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• Rebecca Arbogast – Principal of Communications and Tech Regulatory Group, Stifel Nicolaus – Rebecca Arbogast is Principal of Stifel Nicolaus’s communications and tech regulatory group. She provides advice to institutional investors on legal and regulatory issues affecting communications industries, including spectrum, intellectual property, and antitrust. She joined Stifel Nicolaus’s predecessor firm, Legg Mason Capital Markets, from the Federal Communications Commission where she was Chief of the International Bureau Telecommunications Division. She led an office of attorneys, economists, and engineers, represented the FCC’s domestic communications policies in international meetings, provided technical and strategic advice on communications trade issues, and shaped the agency’s policies for international communications services. Before joining the FCC, Ms. Arbogast served in the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice, providing legal advice to the White House, Attorney General, and Executive Branch agencies. She began her legal practice as a corporate attorney with the Washington D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering, representing clients in litigation, international arbitrations, and transactions. Ms. Arbogast received her JD from the Yale Law School and her MA from the University of Iowa. She teaches Constitutional Law at Johns Hopkins School of Public Policy. She clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and was the first Fulbright Fellow in European Community Law, studying and teaching in London. Before that, she ran a small business.
• David Ardia - Director & Founder, Citizen Media Law Project – The Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) is jointly affiliated with Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Center for Citizen Media. David is a Fellow at the Berkman Center and the Director and Founder of CMLP. He received his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law in 1996 and an L.M. from Harvard Law School in June 2007. Prior to coming to Harvard, he was assistant counsel a The Washington Post and before that was an associate at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. where he handled a range of intellectual property and media litigation. While at Williams & Connolly, David also performed pre-publication libel review for the National Enquirer and In Touch Weekly. David is a former member of the Newspaper Association of America's Legal Affairs Committee and is a current member of the First Amendment and Media Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association, the Media Law Committee of the District of Columbia Bar, and the New England Media Lawyers Group.
• Alicia Batts - Partner - Proskauer Rose LLP - Alicia Batts is a Partner in Proskauer Rose's Litigation Department and a member of its antitrust practice group. Her practice concentrates on all issues relating to unfair and deceptive trade practices. She regularly represents clients before antitrust enforcement agencies and in federal antitrust cases. In addition, she advises clients on compliance with privacy regulations enforced by the Federal Trade Commission. Alicia worked as an antitrust advisor to Federal Trade Commissioner Mozelle Thompson, for whom she reviewed antitrust and consumer protection actions before the FTC and made recommendations on enforcement and policy matters before the Federal Antitrust Agency. Ms. Batts has also served as vice-chair of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section Business Torts & Civil RICO Committee, on the ABA antitrust section Litigation Task Force, and is a former member of the editorial board of the Antitrust Law Journal. A regular panelist at antitrust conferences, she is also a member of the board of directors of the Appleseed Foundation and is listed in Black Enterprise's "America's Top Black Lawyers." She is a graduate of Columbia University Law School and Harvard College.
• Joe Bartling, Director of Electronic Evidence & Technology Consulting, FTI Consulting – Joe Bartling is a director in FTI’s Technology Consulting practice. Mr. Bartling has over 20 years of technology consulting experience including expert testimony on cases involving Oracle and other database and Internet technologies. In addition to leading FTI’s electronic evidence team, he personally specializes in enterprise electronic evidence identification, preservation, collection, recovery and processing specifically for matters before regulatory agencies, in investigations, or for litigation. He was the co-leader of the technical team for the forensic data collection and analysis in the government’s investigation of Enron Corporation, California energy markets, and energy "wash trades", and contributed to the FERC chairman’s final report to Congress. Prior to joining FTI, Mr. Bartling was the Director of Technology Services under a contract to the U.S. Department of Justice, supporting over 600 litigating attorneys with expert E-discovery, electronic evidence, and technology consulting services. Mr. Bartling was formerly a serial entrepreneur, having started and built several technology companies, including SQLWare, an Oracle-based consulting company, and an 8,000-site Internet advertising network that was acquired by a venture-backed start-up, helping that firm raise $14M in "B" round financing.
• Michael Colopy - Senior Vice President for Communications, Aristotle – Michael Colopy has served as communications strategist and policy aide in House, Senate, and Presidential campaigns, as well as in both Houses of Congress. In his capacity as senior assistant to such national figures as Senator John Glenn and New York Governor Hugh Carey, he learned firsthand the hazards of political enterprises. As the first national political director of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Michael established its PAC, designing its new organizational structure and donor recruitment campaigns while assisting numerous member companies in creating and managing their own PACs. An esteemed speechwriter and marketing consultant, Michael has written pieces that have appeared in many leading newspapers over the past twenty years. Additionally, Michael has a wide breadth of experience presenting on topics of Online Networking and Identity Verification, such as testifying in a congressional hearing regarding the effects and needs for age verification in the realm of online gaming. He has advised countless decision-makers, foreign and domestic, on effective political advocacy and communications strategies. Michael earned his undergraduate degree at Princeton University and did graduate work at George Washington University.
• Robert Corn-Revere - Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP – Mr. Corn-Revere specializes in First Amendment, Internet and communications law. He has served as counsel in First Amendment litigation involving the Communications Decency Act, the Child Online Protection Act, Internet content filtering in public libraries, public broadcasting regulations and export controls on encryption software. In 1999 Mr. Corn-Revere was listed on a 30th Anniversary Roll of Honor by the American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom and Freedom to Read Foundation for his role as lead counsel in Mainstream Loudoun v. Board of Trustees of the Loudoun County Library. He successfully argued United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc., 529 U.S. 803 (2000), in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Section 505 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as a violation of the First Amendment. Mr. Corn-Revere also served as lead counsel in Motion Picture Association v. FCC, 309 F.3d 796 (D.C. Cir. 2002), in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated video description rules imposed on networks by the FCC. He also Successfully petitioned Governor George E. Pataki to grant the first posthumous pardon in New York history to the late comedian Lenny Bruce. Before joining Davis Wright Tremaine L.L.P. Mr. Corn-Revere was a partner at Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.. Before that, he served as Chief Counsel to Interim Chairman James H. Quello of the FCC. He has written extensively on First Amendment, Internet and communications-related issues and is a frequent speaker at professional conferences.
• Tim Deal – Senior Analyst – Pike & Fischer's Broadband Advisory Services - Tim Deal serves as Pike & Fischer's Senior Analyst, with a special focus on broadband-enabled consumer electronics devices and on emerging mass market applications such as online video sharing and VoIP-optimized e-commerce. Tim has developed SWOT analyses on such products as the iPhone, the Apple TV service, and rich-media applications on such social networking sites as MySpace. Tim has been providing detailed and actionable competitive intelligence analysis to leading technology firms for more than six years. In that time he has authored more than one hundred comprehensive syndicated reports and an equal number of custom financial models covering the computing, consumer electronics, digital media, and storage industries. Prior to his career in competitive intelligence, Tim served as a counterintelligence/human intelligence and force protection analyst with the United States Army. Contact Tim at tdeal@pf.com.
• Gerry DeHaven - Managing Director, Blue Beacon Capital - Mr. DeHaven is currently the Managing Director of Blue Beacon Capital, a leading boutique investment banking firm with an established presence in the telecom and emerging IP space. Mr. DeHaven’s current focus includes VoIP, Wireless, Network Management, and other emerging IP technologies and service. Most recently, Mr. DeHaven worked with Speakeasy in its $97M sale to Best Buy. The Blue Beacon team has also managed recent transactions with numerous other leading IP and VOIP firms, such as Airband, Broadvox, CommPartners, ClearEnd, Covad, General Telecom, Latinode, Net2Phone, New Global Telecom, STS Telecom and others. Prior to investment banking, Mr. DeHaven spent more than 15 years in telecommunications serving in executive management roles with leading service providers including Broadvox, Covista, and Viatel. He has also founded several successful telecom/internet ventures, including Blink Data and Vista International, and has served on the Board of Directors for several other communication and technology companies. Mr. DeHaven has been a regular speaker at industry trade shows including Internet Telephony, Ascent, and Channel Partners and is a contributor to several industry publications.
• Rob Dolin, Program Manager, Windows Live Social Networking - Microsoft - Rob Dolin is a Program Manager on the Windows Live Experience Social Networking team which produces Windows Live Spaces, a blogging, photo sharing, and social networking web service, as well as Windows Live Writer, a cross-platform blog entry authoring application. Mr. Dolin’s feature areas include Search, Homepage, and Notifications. As the team’s “Privacy and Policy Champ,” Mr. Dolin is also the engineering team’s initial escalation point for privacy and policy questions and drives internal privacy and policy reviews of all of the team’s features. Prior to joining the team, Mr. Dolin was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Office Publisher team and Online Editor for the Daily Illini. In both positions he worked on translation of print media to online form factors. Rob is a 2001 cum laude graduate of the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) College of Engineering and holds a graduate certificate from the University of Washington (Seattle) in User-Centered Design. Rob is from the Chicago metro area and lives in Seattle, WA.
• Carolyn Elefant - Founder, Myshingle.com - Carolyn Elefant is the founder of MyShingle.com, a website for and about solos and small law firms. In parallel, she is the founder and principal attorney in the Law Offices of Carolyn Elefant (LOCE) in Washington, DC. Prior to founding LOCE Ms. Elefant worked as an associate attorney for the law firm of Duncan and Allen, a national energy boutique located in Washington D.C. from 1990-1993 and served as an attorney advisor with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 1988 to 1990. In addition, from 1994 through 1997, Ms. Elefant held an adjunct faculty position with the University of Maryland University College Paralegal Studies Program where she taught contract law. She earned her J.D. at Cornell Law School and her B.A. at Brandeis University.
• Markham Erickson - Partner - Holch & Erickson, LLP - Markham C. Erickson is a founding partner of Holch & Erickson LLP (www.holcherickson.com). He counsels and represents clients on a broad range of legal and policy issues concerning new technologies and the Internet.He also serves as Executive Director and General Counsel to NetCoalition (www.netcoalition.com), a public policy association that represents leading Internet search engines, content, and service providers on the major legislative and administrative proposals concerning the application of criminal and civil laws to the Internet, including trademark and copyright, antitrust, privacy and data security, government surveillance, and financial market regulation. He chairs the Open Internet Coalition (www.openinternetcoalition.com), a coalition representing consumers, grassroots organizations, and Internet companies engaged in the so-called “net neutrality” debate.He has represented the United States Internet industry on behalf of the U.S. government before the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Internet speech and content regulation matters.
• Dan Glickman, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) - Dan Glickman is Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) which serves as the voice and advocate of the American motion picture, home video and television industries. Its members include Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, NBC Universal, and Warner Bros Entertainment Inc.
  
  Prior to joining the MPAA, Mr. Glickman was the Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (2002-2004). Mr. Glickman also served as Senior Advisor to the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, DC.
  
  Mr. Glickman served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from March 1995 until January 2001. Under his leadership, the Department administered farm and conservation programs; modernized food safety regulations; forged international trade agreements to expand U.S. markets; and improved its commitment to fairness and equality in civil rights.
  
  Before his appointment as Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Glickman served for 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives representing the 4th Congressional District of Kansas. During that time, he was a member of the House Agriculture Committee, including six years as chairman of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over federal farm policy issues. Moreover, he was an active member of the House Judiciary Committee; chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; and was a leading congressional expert on general aviation policy.
  
  Before his election to Congress in 1976, Mr. Glickman served as president of the Wichita, Kansas, School Board; was a partner in the law firm of Sargent, Klenda and Glickman; and worked as a trial attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He received his B.A. in history from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from the George Washington University. He is a member of the Kansas and District of Columbia Bars.
• David Green - Vice President, Public Policy Development, NBC Universal - David E. Green is Vice-President for Public Policy in NBC Universal’s Washington Government Relations Office, where he focuses on public policy issues involving the protection of digital content. Before joining NBC Universal in April of 2005, Mr. Green was the Vice President and Counsel for Technology and New Media for the Motion Picture Association of America, where he handled similar public policy issues for the major U.S. motion picture studios. Prior to joining the MPAA in May 2003, Mr. Green worked for the U.S. Department of Justice. There, he served as the Principal Deputy Chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division, where he helped coordinate the national enforcement of criminal laws protecting against computer hacking and intellectual property theft. Before that, Mr. Green prosecuted public corruption cases as Senior Litigation Counsel in the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section. Mr. Green also worked for several years as an associate with the law firm of Arnold & Porter, where he was involved in litigation and in legislative work, including intellectual property protection. Mr. Green graduated from Oberlin College with a Bachelor of Arts in History. He received his Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Louis H. Pollak in Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
• Jonathan D. Hart - Partner, Dow Lohnes - Jon Hart is a member of the law firm of Dow Lohnes PLLC, where he practices in the firm’s Media and Information Technologies group out of Washington, D.C. Jon specializes in the representation of media and technology companies on a broad range of commercial, transactional, operational and content matters; he has been representing businesses that gather and distribute news and information, sell advertising, market goods and services, and build community on the Internet for as long as there has been a commercial Internet. His clients include dozens of websites, newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and technology and telecommunications companies. Jon has been on the faculty of the Stanford Professional Publishing Courses since 1994. He is a member of the board of directors of TRUSTe (www.truste.org) and writes and speaks frequently on media and technology law. Jon is a contributor to the International Libel & Privacy Handbook (Bloomberg 2006). The fifth edition of his book, Internet Law: A Field Guide, will be published by BNA Books in the fall of 2007. Before entering private practice, Jon clerked for United States Circuit Judge Jerome Farris and United States District Judge Almeric Christian. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford Law School.
• Martin Hansen, Partner - Covington & Burling LLP - Martin Hansen has represented some of the world’s leading information technology, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical companies on a broad range of cutting edge international trade, intellectual property, and competition issues. Mr. Hansen has extensive experience in advising clients on matters arising under the World Trade Organization agreements, treaties administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization, bilateral and regional free trade agreements, and other trade agreements. Drawing on ten years of experience in Covington’s London and DC offices and as Vice-Chair of the firm's Technology, Media, and Communications group, his practice focuses on helping innovative companies solve challenges on intellectual property and trade matters before US courts, the US government, and foreign governments and tribunals. Mr. Hansen also represents software companies and a leading IT trade association on electronic commerce, Internet security, and online liability issues
• Bruce Joseph, Partner – Wiley Rein LLP – Mr. Joseph is the leader of the firm's Copyright Practice. He represents clients in connection with copyright litigation, copyright and digital content protection legislation, regulation and inter-industry activities and copyright and trademark licensing and registration. He has been deeply involved in issues relating to the Internet, digital technology protection measures and DRMs, as well as music and sound recording licensing.
• Chris Kelly, VP & Chief Privacy Officer, Facebook – Chris Kelly is Vice President of Corporate Development and Chief Privacy Officer of Facebook, Inc., an online directory company in Palo Alto. Chris brings more than a decade of business, information privacy, public policy, and legal experience to the Facebook management team. He has served as an advisor on corporate transactions such as Disney’s purchase of Infoseek, Macromedia’s purchase of Andromedia, and numerous strategic business deals in the Internet and software sectors for clients such as Google, Netscape, eBay, and DIRECTV. He also previously created the Chief Privacy Officer position at broadband Internet service provider Excite@Home, digital marketing company Kendara (which was sold to Excite@Home), and professional connection management company Spoke Software. Through his in-house work and service at international law firm Baker & McKenzie and technology law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Chris has advised major Internet and media clients on the increasing challenges of online business, intellectual property, and privacy protection in the digital age. Prior to his time in legal practice, he served as an advisor to the Clinton Administration’s White House Domestic Policy Council and the U.S. Department of Education. Chris holds a B.A. from Georgetown University, an M.A. from Yale University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. At Harvard, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology and was part of the founding team for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
• Stephen Kline, Chief Safety Officer, Xanga.com – Xanga.com is New York City-based weblog community made up of more than 30 million users. Prior to coming to Xanga in August 2006, Kline spent the previous decade handling Internet crime and compliance cases – six years as an attorney in the Internet Bureau of the New York State Attorney General's Office and four years in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. Kline has lectured on the investigation and prosecution of Internet crime and appeared as a speaker and panelist on the subjects of Internet fraud, privacy, spamming, data breaches and federal and state consumer protection laws. Kline is a Certified Information Privacy Professional.
• David E. Leibowitz, Executive Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs - Gotuit – David Leibowitz brings thirty years of experience providing thought leadership for key business, law and policy issues facing the entertainment, new media and consumer electronics industries. Leibowitz served as Executive V.P. President and General Counsel of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), responsible for business, policy and legal issues facing the industry with particular emphasis on how to position the industry to best utilize new physical formats and electronic delivery platforms. He also Co-Founded and served as chairman for VERANCE, a leading audio watermark technology provider offering solutions to protect, manage, and monitor audio and audiovisual content, including the new HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats. Earlier in his career, Leibowitz was a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm Wiley Rein & Fielding representing a number of Fortune 100 media and entertainment companies. David Leibowitz also has served as Policy Planning Advisor to the Register of Copyrights for the U.S. Copyright Office and as an adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Miami Law School and the Communications Law Institute of the Columbus School of Law (Catholic University).
• Phyllis Hurwitz Marcus - Senior Attorney, Division of Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer Protection, U.S. Federal Trade Commission - As a senior staff attorney Ms. Marcus is assigned to investigate and prosecute deceptive and fraudulent practice. Ms. Marcus' experience includes enforcing various laws and regulations such as the Mail or Telephone Order Merchandise Rules and the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act. Prior to joining the FTC in 1998, she served for several years as the Legal Director of The Appleseed Foundation, and as a litigation associate at Crowell & Moring LLP. From 1993 to 1994, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable John C. Eldridge of the Maryland Court of Appeals. Ms. Marcus is a 1993 cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, and a 1990 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
• Christian Mayaud – Managing Director, The Verticom Group - Chris has extensive technology, healthcare, and operating experience managing companies from their start-up through their growth phases. Chris has a track record as an aggressive company builder and market entry strategist. In the late 1980's, Chris combined his proficiency and commitment to medicine with his background in engineering to develop clinical communication tools dedicated to empowering physicians in the practice of medicine. Chris founded several physician-centric healthcare companies headquartered in Westchester, NY (including Physicians’ Online, Inc., Med-E-Systems Corporation, Advanced Health Corporation, and vPORT). Chris founded The Verticom Group in 1996 and works closely with numerous healthcare and non-healthcare portfolio companies. A board-certified internist, bioengineer, and physicist, Chris received his clinical training at Columbia, Hahnemann, Mt. Sinai, and Lenox Hill hospitals. He currently lives in Bronxville, NY with his wife, Hillary Burnett, and their three children.
• Tim McElgunn – Chief Analyst, Pike & Fischer's Broadband Advisory Services - Tim has more than 20 years of experience and expertise in market sizing, forecasting, segmentation and share analysis in emerging and legacy segments of the telecommunications industry. He focuses on the business strategies and competitive status of U.S. cable companies, telephone companies, satellite TV providers and broadband-enabled application providers such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Before joining BAS in November 2006, Tim headed up U.S. consumer broadband analysis for eight years at Stratecast, a division of Frost & Sullivan. He also held senior analyst positions at both Datapro/NBI and Gartner Dataquest. Contact Tim at 856-751-6723 / tmcelgunn@pf.com
• John B. Morris, Jr. is the Director of the Center for Democracy & Technology's "Internet Standards, Technology and Policy Project." - Prior to joining the Center for Democracy & Technology in April 2001, Mr. Morris was a partner in the law firm of Jenner & Block, where he litigated groundbreaking cases in Internet and First Amendment law. He was a lead counsel in the ACLU v. Reno/American Library Association v. U.S. Dep't of Justice case, in which the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the Communications Decency Act of 1996 and extended to speech on the Internet the highest level of constitutional protection. In that case, Mr. Morris was responsible for the development of the factual presentation concerning how the Internet works, a presentation that served as the foundation for the Supreme Court's landmark decision. Mr. Morris's ties to the Center for Democracy & Technology are not new. From May 1999 through April 2000, he took a leave of absence from his law firm to serve as director of the Center for Democracy & Technology's Broadband Access Project. The Project undertook a comprehensive assessment of the legal, policy, and factual issues surrounding the emergence of broadband Internet access technologies. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Morris had extensive experience with both computers and politics. In the mid-1970's, as a staff member on Capitol Hill, Morris helped to promote the use of computer software to manage and improve constituent communications. In 1981, Mr. Morris joined the Datatel Minicomputer Company, where he was one of the lead system designers of the original version of the Quorum constituent management software. In 1985, he co-founded Intelligent Solutions, Inc., which took over development of Quorum and built it into the leading constituent services product used by Members of Congress today. Mr. Morris 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. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Thomas A. Clark of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked for three years as a staff attorney at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia. He joined Jenner & Block in 1990.
• Adam Palmer, General Counsel & Chief Cyber Security Counsel - Cyveillance Inc. - Adam Palmer is the Chief Cyber Security Counsel for Washington DC based internet brand protection and cyber security company, Cyveillance Inc. Adam provides legal counsel to Cyveillance on issues involving Internet governance, anti-phishing, malware detection, Internet financial fraud and internet brand protection. Cyveillance clients include 7 of the top 10 US Banks and a majority of the Fortune 50 companies in the United States. Prior to joining Cyveillance, Adam served as the Director of the Office of Legal Counsel for The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). The NCMEC is a private, nonprofit corporation headquartered in Alexandria, VA with branch offices in several other states. Adam regularly advised state and federal law enforcement, and prosecutors, on internet crimes against children cases. The NCMEC Office of Legal Counsel serves as legal counsel for all NCMEC departments and works closely with in-house federal law enforcement on legal issues. Adam has lectured extensively on prosecuting internet crimes against children to all levels of law enforcement. From 2000-2003, Adam served as a U.S. Navy JAG Prosecutor in Pearl Harbor Hawaii. Adam prosecuted numerous cases as a Navy JAG Attorney including a wide range of crimes against children and a nationally publicized double homicide case. Adam was lead prosecutor in over 50 Courts-Martial and argued dozens of motions in complex cases. While a Navy JAG, Adam also advised and lectured federal law enforcement agents on the investigation of crimes against children. At the end of his service, Adam was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal for outstanding service as a Prosecutor. Adam earned a J.D. in 2000 and an MBA in 2003. He is admitted to practice law in Indiana, South Carolina, Washington D.C. and Virginia.
• Jules Polonetsky - Chief Privacy Officer and Sr. Vice President, Consumer Advocacy, America Online, Inc. (AOL). – Jules is responsible for ensuring that AOL's users can trust the company with their information and for educating employees about best practices for advertising, content, and product development. In his previous role as AOL’s Vice President of Integrity Assurance he oversaw a wide range of consumer protection and risk management issues for AOL's brands (America Online, AIM, Netscape, Compuserve, Mapquest, MoviePhone, Spinner, WinAmp, ICQ, Advertising.com) including privacy, advertising policy, content and community standards, product standards, parental controls, safety and accessibility for users with disabilities. From March 2000 through April 2002, Jules was Chief Privacy Officer and Special Counsel at DoubleClick, the advertising and marketing technology company. In that role, he worked with DoubleClick clients to institute and police their privacy policies and managed compliance with data protection requirements for DoubleClick subsidiaries world-wide. Prior to his tenure at DoubleClick he served as the NYC Consumer Affairs Commissioner for Mayor Rudolph Giuliani where he was responsible for ensuring that all consumer advertising and sales complied with City, State and Federal consumer protection laws. Jules also served as an elected member of the New York State Assembly from 1994 to 1997, was a legislative aide to Congressman Charles Schumer and was a District Representative for Congressman Steve Solarz from 1990 to 1992. He practiced law in the New York office of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan from 1989 to 1990. Jules is a graduate of New York University School of Law and Yeshiva University, and is admitted to the Bars of New York, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and Virginia (Corporate Counsel). Jules is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional and has . served on the boards of a number of privacy and consumer protection organizations including the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the Privacy Committee of the Direct Marketing Association, the Children's Advertising Review Unit of the Council of BBB's, the Better Business Bureau, the Network Advertising Initiative, and the Trusted Download Advisory Committee of TRUSTe . From 2000-2002, Jules chaired the CPO Council of the Internet Advertising Bureau. In 2001, Crain's NY Business magazine named Jules one of the top technology leaders in New York City. He is a regular speaker at privacy and marketing industry events and has testified or presented as an industry expert before Congressional committees and the Federal Trade Commission.
• Mark Potts, Media/Web 2.0 consultant and co-founder of Backfence, Inc. – Mark is a leader in the development of innovative content and business strategies and products in online and print media. As co-founder of Backfence Inc., he is a pioneer in the field of user-generated, hyperlocal citizens media. He created one of the first electronic newspaper prototypes in the early 1990s, and then co-founded The Washington Post Co.'s digital division. He served on the founding team of the @Home Network, where he led the creation of the first consumer broadband programming service. Potts also was Chief Product Officer for Cahners Business Information (now Reed Business Information), the nation's largest trade publisher, where he managed Cahners Digital and oversaw the development of 120 trade magazine Web sites, include Variety.com and PublishersWeekly.com. As a consultant, Potts has developed strategies and products for The Washington Post Co., Cox Communications, News Century Network, Classified Ventures, Disney's Infoseek/Go Network, Tribe Networks and others. Formerly a reporter and editor at The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Examiner and the Associated Press, he is the co-author of two business books, The Leading Edge and Dirty Money.
• Audrey Haroz Reed, Partner, Hogan & Hartson, Audrey Reed's practice includes counseling clients on the acquisition, protection and commercialization of intellectual property with a particular emphasis on Internet, e-commerce, life sciences and telecommunications related matters. Audrey regularly works on technology licenses, e-commerce transactions (including Web site development, hosting agreements and co-branding agreements), Web site audits, intellectual property due diligence and general protection of intellectual property rights. She also advises clients regarding confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, consulting agreements and various alliance agreements (including reseller and systems integrator agreements). Prior to joining Hogan & Hartson, Audrey was an associate at a New York City law firm where she advised clients regarding trademark matters, technology licensing and copyright and domain name registrations and assignments.
• Patrick Ross, Copyright Alliance Executive Director, Patrick Ross is executive director of the Copyright Alliance, a grass-roots coalition of artists, producers and distributors from across the copyright spectrum launched in May 2007. The Copyright Alliance is a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization dedicated to the value of copyright as an agent for creativity, jobs and growth. Prior to launching the Copyright Alliance, Ross was a senior fellow and vice president with The Progress & Freedom Foundation, a free-market think tank in Washington, D.C. He focused on intellectual property issues for PFF’s Center for the Study of Digital Property, specifically the rights of artists. He was also PFF’s vice president for communications and external affairs. Ross spent a decade as a journalist covering the growth of the Internet. Most of that time was spent writing for Communications Daily and its sister publication Washington Internet Daily, the latter of which he managed. He also was the first Washington bureau chief for CNET News.com. Prior to writing for those publications he managed his own consulting business as a writer and editor. He is a nine-time award winner for investigative journalism. In the late 1980s Ross worked on Capitol Hill for U.S. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada. He studied international relations as an undergraduate at Pomona College and as a graduate student at Oxford University’s St. Antony’s College.
• Matthew Schruers - Senior Counsel for Litigation & Legislative Affairs, Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), Mr. Schruers is Senior Counsel for Litigation and Legislative Affairs at the Computer & Communications Industry Association. He joined CCIA from Morrison & Foerster LLP, where he practiced intellectual property, antitrust, and administrative law. As a representative of technology industries, he has testified before the U.S. Copyright Office on exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and has served as an NGO observer in committees of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Mr. Schruers recently served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, co-teaching a seminar on the IP legislative process. He received his B.A. cum laude from Duke University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was notes advisor for the Virginia Law Review. He has written or co-written various articles on intellectual property and secondary liability and received the John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics for his research on Internet service provider liability.
• Laurie C. Self, Partner - Covington & Burling LLP, Laurie Self is a partner in the Washington office whose practice focuses on US and international intellectual property, information technology and e-commerce law. Her broad-ranging experience encompasses copyright and trademark matters; anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting; IP policy and trade-related matters; and IP and IT licensing and transactions. Ms. Self is co-chair of the firm’s global Trademark and Copyright Group. She practiced in the firm's London office from 1992-1995. On behalf of her clients, Ms. Self has spearheaded anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting enforcement and law reform campaigns in numerous markets throughout the world, including in Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, and Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union. Her IP enforcement expertise encompasses both on-the-ground civil, administrative and criminal actions against infringers, as well as Internet monitoring and investigative strategies that use state-of-the-art technologies and forensic tools. Ms. Self regularly advises right holders in a broad range of industry sectors, including software, IT, pharmaceutical and luxury goods, on strategies to strengthen domestic and foreign IP laws and enforcement, including in China and other developing markets, and to ensure compliance with the WTO TRIPS Agreement, the WIPO copyright treaties and other bilateral and multilateral obligations. In that capacity, she has extensive experience working with US and foreign legislators, administration officials and other IP policymakers, and in building and coordinating inter- and cross-industry coalitions to advance the goals of her clients both domestically and internationally. Ms. Self also has deep expertise in the complexities of in-bound and out-bound IP and IT transactions and has represented both right holders and technology providers on the one hand, and licensees and other end users on the other, in a wide variety of IP, IT, content and media agreements. Her portfolio of transactional experience ranges from licensing, distribution, publishing, broadcasting and development deals to web-based hosting, services and support agreements to joint ventures and other cooperative arrangements. Having worked with right holders and the IT industry for more than 15 years, both within and outside the US, Ms. Self brings to the negotiating table expert knowledge of IP law; industry trends and practices; existing and emerging licensing, service and pricing models; and all other business and legal aspects of IP and technology deals, including complex issues of liability and risk allocation, indemnification, trade secrecy safeguards, privacy, consumer protection and bankruptcy. She also works with clients to develop and implement IP and software asset management programs that maximize the value of proprietary IP assets and minimize the risk of infringing third party rights.
• Scott Sleek, Director of Pike & Fischer's Broadband Advisory Services, oversees the day-to-day operations of our market research services and leads the development of analytical publications and briefings. As part of his duties, Scott serves as Managing Editor of our online newsletter Broadband Daily. Scott also oversees the development of all Research Reports & Briefs and manages the Trackers & Projections database. He regularly tracks subscriber growth, market penetration and revenue growth in the markets for high-speed Internet, packet-switched telephony, interactive TV, wireless data and other forms of broadband communications and entertainment. Scott also fields all requests for customized research and works closely with customers to fulfill their market data and analysis needs. Scott has more than 20 years of experience as a writer, editor and researcher. Contact Scott as 301-562-1530, x291 / ssleek@pf.com.
• Mark Uncapher, Senior Vice President and Counsel of the Information Technology Association of America - ITAA provides global public policy, business networking, and national leadership to promote the continued rapid growth of the IT industry. ITAA consists of over 325 corporate members throughout the U.S, ranging from the smallest IT start-ups to industry leaders in the Internet, software, IT services, digital content, systems integration, telecommunications, and enterprise solution fields. As principal staff member for ITAA’s Telecommunications Policy Committee and Internet Policy Committee, he represents leading information technology companies on a wide range of electronic commerce, privacy and telecommunications issues on Capitol Hill and at regulatory agencies, such as the FCC and FTC. As principal staff member for ITAA’s Global Public Policy Committee, Uncapher advocates on behalf of the tech industry for policies advancing industry growth and development and for facilitating international trade and investment in IT products and services. Formerly Counsel to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight (1995-1998.) The subcommittee is chaired by Representative Stephen Horn of California. The subcommittee exercised jurisdiction over a range of government management, federal procurement, information policy, and privacy and information technology issues. Principal staffer for the subcommittee’s hearings, oversight activities and committee report on the problems associated the Year 2000 computer problem. Principal committee and floor staffer for the landmark Electronic Freedom of Information Amendments of 1996 and for the Family Privacy Protection Act (part of the Contract With America.) Other responsibilities on the subcommittee included medical records privacy and electronic data interchange legislation. Immediately prior to joining the committee staff in early 1995, served in the Giuliani administration at the New York City Department of Homeless Services. Between 1983 and 1994, worked in the broadcasting industry as an executive in the broadcast division of Park Communications, the newspaper and broadcasting group and at Sage Broadcasting, which went from start-up to successful IPO. He graduated from George Washington University and the New York Law School and is a member of the New York State and District of Columbia Bar, the Federal Communications Bar Association and the Computer Law Association. He is listed in Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in Media and Communications.
• Barbara Wall, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Gannett Co., Inc. - Barbara Wall is Vice President/Associate General Counsel of Gannett Co., Inc. where she advises Gannett's newspapers, broadcast stations and websites on a variety of issues, including libel and privacy, intellectual property, ethics, and online developments.
  
  Wall joined Gannett in 1985. From 1979 to 1985 she practiced law in New York City with the law firm of Satterlee & Stephens. She has written and lectured on the First Amendment, Intellectual Property rights, and the emerging law of the Internet. Ms. Wall serves on the faculty for the Practising Law Institute’s annual Communications Law program, and is Past Chair of the American Bar Association’s Forum on Communications Law. She also serves on the Newspaper Association of America's Legal Affairs Committee and on the Advisory Board for the Reynolds National Center for Courts and Media at the University of Nevada. This fall she is teaching media law as an adjunct professor at both the American University School of Communication and George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs.
• Brandon C. White - Co-Founder & Chief Angler, Lateral Line, Inc. - Brandon has been an entrepreneur, investor and served in management with a Fortune 100 company. He is currently the Co-Founder and Chief Angler at Lateral Line, Inc., an outdoor clothing company that makes technical year round fishing apparel and gear. Lateral Line operates an online community of over 42,100 anglers on a site called TidalFish.com. In addition Brandon is a Partner at Carbon Prime LLC, a business consulting firm in Baltimore Maryland. Previously, he worked for two prominent venture capital firms in Northern Virginia spanning the enterprise software, healthcare and B to C and B to B sectors of the Internet. He also worked as a Senior Manager at America Online, Inc. in the Broadband and Premium Services Division managing and developing new business units. Brandon started his professional career as a pioneer on the Internet in 1995 as the Founder and CEO of Worldwide Angler, Inc. He built the business plan and led the company from inception through three rounds of financings. WorldwideAngler.com was recognized as the leading recreational fishing interactive media and e-commerce site on the internet by publications such USA Today and for its leading technology by PC Magazine.
• Chris Wolf, Partner, Proskauer Rose LLC. - MSNBC has called Chris Wolf "a pioneer in Internet law." And, indeed, Chris was involved in the earliest matters involving the Internet, helping to make new law for new technologies. A litigation partner in the Washington, DC office of Proskauer Rose LLP, clients turn to Chris for all aspects of Internet risk management and dispute resolution. A recent focus has been on privacy law, online and offline. Chris is editor and lead author of the leading privacy treatise, Proskauer on Privacy, published by the Practising Law Institute. An outgrowth of his work for clients is Chris' substantial extracurricular work in fighting online hate speech, especially the content directed at children. Chris chairs the International Network Against Cyber-Hate. Chris is a 1980 magna cum laude, Order of the Coif graduate of the law school at Washington & Lee University, where he served on Law Review and was a Teaching Fellow. He graduated in 1976, cum laude, from Bowdoin College and was a General Course participant at the London School of Economics & Political Science. He clerked for U.S. District Judge Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr. in Washington, DC before entering private practice.