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Raymond Blair is director, advanced networking for IBM Global Technology Services. He leads the task force that developed the business case for IBM's involvement in the Broadband over Power Line (BPL) market and became the leader of that initiative within IBM. His responsibilities also include wireless advanced technologies.

Mr. Blair joined IBM in sales in 1979 and handled a number of sales and sales management assignments. In 1992, he moved into development in the Personal Systems Line of Business and was part of the task force established by Lou Gerstner which developed the "network centric" strategy, which later was, renamed the "e-business" strategy.

In 1996, Mr. Blair was named Director of e-Procurement and was part of an executive team that rolled out e-Procurement solutions internal to IBM. In 2000, he returned to sales as the executive in charge of e-Procurement sales, building a global sales team to leverage IBM's internal success. At the end of 2001, he was asked to head up the IBM Global Security Solutions and Business Development Group and tasked to build a cohesive sales and marketing capability across the company.

In 2003, Mr. Blair joined IBM Global Services in charge of Security Alliances where he focused on developing leading edge partnerships with leaders in the industry to position IBM as major player in both the IT and homeland security services. In 2006, he was elected co-chair of the United Power Line Council (UPLC), which is part of the Utilities Telecom Council focused on promoting BPL technology.

Chris Boyer
Assistant Vice President of Internet & Technology Policy
AT&T

Chris Boyer is Assistant Vice President of Internet & Technology Policy for AT&T. Mr. Boyer is responsible for developing and coordinating AT&T's strategic policy initiatives related to emerging services and technology with a particular focus on Internet Protocol (IP) based Internet and video services. Mr. Boyer recently moved from the company's former headquarters in San Antonio to the Bay Area.

Prior to this role, Mr. Boyer was AT&T's dedicated policy resource supporting AT&T's business units involved in the company's nationwide efforts to expand fiber optics into neighborhoods to deliver Internet Protocol (IP)-based television, faster high-speed Internet access and voice services to consumers under the AT&T U-verse^SM brand. In this role Mr. Boyer has represented AT&T before numerous external audiences as a subject matter expert on these initiatives.

Mr. Boyer joined AT&T in 1993 and has held various positions in AT&T's corporate public policy, network planning and engineering, network regulatory, wholesale marketing and network services departments including extensive experience working on AT&T's broadband, VoIP and IPTV initiatives.

Mr. Boyer holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas and an MBA from the University of Houston in Houston, TX. He and his wife Marnie have a son, Matthew, and a daughter, Sydney, and reside in San Ramon, CA.

Phillip Brown
National Policy Director,
Connected Nation

Phillip Brown serves as Connected Nation's national policy director, a senior management position responsible for leading the major activities associated with government relations and affairs activities for Connected Nation. Mr. Brown directs the development and communication of public policy that supports and furthers the mission of the Connected Nation partnership. In addition, he manages the tracking, analysis and reporting of external public policy that affects the organization and its strategic partners.

Prior to joining Connected Nation, Mr. Brown was the director of government relations for the Association of Public Television Stations (APTS). At APTS, he played a pivotal role in the strategy and lobbying efforts for America's public television stations. Prior to joining APTS, he spent over six years working for the U.S. House of Representatives, serving the Sixth Congressional District of Kentucky and the Fifth Congressional District of New Jersey as a Staff Assistant, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, District Director and Deputy Chief of Staff and Press Secretary.

He received a bachelor's degree from Centre College in International Relations with an emphasis in the international conventional arms trade in 1996.

Elaine Carpenter
Senior Technology Associate,
The Children's Partnership

Elaine Carpenter serves as a policy analyst and strategist for The Children's Partnership's technology programs. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Before joining TCP, Elaine worked as a communications and public policy consultant for a variety of clients, helping them to extend technology to underserved communities.

Formerly, she served as Chief of Staff at the United States Telecom Association (USTA) and as Director of corporate communications, planning and public policy at Aliant Communications, a mid-sized telecom company with headquarters in Lincoln, Nebraska. She has served on the boards of dozens of commissions, foundations, and non-profit organizations.

Gregg Descheemaeker
Enterprise Account Manager, State of California,
Intel

Gregg Descheemaeker is responsible for accelerating the adoption of next-generation Intel technologies into the state of California's complex IT infrastructure. His scope of responsibilities include architecture influence for mobile and desktop PCs, server infrastructure and broadband initiatives, as well as driving Intel's technology strategy in healthcare, education, transportation and energy in California.

Previously, Mr. Descheemaeker held several positions, including director of client management for Intel Solution Services, responsible for managing Intel's consulting business with Fortune 200 customers in the U.S. He was also with Intel Online Services (Intel's data center hosting business), the blade server reference platform team, and Intel's NetStructure product group. Before joining Intel in 1999, he was responsible for sales and design of local and wide area networks with a regional system integrator throughout the 1990's.

Tom DiMicelli
Sr. Product Marketing Manager,
Juniper Networks

Tom DiMicelli is a senior product marketing manager at Juniper Networks with responsibility for broadband routing products and broadband service initiatives. Additionally, Mr. DiMicelli represents Juniper at a variety of industry events and standards organizations and has authored several published industry articles and white papers.

Previously, he was a senior product manager at Sycamore Networks, where he led Sycamore's standards based Optical Control Plane and Optical Ethernet development efforts. He also represented Sycamore at the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) and the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). Prior to Sycamore Networks, Mr. DiMicelli also held a variety of sales, marketing and business development roles with Integral Access Inc. (now Telco Systems) and Cabletron Systems, Inc. (now Enterasys Corp.); which followed his military service. He is a graduate of William Paterson University.

Jeff Ferry
Director of Broadband Marketing,
Infinera

Jeff Ferry is director of broadband marketing at Infinera. Prior to that, he was VP of marketing at optical components startup Yafo Networks and director of communications at Nortel Networks. He has degrees in economics from Harvard and the London School of Economics.

Alan Greenlee
Vice President,
One Economy California

Alan Greenlee directs One Economy's technology-led community development efforts in California. Since joining One Economy in 2002, Mr. Greenlee has played a major role in the Bring IT Home Campaign, which resulted in the adoption of policies by 42 states that encourage the provision of high-speed Internet service in affordable housing units at no cost to residents. In California, he directly helped to connect approximately 5,500 low income households to no-cost, broadband.

Over his 19 year career, Mr. Greenlee has implemented on-the-ground programs, and has more than 15 years of advocacy experience at the local, state and federal levels. His experience includes working as a congressional staff member in Washington, DC, as a legislative representative for a major banking trade association and secondary mortgage market company, as the director of public policy for The Enterprise Foundation, and technology consultant to affordable housing developers.

Allen S. Hammond IV
Director, Broadband Institute of California
Professor, Santa Clara Law

Allen Hammond holds the Phil and Bobbie Sanfilippo Chair at Santa Clara University. A professor at Santa Clara Law since 1998, he serves as director of the Broadband Institute of California, is former President of the Alliance for Public Technology, director of the Law and Public Policy Program at the Center for Science Technology and Society at Santa Clara University, and is a board member and past chair of the AT&T Telecommunications Consumer Advisory Panel.

He is the author of many articles and the editor, with Barbara S. Cherry and Stephen S. Wildman, of Making Universal Service Policy: Enhancing the Process Through Multidisciplinary Evaluation (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999). He earned his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, his M.A. from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, and his B.A. from Grinnel College.

Joanne Hovis
President,
Columbia Telecommunications Corp.

Joanne Hovis is President and Principal Analyst of Columbia Telecommunications Corporation. Ms. Hovis is an analyst and attorney with a background in communications and commercial litigation. At CTC, she heads up the company's work for non-profit agencies and the Federal Government. She also oversees CTC's educational offerings and training programs.

Ms. Hovis has served as co-author of extensive white papers for government agencies on communications topics, including the Internal Revenue Service, and non-profit organizations, including the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, the William Penn Foundation, the Center for Digital Democracy, and the American Civil Liberties Union. Ms. Hovis also oversees all ongoing research and analysis for local government clients and frequently serves as project manager on large projects such as the telecommunications network that CTC planned and implemented for the City of New York in the 1990s.

Ms. Hovis received her Juris Doctor, with honors, from the University of Chicago Law School in 1994. She received her B.A., with distinction, in Political Science and Hebrew & Semitic Studies from the University of Wisconsin--Madison in 1990. She is a member of the bars of the State of Illinois and the District of Columbia. Ms. Hovis is also a member of the Board of Directors of NATOA, the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors.

Bill Hunt
Vice President, Public Policy,
Level 3 Communications

As editor, publisher and CEO of SideCut Reports, Paul Kapustka continues a career trying to make literal sense out of complex computer and networking-related subject matter, a quest that began in earnest 17 years ago when he joined Unix Today! as a networking beat reporter.

Most recently, Mr. Kapustka served as managing editor and staff writer for the GigaOM and NewTeeVee blogs; prior to that, he was vice president for online content at Pulvermedia, where he produced the VONosphere news site. Old-school networking industry types may remember him from his numerous editorial posts inside the CMP Media empire, most recently as editor of the Networking Pipeline and Advanced IP Pipeline web sites, or further back in stints at InternetWeek, CommunicationsWeek, Open Systems Today! and Unix Today!

Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing the 16th District of California, which is based in San Jose. A lifelong Bay Area resident, Rep. Lofgren earned her bachelor's degree at Stanford University and her law degree at Santa Clara University.

She served for eight years as a staff assistant to Congressman Don Edwards, in both his San Jose and Washington, D.C., offices. As partner at the San Jose firm Webber & Lofgren--where she practiced immigration law--she was elected to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors in 1980 and served for 14 years. Rep. Lofgren also taught immigration law at Santa Clara University School of Law from 1977 to 1980. In 1994, Edwards decided to retire after 32 years in Congress, and Lofgren won the Democratic nomination for the seat; she was the only freshman Democrat from west of the Rocky Mountains elected that year.

Rep. Lofgren is the chair of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. She is also a member of the Judiciary Committee, where she chairs the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law. In addition, she serves on the Homeland Security Committee and the Committee on House Administration where she chairs the Subcommittee on Elections. Rep. Lofgren is also chair of the California Democratic Congressional Delegation (CDCD). The delegation consists of the 33 Democratic members of the House of Representatives from California. It is the most diverse delegation in the House and outnumbers all other state House delegations.

Milo Medin is founder, chief technology officer (CTO) and chairman of M2Z Networks' board of directors. Together with his partner John Muleta, Mr. Medin founded M2Z Networks in 2005. Prior to founding M2Z Networks, Mr. Medin was co-founder and CTO of @Home Networks, which pioneered the deployment of a nationwide cable modem services. As CTO of @Home, Mr. Medin designed the broadband service architecture and helped revolutionize broadband access by working with cable carriers and equipment manufacturers to establish the technology standards for the industry.

Previously, Mr. Medin was a Project Manager at the NASA Ames Research Center. He began his technology career at Science Applications, Inc. where he programmed supercomputers for defense program activities at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, under contract to the Defense Nuclear Agency.

Renowned as an expert in network and communications technologies, Mr. Medin has participated in two National Academy of Sciences panels on telecommunications technology and policy. His expertise is frequently sought by government and State committees. In November 2006, Mr. Medin was named to California's Broadband Task Force by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Dr. O'Connor is a nationally recognized expert in the fields of political communication and telecommunications policy and applications. She is the author of numerous publications in both of these areas. She served eight years, by appointment of the Governor, the California Legislature, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction as chair of the California Educational Technology Committee. The committee had an annual budget of $16 million and was charged with infusing technology in California's K-12 schools.

She also served for the 9 years as the elected chair of the Alliance for Public Technology, a Washington, DC, non-profit organization with over 250 members and an annual budget of $1million, devoted to building constituencies on information age issues. Dr. O'Connor and five other consumer leaders founded the Alliance in 1989. She is the former chair of the California Public Broadcasting Commission by appointment of the Governor and founder of KXPR-FM, Sacramento's Public Radio Station.

Dr. O'Connor was appointed by FCC chairman Al Sikes and reappointed twice by Chairman Reed Hundt to represent consumers on the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council. She served as one of eleven persons on Bellcore's Advisory Board and is one of 15 consumer leaders on Pacific Telesis' Consumer Advisory Panel. She also co-chaired California Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin's California Educational Technology Industry Task Force in 1996, which has developed and is building support with the Business Roundtable of California and the California Chamber of Commerce to deploy an ambitious technology plan for K-12 schools.

Emy Tseng currently works for the City and County of San Francisco as project director of Digital Inclusion Programs - a citywide initiative to promote broadband adoption and digital literacy in San Francisco's underserved communities.

Previously, Ms. Tseng was a grantmaker for ZeroDivide (formerly Community Technology Foundation of California) and the Ford Foundation on communications policy. She has advised and consulted for public interest organizations including Consumers Union and NYCwireless.

At MIT, she conducted research on broadband policy, municipal networking and fiber to the home. She previously worked for eleven years in the software industry as an engineer, project manager and software architect. She has a masters of science degree in technology and policy from MIT, and a bachelor of science degree in math/physics from Brown University.

Susan Walters
SVP,
California Emerging Technology Fund

Susan Walters joins the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) after working as the regional director of community relations for Citibank in Greater Southern California. Prior to Citibank, she operated a small consulting practice in corporate social responsibility. The work focused on building strategic partnerships between nonprofit organizations and corporations, strategic planning, communications and marketing.

Ms. Walters has worked in myriad areas ranging from telecommunications policy, disability access to multimedia projects. Examples of her work include designing a highly successful technology job training program for low income adults and youth, creating a brand strategy for a buy local food campaign and marketing programs to reach emerging markets. Her firm's clients included: AOL, Verizon, Microsoft, Independent Television Service (ITVS), San Francisco Giants, Freddie Mac Foundation, W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the FoodRoutes Network. Susan has held senior positions in Communications and Marketing with Odwalla and Pacific Bell.

Prior to her work in the private sector, she served as a senior staff member to Willie L. Brown, Jr. during his tenure as Speaker of the California Assembly. She is an alumna of the Coro Fellows Program, and received a bachelor of science degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a masters of public policy degree from Claremont University. She serves of the Board of Directors for CD Tech, Bay Area Video Coalition, World Institute on Disability and the Center for Accessible Technology.

Phil Winterbottom
CTO, Broadband Access
Ericsson

Phil is Chief Technical Officer responsible for the system architecture and detailed engineering design for Ericsson's Broadband Access products and was co-founder of Entrisphere, the U.S.-based access company acquired by Ericsson.

Mr. Winterbottom brings over 10 years of applied industrial experience in computing and communication. Over the course of his career, his innovative, pragmatic system designs have led to developments of several communications software, access, and switching systems. Prior to Entrisphere, he was the lead architect and engineer for a truly converged (voice and data) network element developed by Lucent Technologies' Internetworking Systems business unit. While at Bell Labs, he became a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and was acknowledged as a Bell Labs Fellow for sustained contributions in distributed computing and converged packet-switching systems.

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