her career as a research assistant in the Washington Affairs department of McGraw-Hill. Meg is a member of the Board of Directors of the Specialized Information Publishers Association (SIPA), a member of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) and has BA’s in both communications and history from the University of Scranton. She and her husband Phil DiFalco live in Great Falls, Virginia.

Julius Knapp, Chief, Office of Engineering and Technology, Federal Communications Commission - Julius Knapp is Chief of the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET). Mr. Knapp became Chief of OET in 2006, having previously served as the Deputy Chief since 2002. Prior to that he was the Chief of the Policy & Rules Division where he was responsible for FCC frequency allocation proceedings and for proceedings amending the FCC rules for radio frequency devices.

Anna-Maria Kovacs, President, Regulatory Source Associates, LLC - Anna-Maria Kovacs is founder and President of Regulatory Source Associates, LLC. RSA provides investment professionals with analysis of federal and state regulation of the telecom and cable industries. Kovacs has followed the telecommunications industry for over 20 years, as either an analyst or consultant. Her undergraduate degree in Economics and English is from Boston University. Her Ph.D., from Harvard University, is in Comparative Literature with extensive work in Economic History. Her MBA is also from Harvard. Kovacs is a CFA.

Hilda G. Legg, broadband consultant and former Administrator, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) - Ms. Legg is a prominent broadband advocate and champion. She specializes in strategy development and deployment, with emphasis on economic development in rural communities. She joined the law firm of Wiley Rein LLP in April 2009.

Mike McCormack, Executive Director, U.S. Telecommunications Research, J.P. Morgan - Mike McCormack is a Managing Director/Principal at J.P. Morgan in the equity research division covering the U.S. Wireline Telecommunications Services sector. Mr. McCormack was a runner-up in the 2006 Institutional Investor All-America Research poll. Mr. McCormack began his career in equity research as an associate analyst at Prudential Securities in 1999 covering the wireline services sector. Prior to joining Prudential, Mr. McCormack was a senior consultant and new business analyst at Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in the Global Financial Markets Group. In addition, Mr. McCormack co-founded Web Business Systems, an Internet business focused on hosting and managed services. He received an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School and a BA in economics from St. Lawrence University. Mike is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute.

Tim McElgunn, Chief Analyst, Pike & Fischer’s Broadband Advisory Services - Tim McElgunn has more than 20 years of experience and expertise in market sizing, forecasting, segmentation and share analysis in emerging and legacy segments of the telecommunications industry. He regularly generates studies and enters consulting projects on the strategies of U.S. cable companies, telephone companies, satellite TV providers and broadband-enabled application providers such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft. Before joining BAS in November 2006, Tim headed up U.S. consumer broadband analysis for eight years at Stratecast, a division of Frost & Sullivan. He also held senior analyst positions at both Datapro/NBI and Gartner Dataquest.

Paul E. Misener, Vice President for Global Public Policy, Amazon.com - Paul Misener is Amazon.com’s Vice President for Global Public Policy, and has served in this position for a decade. Both an engineer (B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Princeton University, 1985) and lawyer (J.D., George Mason University, 1993; Distinguished Alumni Award, 2001), he is responsible for formulating and representing the company’s public policy positions worldwide, as well as for managing policy specialists in Asia, Europe, and North America. Formerly a partner in the law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding, Paul also served as Senior Legal Advisor to a Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Prior to this government service, he was Intel Corporation’s Manager of Telecommunications and Computer Technology Policy, and leader of the computer industry’s Internet Access Coalition. In the late 1980s, Paul was a policy specialist for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, where he was a U.S. delegate to several conferences of the International Telecommunication Union. Prior to that, he designed radio communications systems.

Daniel Mitchell, Vice President, Legal and Industry Division, National Telecommunications Cooperative Association - Daniel Mitchell is the Vice President of the Legal and Industry Division of the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA). NTCA is the premier industry association representing rural communications providers. Established in 1954 by eight rural telephone companies, today NTCA represents over 584 rural incumbent local exchange carriers. All of its members are full-service communications providers and many provide wireless, broadband, CATV, IPTV, DBS, and other services to their communities. NTCA members are dedicated to providing competitive modern communications services and ensuring the economic future of their rural communities. Prior to joining NTCA in 1999, Dan was an assistant attorney general with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office where he represented consumer interests before the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy and the Federal Communications Commission. He was lead attorney in all investigations concerning the implementation of the local competition and universal service provisions in the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Dan earned a BS in business management from Fitchburg State College, an MS in finance with distinction from Bentley College, and a JD from the New England School of Law. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and the Federal Communications Bar Association. Dan resides in Fairfax County, Virginia with his wife, son, and daughter.

Steven F. Morris, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) - In his current role, Steve represents the cable industry on matters related to the regulation of telecommunications and broadband services. Mr. Morris joined NCTA in 2006. Prior to joining NCTA, Mr. Morris was the Deputy Chief of the Pricing Policy Division in the Wireline Competition Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission. During his tenure at the FCC, Mr. Morris was responsible for proceedings related to the Commission’s rules on intercarrier compensation and the pricing of unbundled network elements, as well as other matters within the Pricing Policy Division. Before joining the Commission in 2001, Mr. Morris was the Director of Regulatory Affairs for Global Metro Networks, Inc., a wholesale provider of fiber optic network facilities. Prior to that, Mr. Morris was an attorney specializing in telecommunications and cable regulatory matters at Hogan & Hartson LLP and Dow, Lohnes & Albertson. Mr. Morris received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from George Mason University School of Law.

Rey Ramsey, President & CEO, TechNet – TechNet is the preeminent bipartisan political network of Chief Executive Officers and Senior Executives of leading U.S. technology companies. Our members are the nation’s drivers of innovation in the fields of information technology, e-commerce, clean technology, biotechnology, venture capital and investment banking representing two million employees and $800 billion in revenues. Prior to his role as President and CEO of TechNet, Mr. Ramsey was previously Chief of Executive Officer of One Economy Corporation, a nonprofit organization that leverages the power of technology and information to connect low-income people to the economic mainstream by bringing broadband into their homes, producing public-purpose media, and training and employing youth to enhance communities' technological capacity. He led the organization’s growth from four employees working in basement to a global organization that has taken root on four continents. Since 2000, One Economy has helped bring broadband access into the homes of over 300,000 low-income Americans. More than 17 million people have visited One Economy’s multilingual web properties. Mr. Ramsey has been on the forefront of driving the creation and distribution of public purpose media, most notably through the Public Internet Channel (www.pic.tv), which he founded. Through One Economy programs, hundreds of youth have delivered nearly 50,000 hours of service to their communities. Mr. Ramsey has spent years creating innovative partnerships between nonprofits, government and the private sector. Mr. Ramsey is the author, with Ben Hecht, of the book ManagingNonprofits.org: Dynamic Management for the Digital Age (John Wiley & Sons). Prior to the founding of One Economy, Mr. Ramsey served as president and chief operating officer of the Enterprise Foundation. Before joining Enterprise, Mr. Ramsey served in the cabinets of two governors of Oregon as the state’s director of housing and community services and practiced law. Mr. Ramsey serves on many boards, including the Schnitzer Investment Corporation, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and the Washington Jesuit Academy, where he is vice-chairman. He was also chairman of the NAACP’s Futures Commission and served on the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. He was also the chairman of Habitat for Humanity International from 2003-2005. Mr. Ramsey holds a bachelors degree in political science from Rutgers University and is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School.

R. Gerard Salemme, Executive Vice President for Strategy, Policy, and External Affairs, Clearwire - As executive vice president - strategy, policy and external affairs, Gerard Salemme oversees Clearwire’s spectrum strategy, acquisition and development, public policy agenda and local, state, federal, and international regulatory affairs and advocacy. Prior to assuming his current role at Clearwire, Salemme served as vice president and corporate secretary from November 2003 to April 2004. As the company’s senior policy executive, Salemme brings more than 30 years of telecommunications, government affairs, federal regulatory and public policy expertise to Clearwire. Salemme has held key executive positions at XO Communications, AT&T Corp., McCaw Cellular, and GTE Corporation/Sprint Corporation. At AT&T, Salemme directed the company’s federal regulatory public policy organization, including participation in the FCC’s narrowband and broadband PCS auctions. In addition, Salemme has served as the senior telecommunications policy analyst for the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, as chief of staff to Congressman Ed Markey of Massachusetts, and as a lecturer of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Salem. He is currently a principal of ERH, a vice president of ERI, and a director of and consultant to ICO and ICO North America.

Steve Sharkey, Senior Director, Regulatory & Spectrum Policy, Motorola - Steve Sharkey is Senior Director, Regulatory and Spectrum Policy in Motorola’s Global Government Affairs office in Washington, D.C. He has overall responsibility for Motorola’s global regulatory and advocacy efforts. Efforts are primarily focused on policies related to spectrum management and broadband deployment and use, including working with U.S. regulators, the ITU, and other regional bodies to implement a long-term vision that facilitates a global framework for broadband growth and public safety. He manages a global technical, regulatory and advocacy team that includes expertise in a wide variety of spectrum, technology and trade related issues. Prior to joining Motorola, Mr. Sharkey was the lead technical representative for the Washington, DC office of AirTouch Communications. In this capacity he worked on a number of spectrum and mandate related issues, including CALEA, TTY, and location based initiatives. Prior to AirTouch, Mr. Sharkey served in a variety of roles at the Federal Communications Commission, including in the Office of Engineering and Technology, where one of his responsibilities was as an alternative liaison representative to the IRAC, and as Chief, Satellite Engineering Branch in the International Bureau. Mr. Sharkey has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware.

Roger C. Sherman, Chief Counsel, Communications and Technology Policy, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce - Roger Sherman has been Chief Counsel for Communications and Technology Policy to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce since January 2009. Previously, he worked as Deputy Chief Counsel for the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, frequently dealing with issues of corporate oversight, communications regulation, and technology issues. Mr. Sherman has also served as a legislative assistant to Representative Henry Waxman (1990-1992) and Senator Alan Cranston (1988-1990). Between his stints in government, Mr. Sherman spent ten years as the Director of Regulatory Affairs and Senior Attorney for a wireless telecommunications company, in addition to further work in private practice. He attended Harvard Law School and Amherst College.

Gigi B. Sohn, President and Co-Founder, Public Knowledge - Gigi Sohn presides over this nonprofit organization that addresses the public's stake in the convergence of communications policy and intellectual property law. Public Knowledge seeks to ensure that the nation’s communications system (physical infrastructure, systems, content) promotes fundamental democratic principles and cultural values. Now a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Law, Graduate Studies Program, in 2002 Ms. Sohn was Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, and in 2001 was Adjunct Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. Before co-founding Public Knowledge, Sohn served as a project specialist in the Ford Foundation’s Media, Arts and Culture unit. Prior to that she served as executive director of the Media Access Project, a Washington, D.C.-based public interest telecommunications law firm and in recognition of her work at MAP, President Clinton appointed Ms. Sohn to serve as a member of his Advisory Committee on the Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters in October 1997. That same year American Lawyer magazine selected her as one of the leading public-sector lawyers in the country under the age of 45. She holds a BS in Broadcasting and Film, summa cum laude, from the Boston University College of Communication and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Lawrence J. Spiwak, President, The Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies - Lawrence J. Spiwak is President of the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that studies broad public-policy issues related to governance, social and economic conditions, with a particular emphasis on the law and economics of telecommunications and high-tech industries. Mr. Spiwak is a prolific author whose scholarly work is frequently cited by policymakers, major news media and academic journals around the world, including the Federal Communications Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the United States Department of State, the United States Code Annotated, the Congressional Research Service, American Jurisprudence (2d), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). In January 2007, Mr. Spiwak was selected by the FCC’s Chairman’s Office to participate in a trip to Southeast Asia as part of President Bush’s Digital Freedom Initiative (DFI) to lecture about universal service and rural broadband deployment, and was again selected to participate in the State Department’s West Africa ICT Road Map to Opportunities Conference in Ghana in July 2008. The United States Department of Commerce, Technology Administration, also recently provided support to the Phoenix Center to study the root causes of, and potential policy solutions for, the “Valley of Death” for technology development in the United States. Mr. Spiwak received his B.A. from the George Washington University in 1986 (Special Honors, Middle Eastern Studies) and his J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1989, where he was the international law editor of the Cardozo Moot Court Board and served on the National Moot Court Team. Mr. Spiwak is a member in good standing of the bars of New York, Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. A third generation Washingtonian, he, his wife and their daughter live in North Bethesda, MD.

Thomas J. Sugrue, Vice President, Government Affairs, T-Mobile USA, Inc. - Tom Sugrue is currently Vice President of Government Affairs for T-Mobile USA, Inc. In his current capacity, he manages T-Mobile’s regulatory and legislative activities at both the federal and state levels. Prior to joining T-Mobile, he was Chief of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau for four years. The Wireless Bureau handles all FCC domestic wireless telecommunications programs and policies including the licensing, enforcement, and regulatory functions. Prior to becoming Wireless Bureau Chief in January 1999, Sugrue was a partner in the Washington DC law firm of Halprin, Temple, Goodman & Sugrue, where he specialized in communications law, regulation, and policy. From 1989 to 1995, Sugrue was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Deputy Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). At NTIA, he advised the Assistant Secretary, the Secretary of Commerce, and the White House on communications and information issues, developed Executive Branch policy positions, and implemented regulatory and political strategies to advance those positions. Prior to joining NTIA, Sugrue worked at the FCC as Chief of the Policy Division in the Common Carrier Bureau. While at the FCC, he was responsible for developing and implementing a number of key policy initiatives, including the FCC's open network, interconnection, and unbundling rules; the Commission's "access charge" policies; the promotion of universal service; and the transition to competition in various telecommunications markets. Before joining the FCC, Sugrue was an attorney with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and a law clerk with the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Sugrue holds a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, a Master's degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in physics, magna cum laude, from Boston College.

Ambassador Philip L. Verveer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, U.S. State Department - Philip L. Verveer was confirmed as Ambassador in August, 2009. Ambassador Verveer has practiced communications and antitrust law in the government and in private law firms for more than 35 years. From 1969 to 1981, Ambassador Verveer practiced as a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, as a supervisory attorney in the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission, and as the chief of the Cable Television Bureau, the Broadcast Bureau, and the Common Carrier Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission. Between 1973 and 1977, he served as the Antitrust Division’s first lead counsel in the investigation and prosecution of United States v. American Tel. & Tel. Co., the case that eventuated in the divestiture of the Bell System. As a Bureau Chief at the FCC, Ambassador Verveer participated in a series of decisions that enabled increased competition in video and telephone services and limited regulation of information services. In 1979, Ambassador Verveer became a charter member of the Senior Executive Service and in 1980 received the Distinguished Presidential Rank award. Between 1981 and 2009, Ambassador Verveer engaged in private law practice in Washington, DC. In 1995 and 1996, Ambassador Verveer chaired the Federal Advisory Committee that identified the spectrum requirements necessary to afford public safety organizations efficient and interoperable wireless communications. He has served on the Visiting Committee of the University of Chicago Law School and the Executive Committee of the Alumni Board of Governors of Georgetown University. Ambassador Verveer is a graduate of Georgetown University (1966, BSFS), and the University of Chicago Law School (1969, JD).

Nancy J. Victory, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP - Nancy Victory has extensive experience in communications policy. She advises a broad cross-section of the industry on the business implications of regulatory policy and represents these entities before the FCC, Congress and the Administration. Ms. Victory has particular expertise in wireless and satellite issues, including spectrum allocation, licensing, compliance and policy matters. She has extensive experience in telephony policy matters, particularly where new technology or changing market conditions conflict with historic regulation. She was recently named by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin to chair the FCC Independent Panel Reviewing the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Communications Networks. The panel will make recommendations to the Commission regarding ways to improve disaster preparedness, network reliability and communication among first responders. She also served as chair of the FCC Advisory Committee for the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference. Prior to joining Wiley Rein LLP, Ms. Victory was Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).

Spencer Wang, Managing Director and Head of U.S. Media & Internet Equity Research, Credit Suisse - Spencer Wang joined Credit Suisse in August of 2008 as Managing Director and Head of US Media & Internet Equity Research. In this role, Mr. Wang is the senior analyst covering the Entertainment, Internet, and Cable DBS sectors. He has been named to Institutional Investor's All-America Research Team on multiple occasions for his coverage of the media industry, most recently in 2007 as the #2 and #3 ranked entertainment and cable analyst, respectively. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Wang was a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns in the Equity Research department covering the Entertainment and Cable/DBS sectors. From 2002-2006, Mr. Wang was a Managing Director at JPMorgan following the Entertainment, Cable/DBS, and Radio Broadcasting industries. From 2000-2002, Mr. Wang was the senior entertainment analyst at ABN AMRO and began analyzing media companies at Salomon Smith Barney in 1997 through 2000. Mr. Wang began his career on Wall Street at Merrill Lynch where he worked in Equity Research and Investment Banking. Mr. Wang holds a B.S. in International Trade from Johns Hopkins University.

Richard S. Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel, Google Inc. - Rick is responsible for Google’s strategy and advocacy on all wireline, wireless, and media matters before the Federal Communications Commission, other Federal agencies, and the U.S. Congress. Most recently, he has represented the company’s interests on a variety of broadband policy issues (such as network neutrality), spectrum policy matters (such as the 700 MHz auction and TV white spaces), and “unregulation” of VoIP and other Web-based applications. Prior to joining Google in January 2007, Rick founded and headed NetsEdge Consulting, a public policy consulting firm that provided legal analysis, regulatory strategy, and advocacy counsel to Google and other Web companies. From 1994 to 2006, Rick worked in the legal department at MCI Communications, where he most recently served as Vice President for federal law and policy. Rick previously spent over five years as an associate attorney in the communications practices of two large Washington, D.C. law firms. Rick is a 1988 cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, and a 1984 magna cum laude graduate of James Madison University. He is a resident of Washington, D.C.

Richard E. Wiley, Managing Partner, Wiley Rein LLP - Richard Wiley is managing partner of this Washington, D.C. law firm that has over 250 attorneys and the largest communications practice in the United States. As a former Chairman, Commissioner and General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission (1970-77), he was a leading force in the agency's initial efforts to foster increased competition and lessened regulation in the communications field. Since 1985, Dick Wiley has been regularly recognized as one of the nation's "100 most influential" lawyers by The National Law Journal. He also has been profiled in The New York Times ("Telecommunications' Ubiquitous Man of Influence"), Los Angeles Times ("The Sixth Commissioner"), The International Herald Tribune ("Most Influential Media Lawyer in U.S."), The Globe and Mail ("Father of HDTV"), and The American Lawyer ("Brand Name of Communications Law"). In recognition of his nine-year service as Chairman of the FCC's Advisory Committee on Digital Television, he received an Emmy from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Electronic Industries Association's Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Broadcasters, the DTV Leadership Award from the Digital Television Academy, and the International Achievement Award from the North American Broadcasters Association. He is a member of Broadcasting & Cable magazine's "Hall of Fame", and also was named by that publication as one of the "100 Men of the Century." A native of Illinois, Dick Wiley graduated with distinction from Northwestern (BS and JD degrees) and holds a Masters Degree in Law (LLM) from Georgetown. He has received distinguished alumnus awards from each University as well as an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Catholic University. He has served as president of the Federal Bar and Federal Communications Bar Associations and chair of the American Bar's Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section, the Advisory Board of Columbia University's Institute for Tele-Information, and The Media Institute's Board of Trustees.