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BIOGRAPHIES

IGF-USA

July 18, 2011

Georgetown Law Center

Fiona M. Alexander

Associate Administrator, Office of International Affairs

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Ms. Fiona M. Alexander is the Associate Administrator (Head of Office) for the

Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information

Administration’s (NTIA) Office of International Affairs (OIA). NTIA serves as

the principal policy advisor to the President on communications and information

policy matters as well as the federal radio frequency spectrum manager.

OIA advocates U.S. policy perspectives in a variety of international fora

including, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Organization

for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the International

Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO), the International Mobile

Satellite Organization (IMSO), the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation

Telecommunications Working Group (APEC TEL) and the Internet Corporation

for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Ms. Alexander was NTIA’s lead negotiator for issues related to Internet

Governance in the context of the UN World Summit on the Information Society,

ITU Plenipotentiary, Development and Standardization conferences from 2000 –

2008 and in preparations for the OECD Ministerial on the Future of the Internet

Economy. In her role as Associate Administrator she oversees and manages

NTIA's activities related to the continued transition of the technical coordination

of the Internet's domain name and addressing system (DNS) to the private sector

as well as NTIA’s involvement in international ICT bilateral and multilateral

discussions.

Janna Quitney Anderson

Director of Imagining the Internet

Elon University

Janna Quitney Anderson is director of the Imagining the Internet, a research

center based at Elon University that illuminates people’s visions for the future of

communications in order to provide insights into emerging network innovations,

global development, dynamics, and governance. She is lead author of the "Future

of the Internet" book series and the Pew Internet & American Life Project's

Future of the Internet surveys. Anderson has been a participant in numerous

conferences on the future, including the Metaverse Roadmap Project.

She has led documentary journalism coverage of all of the annual United Nations-

facilitated Internet Governance Forums. She is a member of the organizing

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committees for IGF-USA and the WWW2010 international conference. She is a

co-organizer of the IGF-Sharm el-Sheikh workshop on Transnationalization of

Internet Governance. She teaches futures studies and interactive media courses at

Elon.

Ron Andruff

President & CEO

RNA Partners, Inc.

In 1994, on behalf of the Foreign Policy Association (FPA), Ron Andruff

undertook an eight-month assessment of emerging electronic media and new

technologies that resulted in a widely acclaimed white paper he authored,

distributed by the FPA, that provided a comprehensive analysis of the Internet and

its impending, widespread impact.

In 1998, he made his mark in the travel industry when he co-founded fare 1, Inc.,

a powerful business-to-business Internet portal that enabled travel agents to

quickly search for and provide clients with the lowest available fares on the

Internet so that they could compete with Travelocity, Expedia and other emerging

online travel providers.

More recently, in 2004, as founder and president of Tralliance Corporation, Mr.

Andruff spearheaded the global .TRAVEL initiative from its initial concept

through to launch of the first ―community-based‖ top level domain.

Tens of thousands of .TRAVEL domain names were registered under his

leadership, an initiative that gained supported from more than 140 travel trade

associations in 9 industry sectors, across more than 70 countries.

With more than 30 years of international marketing experience and a decade’s

worth of knowledge of the intricate workings of ICANN and the Internet, Mr.

Andruff is a dedicated contributor to the Business Constituency’s efforts to bring

business’ voice to topics that affect industry on the Internet.

He has served on numerous Working Groups and Teams, most recently as part of

the Vertical Integration Working Group (VI WG) as well as on the Operations

Steering Committee (OSC) dealing with restructuring of the GNSO, and on one of

its sub-committees, the GNSO Council Operating Procedures Work Team

(GCOT). Ron currently serves as a member of the GNSO Standing Committee

on Improvement Implementation (SCI).

A former NGO delegate to the United Nations Association for World Education

and distinguished member of the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC),

Andruff has participated in countless foreign affairs briefings and research

projects. A Canadian national and former professional ice hockey player, Andruff

has also served on the board of directors of the Waterbor Burn & Cancer

Foundation (New York City) and Just A Drop fresh water charity, (London,

England). Traveling more than 100 days per year, Mr. Andruff can be found

speaking at various industry conferences around the world when not attending

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ICANN meetings or related events.

Ronda Ataalla

Imagining the Internet Journalism Team

Elon University

Ronda Ataalla, 19, is a rising junior at Elon University double majoring in both

broadcast journalism and Middle Eastern studies. She is a reporter for

Phoenix14News, recognized as one of the top university broadcast news

operations in the United States in many top competitions. She is an Elon

University multi-cultural ambassador, a tour guide, an office assistant to the

president of the university and the founder and president of Elon's Muslim

Student Association. She is active on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and she

has used WordPress to build her professional online portfolio. Currently she is

interning at NBC affiliate WXII 12 News in Winston Salem, N.C. She is also part

of the documentary journalism team from the Imagining the Internet Center that is

recording the events of IGF-USA 2011.

Santiago Ballen

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Santiago Ballen is a senior finance and management major at Texas A&M

University-Corpus Christi. He received his graduating honors Cum Laude in April

2011, and will receive his bachelor’s diploma in August, 2011.

He was the President of the business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi and the Student

Finance Association at his university during his senior year. He has conducted

research in Corporate Finance as a Finance professor’s Teaching Assistant. Native

from Colombia, he enjoys multiple cultures and is currently a Federal

Government Affairs Intern at TechAmerica.

Richard C. Beaird

Senior Deputy U.S. Coordinator

International Communications and Information Policy

U.S. Department of State

Richard C. Beaird is Senior Deputy United States Coordinator for International

Communications and Information Policy in the Department of State. Mr. Beaird

came to the Department of State in 1988 from the National Telecommunications

and Information Administration (NTIA), Department of Commerce, where he

served as Associate Administrator for International Affairs. Mr. Beaird has

extensive experience in international telecommunication policy matters involving

multilateral and bilateral forums. In his current position, he manages the State

Department's activities across a broad range of international telecommunications

and information policy issues, including those arising in the International

Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Organization for Economic Cooperation

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and Development (OECD) and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).

Mr. Beaird was founder and long-standing Chairman of the Working Group on

Telecommunications within the APEC process, which involves 21 Pacific basin

economies. Mr. Beaird is a former chairman of the OECD's Committee for

Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP). He serves as the

United States' representative to the ITU’s Council, which is the governing body

of the ITU between Plenipotentiaries. Mr. Beaird served the Chairman of the 2002

session of the ITU Council, the first time the U.S. has been elected to that

position.

Don Blumenthal

Senior Policy Advisor

Public Interest Registry

Don Blumenthal is Senior Policy Advisor to the Public Interest Registry,

concentrating on security, abuse, and law enforcement related issues. In that role,

he is a member of the ICANN Domain Security and Stability Analysis Working

Group. He also is an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan School of

Information and Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice, teaching

courses on enterprise security planning, contemporary privacy issues, and

cybercrime and cybersecurity.

Prior to moving to Ann Arbor, Don was at headquarters of the Federal Trade

Commission, where his last assignment was to create and manage the Internet

Lab, the agency’s Internet investigations center. In addition, he provided legal and

technical expertise for security and privacy investigations and policy initiatives.

Prior to the Internet Lab, Don worked in central IT and as a trial attorney. His

career also includes time with another agency, in private practice, and on Capitol

Hill.

Don is a frequent speaker on the topics of information security and privacy. He

also has been a major contributor to American Bar Association privacy, security,

and cybercrime publications, as well as to the ITU Toolkit for Cybercrime

Legislation, the Cloud Security Alliance’s Security Guidance for Critical Areas of

Focus in Cloud Computing, and the 2011 Recommended Security Guidelines for

Airport Planning, Design & Construction prepared for the Transportation

Security Administration.

Don was the recipient of numerous awards at the FTC, including the Award for

Distinguished Service in 2006. He holds a J.D. from the University of

Pennsylvania, and a B.A. from Oberlin College. In his alternate universe, Don

serves as a part-time scout for the Oakland Raiders.

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Iren Borissova

Director, International Public Policy

VeriSign

Iren serves as the Director for International Public Policy at Verisign’s Policy

Office in Washington, DC. She has been part of Verisign’s policy team since

April 2008. Her work focuses on Internet governance issues, cybersecurity,

Internet infrastructure, privacy, RFID and other topics with an international

dimension that are of interest to Verisign. Verisign is the provider of Internet

infrastructure services for the networked world helping companies and consumers

all over the world to engage in communications and commerce. The company

operates the constellation of servers that run the .com and .net domain name

systems.

Prior to being at VeriSign, Iren worked in the Trade Section of the European

Commission Delegation in Washington focusing on international trade policy

matters and at a steel consulting firm focusing on trade and market assessment.

Iren holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and International

Relations from the American University in Bulgaria; a diploma from the

Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, Austria; a Master's degree in Advanced

International Studies from the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, Austria; and a

Master's degree in German and European Studies with special honors in

International Business Diplomacy from Georgetown University's School of

Foreign Service.

impacting the protection of intellectual property. He is also engaged in the

continued development of industry-wide content standards that will enable

consumers to easily access content in the digital age.

Paul Brigner

Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Policy Officer

Motion Picture Association of America

Paul Brigner is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Policy Officer for

the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). As the principal

technologist and technology policy strategist for the MPAA, Brigner helps drive

the Association’s strategy on key technology issues

Brigner most recently served as Executive Director, Internet and Technology

Policy for Verizon where he held several senior management positions for almost

ten years. Prior to his service at Verizon, Brigner held senior positions as chief

software architect and senior consultant for technology companies Digital Focus

and Cambridge Technology Partners. He also developed online systems for

several notable companies in the energy sector.

Brigner holds a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center and is finishing

an MBA at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He is a

graduate summa cum laude of Stephen F. Austin State University where he

received the Outstanding Computer Science Graduate Award and The Wall Street

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Journal Student Achievement Award. Brigner also served in the United States

Army where he attended the U.S. Military Academy Preparatory School and was

appointed to the U.S. Military Academy.

Jeff Brueggeman

Vice President, Public Policy

AT&T

Jeff Brueggeman is Vice President-Public Policy for AT&T. He is responsible for

developing and coordinating AT&T’s public policy positions on Internet,

technology and convergence issues. Jeff and his team also support AT&T’s

business in the operation of its global Internet network, deployment of next-

generation broadband networks and development of converged IP services

Jeff participates in numerous international conferences involving Internet policy

and regulation, including the Internet Governance Forum and ICANN. He also

has been actively engaged in policy panels addressing convergence and

innovation issues, including privacy, broadband deployment and environmental

sustainability. Prior to joining AT&T’s public policy group, Jeff worked as an

attorney in AT&T’s Washington, D.C. office advocating the company’s positions

on broadband and universal service issues before the Federal Communications

Commission. He previously worked as a telecommunications attorney in private

practice.

Jim Bugel

Assistant Vice President- Public Safety and Homeland Security

AT&T

Jim Bugel, Assistant Vice President - Public Safety and Homeland Security for

AT&T, is responsible for Federal policy and strategic planning on public safety,

homeland security, cyber security matters and emergency preparedness.

Jim is currently a member of the 911 Institute Board of Directors, is also serving

on the International Disaster Response Sub-Committee to the U.S. Department of

State’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information

Policy (ACICIP), has been actively involved in the President’s National Security

Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) and the National

Coordinating Center (NCC).

Jim served as Chair of the Joint Advisory Committee on Communications

Capabilities of Emergency, Medical and Public Health Care Facilities. Jim is also

a former member of the NSTAC Industry Executive Subcommittee (IES), a past

co-chair of the NSTAC Emergency Communications and Interoperability Task

Force, and is a former Vice Chair of the Communications Sector Coordinating

(CSCC).

As a leader in the field of public safety and emergency preparedness, Jim plays a

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key role in crafting AT&T public safety policy. Additionally, Jim uses his

knowledge to advise several public private partnerships committed to enhancing

public safety in the United States.

In 2005, during a time of unprecedented crisis in the telecommunications

industry following Hurricane Katrina, Jim was Cingular’s principal representative

to the White House, Department of Defense, Federal Communications

Commission and the Department of Homeland Security/ Federal Emergency

Management Agency on preparedness survivability, restoration and recovery

efforts.

Jim has more than 20 years experience in the wireless and wired

telecommunications industry, including leadership positions in operations, sales,

marketing and finance. He brings to the Federal regulatory environment an

understanding of how public policy influences business decisions.

Jim joined AT&T from Cingular Wireless. Prior to the formation Cingular, Jim

worked for the BellSouth and GTE. He received his Bachelors in Business

Science from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Rex Bullinger

Technical Consultant

The National Cable & Telecommunications Association

Rex Bullinger works for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association

as an on staff technical consultant. Rex assists the Association’s Government

Relations and Legal staffs to address the increasing technical content of

legislation and regulation affecting the cable industry. Prior to that, Rex worked

for Hewlett-Packard company developing RF and microwave spectrum

analyzers. Addressing these analyzers to Cable’s needs is how Rex became

associated with Cable.

In 1998 and 1999 Rex worked for the @Home Network. His Bachelor’s degree

in Physics is from San Diego State University and his Masters in Engineering

Management is from Stanford.

Marilyn Cade

Principal, ICT Strategies

mCADE LLC

Marilyn Cade is an international advisor, providing services in strategy, analysis,

representation and policy development in Internet Governance, Internet policy,

cyber-security, global IP networking services and related policy issues. Cade’s

focus is working at the nexus of technology and global public policy in both US

and global forums in relation to the Internet and its changing role as a critical

communications infrastructure. Today, she both represents and advises multi-

national companies and related organizations regarding Internet/online services

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and Internet Governance policy issues.

She is actively involved in Internet governance and post-WSIS activities,

organizing and representing industry perspectives on Internet Governance,

including the Internet Governance Forum, ICANN, and key political issues

related to the role of governments in the global Internet.

Alessandra Carozza

Emerging Market Analyst

AM Global Consulting

Alessandra Carozza is an Emerging Market Analyst at AMGlobal Consulting, a

specialized Washington DC-based consulting firm that helps companies do more

and better business in Emerging Markets. An experienced project design and

management professional, Carozza has worked extensively in Latin America,

Africa and Europe.

Her background is in health, including work on innovative new health products,

research and policy development, with institutions such as the National Institute

of Health, American Heart Association and the MedStar Clinical Research

Center. Ms. Carozza has significant Public Private Partnership experience,

serving as liaison between governments, international donors, and the Private

Sector including on projects with the US Department of State, the European

Union and the Center for Legal and Social Studies. She speaks and works in

Italian, Spanish and French.

Derrick L. Cogburn

Associate Professor of International Relations

American University

Derrick Cogburn is Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of

International Service at American University. In addition, he is Senior Scientist

and Chief Research Director at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse

University.

His research and teaching includes: global information and communication

technology and socio-economic development; institutional mechanisms for global

governance of ICTs; transnational policy networks and epistemic communities;

and the socio-technical infrastructure for geographically distributed collaboration

in knowledge work.

Dr. Cogburn directs the Center for Research on Collaboratories and Technology

Enhanced Learning Communities (Cotelco), an award-winning social science

research collaboratory investigating the social and technical factors that influence

geographically distributed collaborative knowledge work, particularly between

developed and developing countries. Cotelco is an affiliated center of the Burton

Blatt Institute, Centers of Innovation on Disability. Cogburn is the past president

of the Information Technology and Politics section of APSA, and president of the

International Communication section of the ISA.

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Kellye Coleman

Imagining the Internet Journalism Team

Elon University

Kellye Coleman, 21, is a rising senior at Elon University. She is a reporter for The

Pendulum, Elon University’s award-winning campus newspaper and daily

newsgathering organization. She is a university tour guide, an Elon Leadership

Fellow and a member of the Senior Class Giving Committee, where she serves as

the secretary in charge of committee communications. An avid blogger with an

interest in social media and web development, Coleman is active on Twitter,

Tumblr and Facebook and maintains an online portfolio through Wordpress.

She is also part of the documentary journalism team from the Imagining the

Internet Center that is recording the events of IGF-USA 2011 and will also travel

to Nairobi, Kenya to cover the events of IGF-Global 2011 in September.

Pam Covington

Managing Director of Public Policy, Global Public Policy and Government

Relations

Verisign, Inc.

Pamela Covington is the Managing Director of Public Policy, Global Public

Policy and Government Relations at Verisign, Inc. Verisign, Inc. is the trusted

provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world. Billions of

times each day, Verisign helps companies and consumers all over the world to

connect online with confidence.

Ms. Covington began her Verisign career in May, 2010 in Naming Services

working on Special Programs such as the Internationalized Domain Names

Software Developers’ Consortium (IDN SDC), which she still manages. She is

involved in Child Online Safety issues and represents Verisign at several member

organizations such as Tech America, IGF-USA, ISafe and the Northern Virginia

Technology Council.

Prior to joining Verisign, Ms. Covington was the Director of Committee

Activities and Corporate Relations for the Northern Virginia Technology Council

(NVTC), the largest technology council in the United States representing over

1,100 companies and 280,000 employees in Northern Virginia. She was the

President of the Equal Footing Foundation (formerly the NVTC Foundation)

which provides after school computer access, mentoring and robotics for under-

served youths ages 8-18, by encouraging public-private partnerships to develop

and sustain Computer Clubhouses in Northern Virginia.

Ms. Covington was the CEO/owner of four industrial maintenance companies

specializing in the maintenance of oil refineries, electric power plants and

petrochemical plants in California and Texas, USA. She sold the businesses in

1997.

Ms. Covington has several years experience in federal government. She was the

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Deputy Assistant Secretary of Passport Services, Bureau of Consular Affairs,

Department of State and the Director of Administration for the Office of

Presidential Personnel, The White House.

Ms. Covington graduated with a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from

Southern Methodist University and a B.S. in Political Science from the University

of Southern California. She also studied at the Austro-American Institute of

Education in Vienna, Austria. She has served as a Board of Director on several

civic non-profit organizations.

Pamela Covington may be reached at pcovington@verisign.com.

Marc Crandall, JD, CIPP

Senior Manager of Global Compliance, Enterprise

Google

Marc Crandall serves as Senior Manager of Global Compliance, Enterprise, where

he addresses security and privacy compliance concerns regarding Google’s cloud

business offerings. Mr. Crandall has also served as Product Counsel for Google,

where he addressed legal issues concerning the development and deployment of

Google technology.

He has helped ensure compliance with U.S. and international laws and regulations

dealing with privacy, system security, intellectual property, content regulation,

telecommunications, consumer protection, advertising, and child online

protection.

He has provided guidance to a number of functional teams within Google,

including product managers, engineers, security, policy and government relations

personnel, marketing, and executive management.

He also serves as member of the Advisory Counsel of the non-profit organization

American Registry for Internet Numbers, addressing policy matters associated

with the dissemination of all Internet Protocol addresses for North America.

Dr. Stephen Crocker

CEO AND Co-Founder

Shinkuro, Inc.

Dr. Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., an Internet research and

development company building tools for cooperation and collaboration across the

Internet and government sponsored projects in Internet security. He is co-chair of

the DNSSEC Deployment Working Group, and chair of the ICANN Board of

Directors.

Dr. Crocker has been involved in the Internet since its inception. In the late

1960’s and early 1970’s, while he was a graduate student at UCLA, he was part of

the team that developed the protocols for the Arpanet and laid the foundation for

today’s Internet.

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He organized the Network Working Group, which was the forerunner of the

modern Internet Engineering Task Force, initiated the Request for Comment

(RFC) series of notes through which protocol designs are documented and shared,

and laid the foundation for the open architectural structure of the Internet

Protocols. For this work, Dr. Crocker was awarded the 2002 IEEE Internet

Award. He remained active in the Internet standards work through the IETF and

IAB and served as the first security area director on the Internet Engineering

Steering Group from 1989 to 1994.

Dr. Crocker experience includes research management at DARPA, USC/ISI and

The Aerospace Corporation, vice president of Trusted Information Systems, and

co-founder of CyberCash, Inc. and Longitude Systems, Inc.

Dr. Crocker earned his BA in math and PhD in computer science at UCLA, and

studied artificial intelligence at MIT. He has an honorary doctorate in

mathematics from the University of San Martin des Porres in Lima, Perú.

John Curran

President and CEO

American Registry for Internet Numbers

John Curran is the President and CEO of the American

Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for leading

the organization in its mission of managing the distribution

of Internet number resources in its geographic region. He

was also a founder of ARIN and served as its Chairman from

inception through early 2009.

John’s experience in the Internet industry includes serving

as CTO and COO for ServerVault, which provides highly

secure, fully managed infrastructure solutions for sensitive

federal government and commercial applications.

Prior to this, he was CTO for XO Communications, and was integral

in leading the organization’s technical initiatives, network

architecture, and design of leading-edge capabilities built

into the company’s nationwide network.

Mr. Curran also served as CTO for BBN/GTE Internetworking, where he was

responsible for the organization’s strategic technology

direction. He led BBN’s technical evolution from one of the

earliest Internet Service Providers through its growth and

eventual acquisition by GTE.

He has also been an active participant in the Internet

Engineering Task Force (IETF), having both co-chaired the

IETF Operations and Network Management Area and served

as a member of the IPng (IPv6) Directorate.

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Steve DelBianco

Executive Director

NetChoice

As the executive director of NetChoice, Steve DelBianco is a well-known expert

on Internet governance, online consumer protection, and Internet taxation. Steve

has provided expert testimony in eight Congressional hearings, and is a frequent

witness in state legislatures. Moreover, Steve is an effective advocate for business

interests at meetings of the Internet Governance Forum and at ICANN, where he

serves as vice chair for policy coordination.

Steve is often quoted on technology issues in the media, including a segment on

"60 Minutes" to expose barriers to e-commerce in residential real estate. Before

joining NetChoice, Steve was founder and president of Financial Dynamics, an

information technology consulting firm delivering on financial and marketing

solutions. He guided the firm through the rapid evolution of industry trends and

sold the business to a national firm in 1997.

Steve holds degrees in Engineering and Economics from the University of

Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Colin Donohue

Coordinator of Student Media

Instructor in Communications

Elon University

Colin Donohue is the coordinator of student media and an instructor in Elon

University’s School of Communications. He has six years of experience as a

sports reporter at the Burlington (N.C.) Times-News and the Memphis

Commercial Appeal, the largest paper in the Mid-South.

He serves as adviser to The Pendulum, Elon’s weekly student newspaper and

national Pacemaker award winner (2009).

He is also a book reviewer for the Newspaper Research Journal and an editorial

board member for Media History Monographs. He’s an active member of College

Media Advisers (non-daily newspaper division) and the North Carolina College

Media Association.

He came to Elon in 2007, and he teaches Media Writing. He earned his B.A. In

Journalism from Elon University in 2005 and his M.A. In Journalism from the

University of Memphis in 2007.

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Thomas R. Donnelly, Jr

Public Policy Advisor

Akerman Senterfitt

Thomas R. Donnelly, Jr. has more than 25 years of professional experience

representing clients in Washington, D.C., before Congress and departments in the

Executive branch. He began his service in Washington as Executive Vice

Presidentof the National Center for Voluntary Action, the volunteerism effort of

the Nixon Administration. This followed a three-year term as Executive Vice

President of the United States Jaycees at their national headquarters in Tulsa,

Oklahoma.

Thomas also served as Assistant Secretary for Legislation at the Department of

Health and Human Services (HHS) in the early Reagan Administration. While

there, he provided leadership in the passage of legislation establishing the

prospective payment system in Medicare as well as reform of the Social Security

system to avoid it's projected bankruptcy. Following his service at HHS, Thomas

transferred to the White House serving President Reagan as a Special Assistant

for Legislative Affairs and carrying the portfolios of health, environment, labor,

and immigration.

Dmitry Epstein

Cornell University

Dmitry Epstein is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at

Cornell University. His research focuses on the interaction between media,

information, and communication technologies and society.

Particularly, he is studying the Internet Governance process, digital inequalities,

and politics of communication platforms. He holds a BA in Economics from Tel-

Aviv University and an MA in Comparative Media Studies from Ben-Gurion

University. In addition, Dmitry has worked as a Research Assistant at the

Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and a research

fellow at the Information + Innovation Policy Research Centre, Lee Kuan Yew

School of Public Policy. He has also graduated from the Internet Governance

Capacity Training of the Diplo Foundation.

To his academic activity, Dmitry brings a record of work in the venture capital

and consulting industries, as well as a record of social activism and leadership. He

is a relatively active blogger and a participant in the academic community of

researchers of new media and society as well as in the community of practitioners

who focus on youth entrepreneurship and ICT for development.

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Sarah Falvey

Senior Policy Analyst

Google

Sarah serves as a Senior Policy Analyst in Google’s Washington, D.C. office

managing a portfolio of issues related to cybersecurity, cloud computing, and

Internet governance and international organizations. Prior to working at Google,

Sarah served as an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton supporting the Department

of Defense and Department of Homeland Security on issues related to Internet

governance, cybersecurity and DNS security, and cyber risk management.

Sarah has a dual Masters degree in International Relations and Public

Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and received a

BA in International Relations and German at Hamilton College.

Frederick Felman

MarkMonitor

Frederick Felman’s career in marketing enterprise and security technology and

services spans 25 years. At MarkMonitor, he is responsible for defining and

promoting the company’s brand protection product offerings. He and his team

created the Brandjacking Index®, an often-cited measure of the trends in online

abuse targeting the world’s largest brands.

As part of the MarkMonitor commitment to securing brands online, Frederick

leads advocacy initiatives for brandholders’ rights issues that intersect Internet

governance. Before joining MarkMonitor, Frederick was Vice President of

Products and Marketing at Zone Labs, which was acquired by Check Point

Technologies He received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

from the University of Southern California.

Corbin Robert Fields

Deployment Coordinator

Spark Relief.org

Corbin is the Coordinator for Deployment and Governmental affairs for

Sparkrelief.org overseeing the government relations in North America. Corbin is

also the CEO/Founder of a Colorado company called Clarity Software Solutions,

Inc. which creates ERP systems for small businesses.

Bobby Flaim

Special Agent

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Bobby Flaim has been a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation for

over fourteen years. Currently, SSA Flaim is assigned to the Technical Liaison

Unit of the Operational Technology Division in Quantico, Virginia. Since 2004,

Mr. Flaim has worked on cooperative efforts with the Internet Corporation of

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Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Regional Internet Registries, i.e.,

ARIN, RIPE NCC to foster Internet policies and practices that ensure effective

international law enforcement investigations. Prior to his current position, SSA

Flaim worked at the FBI Washington Field Office on cyber and counterterrorism

investigations for five years.

Liesyl Franz

Vice President, Cybersecurity and Global Public Policy

Liesyl Franz is Vice President for Cybersecurity and Global Public Policy at

TechAmerica, working with industry and government leaders on such issues as

cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection and Internet Governance. In this

role she leads TechAmerica’s strategic and tactical efforts on public policy in

these areas with the Administration, Congress, and international organizations. In

addition, she represents TechAmerica in the Information Technology Sector

Coordinating Council (IT SCC) under the National Infrastructure Protection Plan

(NIPP), where she currently serves on the Executive Committee and as vice chair

of the International Committee.

Liesyl joined TechAmerica (previously ITAA) from the Department of Homeland

Security, where she served as deputy director for outreach and awareness and

director for international affairs and public policy at the National Cyber Security

Division (NCSD). She led programs in the areas of global affairs, public policy,

communications and messaging as well as stakeholder outreach, including

building international partnerships, coordinating public relations for key events

such as the Cyber Storm National Cyber Exercise and conferences, and managing

events for National Cyber Security Awareness Month held annually in October.

Prior to her service at DHS, Liesyl was director for global government affairs at

EDS Corporation working on cybersecurity, privacy, financial services, and trade

issues, and she worked with the Coalition of Service Industries where she

managed industry’s participation and input into services trade negotiations in the

World Trade Organization (WTO).

Liesyl was recognized in 2005 by the Women's High Tech Coalition with the

Women in Cyber Security Award for her contribution to public-private

partnerships and international collaboration in cyber security. She holds a BA in

Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin and an MA from the

Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.

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Brandon Fuller

Intern for AT&T Innovation Center

Brandon currently attends Clemson University, where he expects to receive his

B.S. in Computer Science in the Spring of 2012.

Brandon is currently attending Georgetown University’s TFAS program and is in

the IBGA course. He got in this course through a scholarship, the William Pope

Eagle Scout Scholarship, that was awarded to 9 others that year who had also

obtained the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.

He has a strong interest in programming, especially video game design, and the

research behind parallel computing.

He actively practices martial arts and is the president of his college’s Hapkido

Club. Brandon is planning to exercise his education in computers in either video

game design, specifically the emergent MMO market, or to dedicate himself to

research in furthering the field of Computer Science.

Dr. James Galvin

Director, Strategic Relationships and Technical Standards

Afilias

Dr. James Galvin is Afilias’ Director of Strategic Relationships and Technical

Standards. For over 30 years, Jim has been an active member of the IT, computer

science and Internet communities.

He currently supports and manages Afilias’ relationships within these same

societies and communities that direct the founding technical standards and

policies upon which Internet applications and services are developed.

In addition, he is involved in improving Afilias’ technical leadership in areas such

as DNSSEC for which he gained extensive experience while chairing the IETF

Working Group on DNS Security for 8 years.

Jim currently serves as the Vice-Chair of ICANN’s Security and Stability

Advisory Committee.

Jim has many years of technical consulting experience including infrastructure

design and analysis, project management, risk management, and archival

documentation at organizations including IETF, ICANN, PIR, Afilias, Navy

Research Labs, Sun Microsystems, Drummond Group, and U.S. Treasury

Inspector General for Tax Administration.

He has also held positions at CommerceNet, Trusted Information Systems and is

the Founder and Principal at eList eXpress an email list management service

provider.

Jim has a Bachelor of Science degree from Moravian College with a double major

in Computer Science and Mathematics. He holds a Masters in Computer Science

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and Information Systems from The University of Delaware where he also earned

his Doctorate with a dissertation entitled, ―Distributed Cryptographic Key

Management System.‖

Scott Gillespie

Wake Forest University ‘12

Tech America Intern

Scott Gillespie is a rising senior at Wake Forest University where he is pursuing a

double major in Economics and Political Science. He interns with TechAmerica

in their Washington office and is taking summer classes at Georgetown

University.

Scott is originally from Needham, MA and grew up an avid fan of the Boston

sports teams, particularly the Stanley Cup winning Boston Bruins. At Wake

Forest Scott works for Dr. David Coates who recently published the book

"Making the Progressive Case - Toward a Stronger U.S. Economy". On campus

he is also an active member of Sigma Phi Epsilon and the Roosevelt Institute.

Robert Guerra

Project Director, Internet Freedom

Freedom House

Robert Guerra directs the Internet Freedom project at Freedom House

(www.freedomhouse.org). The project aims to analyze the state of internet

freedom to expand the use of anti-censorship technologies, to build support

networks for citizens fighting against online repression and to focus greater

international attention on the growing threats to users’ rights.

Guerra has worked with nongovernmental organizations to assist them with issues

of data privacy, secure communications, information security, internet governance

and internet freedom for over a decade.

Robert was actively involved in all phases of the UN World Summit on the

Information Society (WSIS) - being an active member of civil society bureau, the

internet governance caucus as well as being the NGO advisor to the official

Canadian Government delegation.

Robert is often invited to speak at events to share the challenges being faced by

social justice organizations in regards to surveillance, censorship and privacy. He

advises numerous non-profits, foundations and international organizations.

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Ali Hamed

Cornell University

Ali Hamed is a Cornell Class of 2014 Communications and Information

Technology major. He is the founder of YourEasyNews.com and in the summer

of 2011 co-founded the new tech start-up, Memsparx inc.

He has been an R.A. in both media studies and Internet Governance and currently

lives in Brooklyn, New York. He plays on the Cornell University Baseball Team,

has written for the Cornell Daily Sun, was a Communications Associate and

Senior Editor of Global Affairs Mag., and is a part of Cornell’s club, SAAC.

Vance P. Hedderel

Director, Public Relations

Vance Hedderel is Director of Public Relations at Afilias.

He brings more than a dozen years of experience in technology

sector communications to Afilias and its mobile technology

subsidiary, dotMobi.

Previous to Afilias, Hedderel served as Director of Corporate

Communications at XO Communications, the largest Competitive

Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) in the United States, and its Web

hosting / Internet sub-brand, Concentric. He was also responsible

for global communications at Primus Telecommunications and,

prior, at MCI / WorldCom (now Verizon Business Services), where was a lead

member of the team responsible for communications on the $37 billion MCI /

WorldCom merger.

Prior to the technology sector, Hedderel was Chief Marketing Communications

Officer of the Pentagon Federal Credit Union, where he directed all aspects of $15

billion company's communications initiatives, including an award-winning

corporate website.

He has also been an instructor of composition and literature at George Mason

University.

Hedderel has an MFA in writing from George Mason University (Virginia) and a

BA in English from the University of New Orleans.

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Pat Kane

Senior Vice President for Naming Services

Verisign, Inc.

Pat Kane is the Senior Vice President for Naming Services at Verisign, Inc.,

where he is responsible for the domestic and international business units

supporting .com, .net, .tv, .cc registries and other related naming and directory

services.

Mr. Kane has been with VeriSign since the acquisition of Network Solutions in

2000 where he has been instrumental in the development and deployment of

directory services, Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and IDN TLDs at

Verisign.

Prior to VeriSign, he served in many capacities with American Management

Systems (AMS) and Electronic Data Systems (EDS) where he began his career as

a Systems Engineer. Mr. Kane holds a Bachelor of Science in Architectural

Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Brenden Kuerbis

Operations Director

Internet Governance Project

Brenden Kuerbis works as Operations Director for the Internet Governance

Project (IGP), an interdisciplinary alliance of academics that puts expertise into

practical action in the fields of global governance and Internet policy.

A regular contributor to and co-editor of the widely read IGP Blog, he is

completing his doctoral studies at Syracuse University's School of Information

Studies, where he does research on the political economy of Internet infrastructure

security standards. Brenden was recently elected as the North American

representative to the Executive Committee of the Noncommercial Users

Constituency within ICANN, and has participated in the WSIS and IGF

processes.

Janice R. Lachance

Chief Executive Officer

Special Libraries Association

Janice Lachance, Chief Executive Officer of SLA (Special Libraries Association)

since 2003, leads the global association representing the interests of 11,000

information professionals and their strategic partners in 75 countries. In that

position, she has led the reformulation of SLA’s mission, vision and strategic

plan, created the online Click University, and expanded SLA’s public policy

program. She currently leads a multiyear comprehensive research effort to create

a shared and evidence-based vision of the future role of the information

professional. She serves on the board of the American Society of Association

Executives and The Center for Association Leadership and as a Fellow and as

Member of the Board of Directors and Executive

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Andrew Mack

Principal

AMGlobal Consulting

Andrew Mack is Principal of AMGlobal Consulting, a specialized Washington,

DC-based consulting firm that helps companies do more and better business in

Emerging Markets. A former World Bank project manager and finance

professional with experience in more than 80 countries, Mack is internationally-

recognized for his work on emerging markets and international development

issues – with a special focus on Internet policy and its impacts on the spread of

technology to Africa, Latin America and other underserved regions.

Mack was a panelist at the 2010 ICANN Brussels meeting and has for over a year

been a member of ICANN’s Joint Applicant Support (JAS) Working Group,

which is designing policy recommendations to help needy communities and

underserved script users participate in the new gTLD process. In that context, he

is well known for his writing and speaking on the importance of IDNs to the

online future of the ―next billion‖ Internet users, and the opportunities presented

by the new gTLD process – especially for smaller script users – in cultural

preservation and the generation of economic opportunity.

Mr. Mack holds a Bachelor of Arts Magna Cum Laude from Amherst College and

a Masters in International Relations/International Economics from the Johns

Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He speaks and works in

Spanish, French and Portuguese.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Center for Information Technology Policy Visiting Fellow

Princeton University

Rebecca MacKinnon is a 2009 Open Society Institute fellow, working on a book

about China and the global Internet.

She is cofounder of Global Voices (Globalvoicesonline.org), a global citizen

media network, and an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong's

Journalism and Media Studies Centre, where she teaches online journalism and

conducts research on the Internet, China, and censorship.

Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, she was previously CNN's Beijing bureau chief in

Beijing and in Tokyo. She is a founding member of the Global Network Initiative,

an initiative to advance freedom of expression and privacy in the Internet and

telecoms sectors. She was also public lead in 2007 and 2008 for Creative

Commons Hong Kong.

She has previously been a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics

and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and at Harvard's

Berkman Center for Internet and Society. For more information about MacKinnon

and her work see her blog at Rconversation.blogs.com.

Leslie Joseph Martinkovics

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Director

International Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs

Verizon Communications Inc.

Leslie Martinkovics is Director of International Public Policy and Regulatory

Affairs for Verizon Communications. He is the company’s primary point of

contact to multilateral organizations such as the International

Telecommunications Union (ITU), where he is one of the Vice Chairs of Study

Group 3 on international charging and tariffing issues, as well as a representative

at the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL). Leslie is the

current chairman of the U.S. ITU Association (USITUA) and a Vice Chairman of

the United States Council for International Business (USCIB) ICT Policy

Committee.

Leslie has extensive experience in international telecommunication, IP and radio

frequency spectrum policy and regulatory matters, involving advanced fiber and

wireless (LTE) networks. He has led his company’s efforts at key conferences

and summits, such as the ITU Plenipotentiary and Council meetings, the World

Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the Internet Governance Forum

(IGF). He has written extensively on Internet governance, convergence and

innovation issues, as well as standards development for global networks.

Garland McCoy

Founder & President

Technology Education Institute

Garland McCoy has devoted the past twenty years of his career to advancing the

utilization and deployment of technology through non-governmental

organizations. Mr. McCoy founded the Technology Education Institute in 2011

to create and host educational field trips for Congressional members and their

staff and educate executives on technology issues of importance to U.S. business

interests. Previously, as Founder and Chief Development Officer of the

Technology Policy Institute (TPI), he was responsible for raising a multimillion

dollar budget and developing and executing projects at both the state, national,

and international levels. Mr. McCoy re-established the annual Aspen Summits

(renamed Aspen Forum) at TPI that he previously supported as Senior Vice

President of Development at the Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF) for

thirteen years. Prior to PFF, he served as Vice President of Development for the

American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and raised tens of millions of

dollars to support State legislative chapters in all 50 states and launched ALEC’s

Education Report Card and Crime Report Card campaigns nationwide.

Earlier in his career, Mr. McCoy served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of

Education William Bennett where he implemented the ―Troops to Teachers‖

Second Careers in Education Program for Transitioning Active Duty Personnel

and successfully implemented emergency teacher certification legislation in over

20 states. Prior to that, he was Founder and Senior Consultant of the Non-

Commissioned Officer’s Association’s National Defense Foundation and

executed the Active Duty and Overseas voter registration GO-TV programs. Mr.

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McCoy has also served as Director, Military/Veterans Liaison to the Republican

National Committee and was Legislative Assistant to Congressman Jim Jeffries.

He also was Staff Assistant to the Secretary of the Army and Director of

Correspondence at The White House.

Mr. McCoy received his BA in English literature from Randolph-Macon College

and completed MBA requirements (39 hours) at Virginia Commonwealth

University.

Danny McPherson

Chief Security Officer

Verisign, Inc.

Danny McPherson is Chief Security Officer for VeriSign and currently serves on

the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory

Council and several other industry forums. He has been active within the Internet

operations, security, research and standards communities for nearly 20 years, and

has authored a number of books and other publications related to these topics.

Previously, he was CSO of Arbor Networks, and prior to that held technical

leadership positions with Amber Networks, Qwest Communications, Genuity,

internetMCI and the US Army Signal Corp.

Pablo G. Molina

Campus CIO and AVP

Georgetown University Law Center

A native of Madrid, Spain, Pablo G. Molina is Associate Vice President for

Information Technologies since 2007 and campus CIO since 2000 at Georgetown

University. He teaches graduate courses on Ethics and Technology Management

and Managing Information Security. He worked as director of information

technology for the University of Pennsylvania Law School, lecturer/director of

information systems for Washington University in Saint Louis School of Law,

and senior lecturer for the University of Missouri in Saint Louis Business School.

Before his career in academia, he was MIS manager at the Saint Louis Zoo. Prior

to that, he created and managed a technology company in Madrid, where he also

served as Editor in Chief of computer magazines, authored several books on

technology, and taught information technology at the Escuela de Hacienda

Pública.

Pablo has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Saint Louis University, has done

graduate coursework at the University of Pennsylvania and Washington

University in Saint Louis, and is pursuing a Doctorate degree at Georgetown

University. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, a Certified Novell

Engineer, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, and a Certified

Information Privacy Professional.

Pablo serves on the boards of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the

Hispanic Technology Council. He collaborates on national higher education

committees like the Facilities Committee of the ABA’s Legal Education and

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Admissions to the Bar Section, the Planning Committee for the Annual Workshop

of the American Association of Law Schools, and the EDUCAUSE's Professional

Development Committee. In 2001, Pablo Molina founded the Law CIO Group, a

group of information officers from the top law schools in the United States and

the United Kingdom. Pablo was the recipient of the 2001 Excellence in Service

CALI Award, the 2006 CIO Magazine Ones to Watch Award and the Standout

Achievement Award as Innovator. He was recognized in 2007 as one of the Top

40 Under 40 IT Innovators by ComputerWorld. He was nominated for the Mid-

Atlantic Information Security Executive of the Year and the National Information

Security Executive of the Year awards in 2007. In 2008, his profile was published

in Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology's Tech Leaders You Need to

Know and he was recognized as one of the top 100 technology executives by the

Hispanic Technology Council. He was featured in Madrilenos por el Mundo on

Telemadrid in November of 2008.

Pablo regularly serves as a consultant on organizational and technology policy

issues for some of the most prestigious academic institutions.

John B. Morris, Jr.

General Counsel at the Center for Democracy &Technology

John B. Morris, Jr. is General Counsel at the Center for Democracy &

Technology, and is the Director of its "Internet Standards, Technology and Policy

Project." Prior to joining CDT in 2001, Mr. Morris was a partner in the law firm

of Jenner & Block. At both CDT and Jenner, Mr. Morris has litigated

groundbreaking cases in Internet and First Amendment law. He received his B.A.

magna cum laude with distinction from Yale University and his J.D.

from Yale Law School, where he was the Managing Editor of the Yale Law

Journal. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Morris had significant experience in the

computer industry. Mr. Morris has been actively involved in the intersection of

policy and technology, working on a range of privacy and free speech issues in

both technical standards bodies and the more traditional policy making

sphere. He has spoken extensively on cloud-related issues.

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Milton Mueller

Professor

Syracuse University School of Information Studies

Milton Mueller is Professor at Syracuse University School of Information Studies,

USA, and also XS4All Professor at the Delft University of Technology, the

Netherlands, an endowed Chair devoted to ―the security and privacy of Internet

users.‖ Mueller received the Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989.

He was one of the founders of the Internet Governance Project, an alliance of

scholars in action around global Internet policy issues. Dr. Mueller’s research

focuses on property rights, institutions and global governance in communication

and information industries. His book Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and

the Taming of Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2002) was the first book-length analysis of

the political and economic forces leading to the creation of ICANN. His new book

about Internet governance in the post-World Summit on the Information Society

environment, Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance,

will come out in Spring 2010. He is doing research on the policy implications of

Deep Packet Inspection technology and the security governance practices of ISPs.

Mueller has played a leading role in organizing and mobilizing civil society in

ICANN. He was a founder of the Noncommercial Users Constituency and has

served as its chair for several years. He was elected to ICANN’s GNSO Council

and has worked on various task forces related to new TLDs, Whois/privacy, and

the .org reassignment. Mueller is on the Advisory Council of Public Interest

Registry (.org).

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Michael R. Nelson Visiting Professor, Internet Studies

Communication, Culture and Technology Program

Georgetown University

&

Research Associate

CSC Leading Edge Forum Dr Michael Nelson is a Research Associate for the CSC Leading Edge

Forum. Michael is also currently Visiting Professor of Internet Studies in

Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, and Technology (CCT)

Program, a unique, trans-disciplinary masters program for students and

researchers interested in how information technology is shaping society and vice

versa. Since January 2008, he has been conducting research and teaching courses

on The Future of the Internet, innovation, technology forecasting, and e-

government, as well as consulting and speaking on Internet technology and

policy.

Before joining the Georgetown faculty, Michael spent almost ten years as

Director of Internet Technology and Strategy at IBM, where he managed a team

helping define and implement IBM's Next Generation Internet strategy. Prior to

that, Michael was Director for Technology Policy at the FCC, where he helped

craft policies to spur the growth of the Internet. Before joining the FCC in

January 1997, Michael was Special Assistant for Information Technology at the

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he worked with

Vice President Al Gore on telecommunications policy, encryption and online

privacy, electronic commerce, and information policy.

Michael has a PhD from MIT and a BS from Caltech.

Jonathon Nevett

President

Domain Dimensions, LLC

Jonathon Nevett currently serves as Co-Founder and EVP of Donuts Inc., a

company participating in the upcoming New TLD program, and as President of

Domain Dimensions, LLC, consulting on various domain name issues.

Previously, Jon served as Senior Vice President at Network Solutions. He was

Network Solutions’ primary point of contact with ICANN, the U.S. Congress, the

Department of Commerce, other federal agencies, as well as domain name

registries. He also served as Chairman of the Board of NameJet — Network

Solutions’ joint venture to provide domain auction and listing services in the

secondary market — and Central Registry Solutions — Network Solutions’ joint

venture to provide registry services related to the introduction of New TLDs.

Jon has served on the ICANN Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT), as

well as the Special Trademark Issue team (STI), advising ICANN on how best to

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protect trademarks with New Top Level Domains. From 2006-09, Jon served as

the elected Chair of the ICANN Registrar Constituency and co-chaired the U.S.

Council for International Business’ Domain Name System Working Group. In

2009, Jon was appointed to the NTIA’s Online Safety and Technology Working

Group related to issues of child safety and the Web.

Prior to joining Network Solutions, Jon spent nearly eight years with the MCI

Legal Department and almost four years at the law firm of Kirkland and

Ellis. Jon received his Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School and his

undergraduate degree from Binghamton University.

Greg Nojeim

Senior Counsel and Director of CDT's Project on Freedom, Security and

Technology

Center for Democracy and Technology

Gregory T. Nojeim is a Senior Counsel at the Center for Democracy &

Technology and the Director of its Project on Freedom, Security & Technology.

CDT is a Washington-based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting

democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. In this capacity,

Mr. Nojeim conducts much of CDT's work in the areas of national security,

terrorism, and Fourth Amendment protections. Nojeim is also Co-Chair of the

Coordinating Committee on National Security and Civil Liberties of the

Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section of the American Bar Association.

Nojeim works to limit the threat to privacy posed by governmental wiretapping

and monitoring of Internet communications. He was instrumental in bringing

together the broad coalition of groups from across the political spectrum that

worked to strip overly intrusive wiretapping proposals from the 1996 anti-

terrorism law. He has substantial expertise on the application of the Foreign

Intelligence Surveillance Act and on the civil liberties protections it affords. Other

areas of his expertise include governmental data mining, the PATRIOT Act, the

state secrets privilege, and the privacy implications of aviation security measures.

Prior to joining CDT in May 2007, Mr. Nojeim was for five years a Legislative

Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union and for seven years the Associate

Director and Chief Legislative Counsel of the ACLU's Washington Legislative

Office. There, he was responsible for analyzing the civil liberties implications of

federal legislation relating to terrorism, national security, immigration and

informational privacy. He frequently testified before congressional committees

and the various commissions Congress establishes on anti-terrorism legislation

and aviation security legislation. Nojeim testified before Congress about counter-

terrorism proposals following the September 11 attacks and the Oklahoma City

bombing, the use of secret evidence in immigration proceedings, drivers license

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privacy, aviation security profiling and intrusive body-scan technologies and the

threat to civil liberties posed by national ID cards.

William O’Connor

Georgetown University Student

William O'Connor will be graduating in 2012 from Georgetown University with a

degree in American Studies.

In addition to his studies, William has worked in both media and politics, for

TheDailyBeast.com, NPR, the United States Senate, and on a congressional

campaign. This summer he is interning for ABC This Week with Christiane

Amanpour where he pitches stories and guests, researches for scripts, and hosts

the post-show Green Room online. When he isn't in DC working or attending

school, Will lives in Newport, RI.

Kelly O’Keefe

Director, Washington Office

Access Partnership, LLC

Kelly O’Keefe heads Access Partnership’s North American office in Washington,

DC. Kelly provides strategic regulatory, policy and licensing support to

commercial and government clients as they seek to deploy

telecommunications/ICT services in foreign markets. She has experience

representing client interests at international fora including the International

Telecommunication Union (ITU), Organization of American States (OAS),

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and International Maritime

Organization (IMO). She currently serves as Rapportuer for an ITU Development

Sector (ITU-D) study group on emergency communications and participates on

the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on International Communications

and Information Policy (ACICIP) Disaster Response Sub-committee. Kelly also

serves as a member of the Board and Treasurer of the US ITU Association.

Kelly joined Access Partnership from the U.S. Telecommunications Training

Institute (USTTI), where she worked with US government and industry leaders in

the telecommunications industry to provide technical and policy training for

developing country professionals. Kelly holds a Bachelors of Science in Foreign

Service degree from Georgetown University.

Daniel J. O'Neill

Executive Director

Global Information Infrastructure Commission

Daniel J. O'Neill is the executive director of the Global Information Infrastructure

Commission (GIIC). He advises the GIIC Chairman and the Executive

Committee and provides GIIC Secretariat support services for GIIC members,

programs, and events. More than 30 ICT leaders -- CEOs and presidents of major

international corporations, policymakers and academics from around the world --

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are members of the GIIC.

The Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC) is an independent,

non-governmental initiative for information and communication technology

industry leaders from developed as well as developing countries. The mission of

the GIIC is to foster private sector leadership and private-public sector

cooperation in the development of information networks and services to advance

global economic growth, education and quality of life.

In addition to the GIIC, Mr. O’Neill is the Principal of WBC Global, a

Washington D.C. consulting firm providing strategic government relations advice

to multinational corporations on international trade and investment matters. In

this role, Mr. O’Neill regularly works with corporate executives and management

teams to address trade and investment problems in foreign markets. Through an

understanding of market access issues and regulatory burdens clients encounter,

he has worked successfully with the U.S. Government to design and develop

negotiating positions to address these problems and achieve success for clients.

In representing the international trade interests for clients, Mr. O’Neill has

engaged in advocating for business interests in nearly all of the recent trade

negotiations of the U.S. Government. He has worked on the World Trade

Organization (WTO) negotiations; the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation

(APEC) forum; the Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue (TABD); the Free Trade

Area of the Americas (FTAA) and numerous bilateral negotiations (Chile;

Singapore; Australia; Jordan; and others).

George Ou

Digital Society

George Ou used to work as a network engineer who built and designed wired

network, wireless network, Internet, storage, security, and server infrastructure for

various fortune 100 companies. He is a Certified Information Systems Security

Professional (CISSP #109250). He was the Technical Director and Editor at

Large at ZDNet.com and wrote one of their most popular blogs ―Real World IT.‖

In 2008, he became a Senior Analyst at ITIF.org and then helped create Digital

Society.

Audrey Plonk

Global Security and Internet Policy Specialist

Intel Corporation

Global Security and Internet Policy Specialist, leads Intel Corporation’s global

policy efforts on security policy topics such as cybersecurity, critical

infrastructure protection and encryption. As a member of Intel’s Security and

Privacy Policy team, Audrey also focuses on Internet policy issues. Previously, at

the OECD Secretariat in Paris Audrey authored a report on malicious software,

and co-authored a series of comparative policy analyses about critical information

infrastructure protection including a recommendation to the OECD Council. Prior

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to that, Audrey worked as a consultant for the Department of Homeland

Security’s National Cyber Security Division in the international affairs division.

Audrey attended George Washington University and received her BA in

International Affairs and minors in French and Dance. She is fluent in French.

Tim Prey

Wake Forest University

Tim is a rising senior majoring in business and enterprise management with a

concentration in international business and a minor in global trade and commerce

studies. He spent the fall of his junior year living in Barcelona, Spain taking

business and Spanish courses. At Wake Forest, Tim is the treasurer of the Kappa

Alpha Order’s Tau chapter, a member of the men’s club golf team, and has served

on the Honor and Ethics Council. This summer he is working for TechAmerica

as a federal government affairs intern.

Morgan Prewitt

Intern

AT&T

Morgan Prewitt is a senior at Howard University, located in NW Washington,

D.C, in which she is a Marketing major, Classical Piano minor, originally from

Cleveland, Ohio. Currently, she is an Intern with AT&T IT Services.

While attending Howard, Prewitt has planned many events through Howard's

Homecoming, Residence Life, Student Government and many other

organizations. She hopes to one day make a career out of this craft. She holds

many leadership positions on campus such as a Resident Assistant as well as a

Student Ambassador for the University. She is a part of Big Brothers Big Sisters

as well as the Cleveland based mentoring organization Diamonds in the Rough.

Morgan hopes to attend Graduate school at Georgetown University or the

University of Chicago in which she will get her Masters in Business

Administration. From then on, she has goals to excel in the Marketing/Event

Planning field using the skills she has developed throughout her educational

experience.

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Lee Rainie

Director

Pew Research Center

Internet & American Life Project

Lee Rainie is the Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life

Project, a non-profit, non–partisan ―fact tank‖ that studies the social impact of the

internet. Since December 1999, the Washington D.C. research center has

examined how people’s internet use affects their families, communities, health

care, education, civic and political life, and work places.

The Project has issued more than 250 reports based on its surveys that examine

people’s online activities and the internet’s role in their lives. All of its reports

and datasets are available online for free at: http://www.pewinternet.org.

Lee is a co-author of Up for Grabs, Hopes and Fears, Ubiquity, Mobility,

Security, and Challenges and Opportunities. All are based on Project surveys

about the future of the internet. He is also writing a book entitled Networked: The

new social operating system with sociologist Barry Wellman about the social

impact of the internet and cell phones for MIT Press.

Prior to launching the Pew Internet Project, Lee was managing editor of U.S.

News & World Report. He is a graduate of Harvard University and has a master’s

degree in political science from Long Island University.

Suzanne M. Radell

Senior Policy Advisor, Office of International Affairs

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Suzanne M. Radell is a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of International

Affairs at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration

(NTIA), a specialized agency within the Department of Commerce. Ms. Radell is

the Agency’s lead on matters related to the Internet Corporation for Assigned

Names and Numbers (ICANN), the entity responsible for coordinating the

technical management of the domain name system. She also represents the

United States in ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), which

provides public policy input and advice to ICANN on behalf of over 100

members from governments in all regions, and leads USG efforts to interact with

ICANN’s supporting organizations and constituencies.

Prior to assuming responsibility for the ICANN portfolio, Ms. Radell served as

the Standards Attache at the U.S. Mission to the EU in Brussels, Belgium

between July, 1999 and August, 2003. During her tenure, Ms. Radell developed

and managed a cross-sectoral Standards and Regulatory Policy program, with the

primary goal of improving access by U.S. firms to EU markets by identifying, and

seeking ways to reduce, technical barriers to trade created by European

regulations, standards, and conformity assessment procedures.

Ms. Radell began her career with NTIA in 1982 and progressively assumed

responsibilities in the areas of U.S.-EU telecommunications relations, the OECD,

international regulatory policy, international standards, and the Global

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Information Infrastructure initiative. In the regulatory policy arena, Ms. Radell

developed NTIA and Executive Branch positions on a broad range of U.S. and

foreign telecommunications regulatory policy developments, such as foreign entry

regulation and international accounting and settlements policy. She also

promoted the U.S. voluntary, private-sector led approach to standards

development and facilitated U.S. private sector leadership in the 1997 Global

Standards Conference. Ms. Radell was the primary drafter of the

Administration’s position on the Global Information Infrastructure, issued in

1995, and provided support to senior Administration officials participating in a

series of Ministerial-level conferences on the Information Society and E-

Commerce between 1995 and 1998.

Ms. Radell was born in Istanbul, Turkey and has lived in Lebanon, Italy,

Okinawa, Germany, France, and Belgium. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree

from Schiller College in Paris, France and her Master’s Degree from the State

University of New York at Binghamton.

Keith Robertory

Disaster Services Technology Manager

American Red Cross

As the Disaster Services Technology Manager for the American Red Cross, Keith

Robertory oversees all the technology that the Red Cross deploys to support

disaster relief operations in the United States.

His team supervises the hundreds of volunteers deployed each year with the

specific tasks of setting up the infrastructure the Red Cross needs to provide relief

to victims of disasters.

It includes all the hardware, such as satellite earth stations, communication

response trucks, servers, laptops, cell phones, IP phones, satellite phones, two-

way radios, and everything needed to connect it all together.

Mr. Robertory has been with the Red Cross in a number of positions since

1997, and has been in the technology industry since the mid-80s. He

serves as an Adjunct Professor with the George Washington University,

Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management.

Chelsea Rowe

Cornell University Student

Chelsea Rowe is in the class of 2014 at Cornell University where she is majoring

in Communication and minoring in Applied Economics and Management. She

made the Dean’s list both semesters of her first year at Cornell and is part of The

National Society of Collegiate Scholars. She is from Annapolis, Maryland and is

part of the marketing team for the new tech start-up Memsparx inc. Chelsea is

also a member of the Cornell Varsity Women’s Lacrosse Team as well as the

Cornell Club SAAC.

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Jacquelynn Ruff

Vice President – International Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs

Verizon Communications

Jacquelynn (Jackie) Ruff is Vice President – International Public Policy and

Regulatory Affairs for Verizon Communications. In addition to being a leading

communications provider in the U.S., Verizon provides voice, data, and Internet

services on its state-of-the-art fiber-optic network to customers in more than 150

countries. Ms. Ruff leads the group that is responsible for public policy

development, advocacy, and guidance around international issues. She directs

Verizon’s global policy work in organizations such as the ITU, the OECD, APEC,

and the IGF. Ms. Ruff joined Verizon in 2004 from the International Bureau of

the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), where she was Associate Chief

and Chief of Staff for the Bureau. She previously practiced law with the

communications and the Latin America groups of an international law firm.

Heather I. Shaw

Vice President, ICT Policy

United States Council for International Business

Heather Shaw serves as the lead staff person for information, communications

and technology issues at the United States Council for International Business . In

that capacity, she follows, discusses and briefs members from some 300 leading

U.S. companies, professional services firms and associations on a wide range of

international business issues including initiatives to regulate transborder data

flows, to combat cybercrime, to promote liberalization in the services sector, and

to promote the role of self regulation in ensuring responsible business

practices. Ms. Shaw works through USCIB’s international affiliations and

directly with the US Government to provide a U.S. business perspective into

international negotiations on those issues. Ms. Shaw has represented USCIB

members’ interests in several international fora, including the UN, Asia Pacific

Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation

and Development. She has served as a Special Advisor to the Chair of the

Multistakeholder Advisory Group to the IGF since 2006.

David Sohn

Center for Democracy and Technology

David Sohn joined the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) in 2005,

where he focuses on copyright, Internet neutrality, and privacy issues raised by

the emergence of the Internet and digital technologies. Prior to joining CDT, Mr.

Sohn worked for nearly five years as Commerce Counsel for Senator Ron Wyden,

where he advised the Senator on technology and telecommunications issues

coming before the Senate Commerce Committee.

In that capacity, Mr. Sohn worked on legislation relating to such matters as

spyware, digital copyright, and online privacy, and played a major role in

enactment of the first federal anti-spam law. Before joining Senator Wyden's

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office, Mr. Sohn practiced law in Washington, D.C. at Wilmer, Cutler &

Pickering, with a focus on telecommunications law and regulation.

Mr. Sohn received his B.A. degree from Amherst College and his J.D.

from Stanford Law School. He also received an M.Sc. degree from the London

School of Economics.

Alexander Stanford

Federal Policy, Strategy and Research Intern

Policy Group - Akerman Senterfitt, LLC

Alex Stanford is a New England native, completing his undergraduate studies in

political science and economics at the University of New Hampshire. While

working his way through college he earned membership to the Pi Sigma Alpha

national political science honor society and has been an active volunteer in his

community.

While in school Alex became dynamically involved in local, state, and now

federal politics. He served as an intern to former George H.W. Bush Chief of

Staff and former NH Governor John H. Sununu, while Chairman of the NHGOP

in 2009. Building on his political experiences Alex became the Regional Field

Director for a US Congressional bid in 2010 and went on to be the Director of

Operations of NH Executive Councilor Chris Sununu’s successful campaign later

that year.

Alex remained on board with Councilor Sununu until May of 2011 when he took

leave to come to Washington and engage with the federal policy making process.

He is currently a federal policy, strategy and research intern with Akerman

Senterfitt’s policy group in DC and is looking forward to a career in government

affairs and the legislative process.

Amie Stepanovich

National Security Counsel

Electronic Privacy Information Center

Amie Stepanovich is the EPIC National Security Counsel, focusing on issues of

national security, domestic surveillance, and cybersecurity. She is a graduate

of New York Law School, where she pursued studies on media law and

technology. She has a Bachelors of Science degree, magna cum laude, in

advertising from the Florida State University. Ms. Stepanovich is the former

editor-in-chief for the New York Law School Media Law & Policy law journal,

and, during law school, was active in issues involving women's rights and civil

liberties. Previous internships include work with the Legal Aid Society and

the Media Law Resource Center, as well as with T-Systems North America, Inc.

Ms. Stepanovich is a member of the New York bar.

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Amber Sterling

Senior Intellectual Proper’s Specialist

Amber Sterling is the Senior Intellectual Proper’s specialist for the Association of

American Medical Colleges. She has become a leader in the non-profit

community for trademark and internet issues. She is the co-founder and current

chair of ICANN's newest constituency, the Not-for-Profit Operational Concerns

Constituency.

Jeff Stern

Elon University

Jeff Stern, 19, is a rising sophomore at Elon University. He is the online editor-in-

chief for the award-winning student newspaper and daily news gathering

organization The Pendulum. He is majoring broadcast & new media and

information science and is interested in interactive media, web development and

documentary filmmaking.

Jeff has known his way around the Internet since the days of dial-up and AOL

Keywords. While his Neopet may now be starving, he continues to seek out and

implement innovative and creative uses for the World Wide Web. You can find

him online at JeffStern.com. And he is also part of the documentary journalism

team from the Imagining the Internet Center that is recording the events of IGF-

USA 2011.

Kristen Steves

Cornell University

Kristen Steves is pursuing a double major in Communication and International

Studies at Cornell University. This summer she is interning in DC at the Center

for Social Leadership and taking summer classes at Cornell University.

Additionally, she is blogger for End Slavery Now, an anti-slavery non-profit. She

has previously worked at E&J Gallo Winery in the departments of Consumer

Research and Supply Chain. Kristen is a news team member of Slope Media

group, which produces online local, national, and international news broadcasts.

She is involved in research that focuses on organizational behavior and

psychology.

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Lawrence E. Strickling

Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

On June 25, 2009, the United States Senate confirmed Lawrence E. Strickling as

Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information at the Department of

Commerce. In this role, Strickling serves as Administrator of the National

Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the executive

branch agency that is principally responsible for advising the President on

communications and information policies, managing the Federal use of

electromagnetic spectrum, performing cutting-edge telecommunications research

and engineering, formulating and advocating for U.S. positions on international

communications and information technology policy matters, and administering

infrastructure and public telecommunications facilities grants.

Mr. Strickling is a technology policy expert with more than two decades of

experience in the public and private sectors. As Policy Coordinator for Obama for

America, Strickling oversaw two dozen domestic policy committees and was

responsible for technology and telecommunications issues. Prior to joining the

campaign, Strickling was Chief Regulatory and Chief Compliance Officer at

Broadwing Communications for three years. His private sector experience also

includes serving in senior roles at Allegiance Telecom and CoreExpress, Inc. and

as a member of the Board of Directors of Network Plus.

Philip Verveer

U.S. Department of Sate

U.S. Coordinator International Communications & Information Policy

Ambassador Philip L. Verveer was confirmed as Deputy Assistant Secretary of

State and U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information

Policy in August, 2009.

Verveer has practiced communications and antitrust law in the government and in

private law firms for more than thirty-five years. From 1969 to 1981, 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, Verveer participated in a series of decisions that enabled increased

competition in video and telephone services and limited regulation of information

services. In 1979, Verveer became a charter member of the Senior Executive

Service and in 1980 received the Distinguished Presidential Rank award.

Between 1981 and 2009, Verveer engaged in private law practice in Washington,

DC.

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In 1995 and 1996, 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.

Verveer is a graduate of Georgetown University (1966, BSFS), and the University

of Chicago Law School (1969, JD).

John Struble

International Relations Officer

International Communications and Information Policy

U.S. Department of State

John Struble came to the State Department’s International information and policy

Office in 2009, where he is Head of the U.S. Delegations to the Asia Pacific

Economic Cooperation (APEC) Telecommunications and Information Working

Group and to the International Telecommunication Union Study Group 2 on the

operational aspects of international telecommunication standards. John joined the

State Department in 1985 as an Economic Officer and has served at the American

Embassies in Bulgaria, Jamaica, Portugal and Sudan. Most recently, in Sudan, he

served as Deputy Chief of the Political/Economic Section at Embassy Khartoum,

as well as Acting Principal Officer at the U.S. Consulate in Juba. In Washington,

he has served in the State Department’s Bureaus of Economic, Energy and

Business Affairs; European Affairs; International Organization Affairs; and

Intelligence and Research.

John holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in International Relations from

Georgetown University and an MA in Economics from Cleveland State

University.

Shane Tews

Vice President

Global Public Policy and Government Relations

VeriSign, Inc.

Shane Tews is the Vice President for Global Public Policy and Government

Relations for VeriSign, Inc. VeriSign operates intelligent infrastructure that

enables and protects billions of interactions every day across the world's Internet

Infrastructure. VeriSign operates the constellation of servers that run the .com

and .net domain name systems.

Shane represents VeriSign on Internet Governance, Security and Communications

issues both domestically and internationally. She works closely with the

Administration, Congress, State & Local Government Officials and International

policy makers who work on International communications and technology. She

participates in numerous e-commerce policy forums on issues regarding Internet

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security, Internet infrastructure, content, supply chain management technology,

privacy and tax issues.

Shane is a board member of the Internet Caucus Advisory Counsel, the

Information Technology Industry Counsel, The Information Technology Industry

Foundation, the Internet Alliance, the European American Business Council, and

The United States Telecommunications Training Institute.

Prior to being at VeriSign Shane represented the Distilled Spirits Council as their

lead Federal lobbyist for four years working on tax, advertising, and regulation

issues.

Shane has also worked for an economic think tank, Citizens for a Sound Economy

working on tax, federal budget, telecommunications, appropriations, electricity

deregulation, regulatory reform, labor, health care, FDA reform and legal reform.

Shane worked in Congress from 1992 to 1995 as Legislative Director to

Congressman Gary Franks from Connecticut on Energy and Commerce issues.

From 1989 to 1992 Shane worked in the first Bush Administration, as a special

assistant to Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner and in the Office of

Legislative Affairs, and later in the Administration for the President in White

House in Cabinet Affairs.

Shane graduated from American University in 1988. She is originally from

Lincoln, Nebraska.

Nick Troiano

Georgetown University ‘11

Nick Troiano is a senior at Georgetown University where is he studying

government. He recently returned from a year-long leave of absence, which he

spent working for an organization that will soon announce plans to hold the first

ever online presidential nominating convention in 2012.

Nick is a co-founder of myImpact.org, an emerging online platform for volunteers

to record, share and track their impact. He is most passionate about the

intersection of technology and democracy. Nick is from Milford, Pennsylvania.

William Vogt

Georgetown University ‘12

William Vogt is a rising senior in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown

University, majoring in Regional and Comparative Studies (Asia and Latin

America). He currently lives in Plainfield, NJ, and is a legislative intern for a New

York City Councilman this summer.

Previously, he was the Communications Director for the Georgetown University

College Democrats, serving Georgetown’s largest student-run organization as an

Executive Board member.

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In this position, he created a New Media department for the club, coordinating

Facebook, Twitter, and website posts to spread news about events and activities to

on- and off-campus media outlets.

He is active in Campus Ministry at Georgetown, where he is currently a member

of the University’s Chapel Choir.

Keith Weber

Colorado College '12

AT&T External Affairs Intern

Keith Weber is currently a rising Senior at Colorado College and is a double

major in International Political Economy and Russian & Eurasian Studies. In the

Summer of 2010, Keith was chosen to participate in a selective program studying

inter-ethnic relations between Tatar and Eastern European people in Ukraine,

taught by professors from the United States and Ukraine.

This past semester, Keith studied at Institutes in both Moscow and St. Petersburg,

Russia to study Advanced Russian Language and while there, lived with two host

families. This upcoming school year, Keith will be co-chairing activities at the

Russian Language House, an on-campus house exclusively designed for Russian

students. Keith is also a member of the Club Rugby Team at Colorado College.

This summer he is participating in an internship with AT&T under Eric Loeb, in

the International/External Affairs Department.

Nancy E. Weiss

General Counsel

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Nancy E. Weiss is the General Counsel of the Institute of Museum and Library

Services, a Federal agency that supports and promotes library, information, and

museum services throughout the Nation. Prior to joining IMLS, Nancy served as

Deputy General Counsel of the National Endowment for the Humanities, where

she also provided counsel to the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Program and

represented the agency on the National Archives Trust Fund Board. Nancy earlier

practiced litigation and media law at Williams and Connelly in Washington D.C.,

held a legal research fellowship in New Delhi, India, and clerked for the Hon.

William W Schwarzer (N.D. California and Director of the Federal Judicial

Center). Nancy graduated with honors from the University of Michigan Law

School, and phi beta kappa with a degree in Economics from the Wharton School

of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Daniel Weitzner

Associate Administrator, Office of Policy Analysis and Development

NTIA, U.S. Department of Commerce

Daniel J. Weitzner serves as Associate Administrator for the Office of Policy

Analysis and Development in the Commerce Department’s National

Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). He directs the

office that conducts research and analysis and prepares policy recommendations

for the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information.

NTIA serves as the principal adviser to the President on telecommunications and

information policy. In this role, NTIA formulates, advocates, and participates in

the implementation of policies, frequently working with other Executive Branch

agencies to develop and present the Administration's position. Since its creation in

1978, NTIA has been at the cutting edge of critical technology issues.

The Office of Policy Analysis and Development (OPAD) is the domestic policy

division of NTIA. OPAD supports NTIA's role as principal adviser to the

Executive Branch and the Secretary of Commerce on telecommunications and

information policies by conducting research and analysis and preparing policy

recommendations. The office generates policies that promote innovation,

competition, and economic growth for the benefit of American businesses and

consumers.

Prior to joining NTIA, Weitzner was Director of the MIT CSAIL Decentralized

Information Group, taught Internet public policy in the Electrical Engineering and

Computer Science Department, and was Policy Director of the World Wide Web

Consortium's Technology and Society activities. At DIG he led research on the

development of new technology and public policy models for addressing legal

challenges raised by the Web, including privacy, intellectual property, identity

management and new regulatory models for the Web. At W3C he was responsible

for Web standards needed to address public policy requirements, including the

Platform for Privacy Preference (P3P) and XML Security technologies.

Weitzner was co-founder and Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and

Technology, and Deputy Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Weitzner has law degree from Buffalo Law School, and a B.A. in Philosophy

from Swarthmore College. His writings have appeared in Science magazine, the

Yale Law Review, Communications of the ACM, Computerworld, Wired

Magazine and Social Research.

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Sally Shipman Wentworth

Regional Bureau Director for North America

Internet Society

Sally Shipman Wentworth is Regional Bureau Director

for North America/Public Policy at the Internet Society.

Prior to joining the Internet Society in 2009, Sally

Shipman Wentworth was the Assistant Director for

Telecommunications and Information Policy in the Office

of Science and Technology Policy at the White House

from 2007-2009.

From 1999 – 2007, Sally was a policy

advisor on Internet policy issues at the U.S. Department

of State. At the State Department, she was instrumental in building coalitions

among developed and developing countries and Internet stakeholders on Internet

public policy issues to promote a multi-stakeholder approach to ICT for

development.

Fred Whiteside

Manager

NIST

Fred Whiteside currently serves as Manager for the NIST Cloud Computing

Target Business Use Case Development project. In the past 10 years he has served

in various capacities at the Department of Commerce inluding Manager,

Cybersecurity Operations and Critical Infrastructure and at the US Patent and

Trademark Office as Chief, Cybersecurity Operations Division and Acting

Director, IT Security Program Office.

Jonathan Zuck

President

Association for Competitive Technology

Jonathan Zuck is president of the Association for Competitive Technology

(ACT), a DC and Brussels based organization that lobbies on behalf of small

software developers. Back in the day, however, Jonathan was a bit of

programming guru, speaking and teaching all over the world. With five Microsoft

MVP awards, hundreds of articles and components, and a few books to his name,

some of you may have learned a lot of programming from him.

After selling his third company 10 years ago, Jonathan became astutely aware of

the growing influence politics and public policy were having on the IT industry

generally and on small businesses in particular. He became president of the ACT,

a trade association that represents small IT companies around the world on issues

as far-reaching as trade, public procurement, intellectual property protection,

privacy, and security. Jonathan and ACT are devoted to creating an environment

which is open to all comers and as free as possible from the kind of bureaucracy

that cripples small businesses.