Speakers
TPS: Broadband Innovation, which took place May 11, 2009 at the San Mateo Marriott hotel, offered an in-depth look at best practices and programs for improving broadband access and adoption in the United States. You can learn more about the speakers who participated below, and videos of conference sessions are available in the Media Vault. Speaker Bios Geoff Daily (Emcee and Session Host) Geoff Daily is a technology journalist, Internet entrepreneur and broadband activist. He writes about the business of online video for StreamingMedia.com, and the deployment of broadband networks, development of broadband applications, and proper role of policy on App-Rising.com. Geoff's helped organize panels and conferences and has addressed audiences on these topics across the country. He consults with applications developers, fiber deployers, and government officials on how to work together to maximize the value of these networks. And he advocates for achieving the goal of 100% availability, 100% adoption, and 100% use of broadband in the U.S. Raymond Blair 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 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-verseSM 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
Editor
App-Rising.com
Director, Advanced Networking
IBM Global Services 
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.
National Policy Director,
Connected Nation
Senior Technology Associate,
The Children's Partnership
Enterprise Account Manager, State of California,
Intel
Sr. Product Marketing Manager,
Juniper Networks
Director of Broadband Marketing,
Infinera
Vice President,
One Economy California
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 Bill Hunt is vice president of public policy for Level 3 Communications, where he is responsible for regulatory and government affairs in North America and Europe. Prior to joining Level 3 in February 1999, Mr. Hunt worked with MCI Communications Corp. He joined MCI in 1994 in Washington, DC, and later joined the state regulatory group in Denver in March 1996. Paul Kapustka 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! Rep. Zoe Lofgren 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. 
Vice President, Public Policy,
Level 3 Communications
Mr. Hunt received his Juris Doctor in 1991 from Western New England College School of Law in Springfield, MA. He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1984.
Editor and Publisher,
SideCut Reports
Congresswoman, California's 16th District,
U.S. House of Representatives
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
Chairman and CTO,
M2Z Networks
