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Participant BiographiesAizu, Izumi
Born in 1952, Mr. Aizu joined printing industry in 1971 after graduating from high school. In 1976, he moved into international advertising, marketing and public relations business. After spending a few years in the technical communications field, he encountered with the emerging personal computer networking in the United States. In 1986, he co-founded Institute for Networking Design in Tokyo, a think-tank specializing computer conferencing and served as secretary general of Networking Forum, annual national conference on PC networking in Japan from 1987 to 1992. In 1991, he joined GLOCOM (Center for Global Communications), at the International University of Japan. After attending INET 92 in Kobe, he started to study about Internet and promote it in Japan: giving strategic advises to ICT and media industries, national and local government agencies, working on policy and strategic issues in global context with strong focus on Asia. In 1993, he co-founded Institute for Hyper Network Society (IHNS) whose main office is in Oita, a local city in Kyushu Island, and actively promoted community networking with grassroots citizens. In 1997, he moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and found Asia Network Research, an independent research unit dedicated to promote networking in Asia-Pacific, focusing on societal aspects of Internet including global governance and digital divide issues. He worked as Secretary General of Asia & Pacific Internet Association, a trade association representing Internet business community of the region between 1998 and 2000. In April 2000, he moved back to Tokyo where he continues the research work for promoting the Internet in Asia. He participated in Digital Opportunity Task Force, or DOT Force, initiated by the G8 to address "digital divide" issues. His publications in English include:
His books in Japanese include:
(all in Japanese Language only). His translation works from English in to Japanese include:
He received David Rodale Award from Electronic Networking Association in 1988 for his contribution to 'building the global communities'; Plaque of Appreciation from EMPAL (Electronic Mail Pal) of Korea in 1990; Award of Excellence for his book "Evolutionary Network" in 1995 from Telecommunications Advancement Foundation in Japan; and Best Author in 1996 for his paper "Emerging Internet" in Japan's Information Processing Society Journal. Mr. Aizu is a member of Internet Society. He is interested in making proper use of online communication, forming global culture through The Net, linking people to people through heart-to-heart communications in the cyberspace and in the real world. His recent focus is Asia and social development in policy issues. He is married and has four daughters.
Beckemeyer, David
Berry, ScottUntil recently Scott was Chief Marketing Officer for BlazePhotonics, a university spinout based in England that is commercializing "holey" optical fiber. Prior to that he was Director of Global Product Management at Metromedia FIber Network, where he introduced the first fully private wavelength offering to corporate clients. He was a key spokesperson for MFN to the media and analysts in the optical networking industry. Earlier in his career he worked in sales, operations, and technology management roles at Tycom, AT&T Submarine Systems, and Bell Laboratories. Scott holds an ScB in Engineering at Brown University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, and has completed executive education programs at Wharton and Thunderbird.
Bialek, MichaelMichael Bialek has been involved in the sale, deployment, and support of a wide spectrum of IT and telecoms services over the past 18 years. Currently working with G360 Inc., he markets SLA and performance monitoring services, targeted at successful eBusiness websites and enterprise systems. Recently, he led Project Stealth, a proposed submarine fiber-optic network architected to link India and Europe with the Middle East. He served as the Internet sales director for 360networks' submarine network division and VP of Sales for Ellipso, one of the five nascent Big LEOs licensed by the FCC. Mr. Bialek has consulted on a number of projects, including: Cyber-Arabia, an Arabic portal/collocation site; SSI, an insurance industry software development company; SupportLINK, Verizon's first NOC initiative for LAN/WAN; and American Mobile Communication's cellular division, prior to their acquisition by MCI. He has worked with several systems integrators to deliver large-scale data networks for the government and Fortune 100 clients including Prudential, Xerox, Viacom, USPS, GSA, Commonwealth of PA and a number of NYC based financial institutions. Mr. Bialek was a co-founder of Data America, an X25 VAN developed in support of the RBOC's to circumvent inter-LATA restrictions on the transport of data mandated by the MFJ. He also founded Cellular Wholesalers to provide cellular equipment to carriers and independent suppliers. Mr. Bialek's formative years were spent distributing content from his family's DC based record and book store.
Black, JaneJane is a technology reporter at BusinessWeek Online. She covers everything from telecommunications and cable to privacy and digital music. Previously, she worked at BBC News in London and was on the start-up team of CNET's News.com.
Bradner, Scotthttp://www.sobco.com/sob/sob.html
Campbell, RichardDick is a professor of acoustics and audio engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the principal engineer at Bang-Campbell associates, where he undertakes a wide variety of audio and acoustic projects. He's a jolly good Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and a member of the National Council of Acoustical Consultants. Carmichael, Douglasshttp://www.dougcarmichael.com/bio.html
Clark, JudiJudi Clark is currently a law student and President of ManyMedia, a Graphics Communication and Information Services Consultancy, also the force behind WomensWork.org, and a member of the NetAction Advisory Board. She has been an instructor in UCSC's corporate training department, past treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), and served on the Steering Committee for several annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CPF) conferences. She has been involved with many professional and businesswomen's conferences and web sites, and is creator of the Role Model Project for Girls.
Comstedt, AndersAnders Comstedt, CEO of AB Stokab, a telecom network infrastructure provider in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also an advisor to the City in telecom issues, in particular related to deregulation and business development. As a former chairman of the company handling domain names in the .se domain, he has been involved in the Swedish Internet development. Prior to that he has had several executive positions in the telecoms industry. This includes subsidiaries of both Telia, and the Ericsson group, where he worked with networks and fibre optics. He has also been an advisor in business development. He is 52 years old and has an MSEE from Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
Cook, GordonRussian historian was my first career many many years ago. Since March 1992 I have been self employed proprietor of the COOK Report on Internet. Up until about a year ago I wrote mainly about the new internet and telecom infrastructure. I am now trying to focus on the big big picture which means issues of economics and policy are as important and maybe more so than the technology. Looking outside the box and across disciplinary boundaries is the only thing that in my opinion may help us to find a way out of the current disaster.
Crocker, Stevehttp://www.epf.net/PrevMtngs/Oct99/Bios/Crocker.html
Cukier, KennethKenneth Neil Cukier is writing a book about the history of Internet governance. He is the former technology editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong. Previously, he was the European Editor of Red Herring magazine in London and a senior editor in Paris for Communications Week International.
Denton, TimothyI am a lawyer by training and a political philosopher by inclination. I like to think about the political and economic effects of network architectures. I have done telecom law and policy in Ottawa and more recently have been working for Tucows on domain name issues. I read a lot of science and technology books, hate the effects of monopolies, secular or religious, and go hiking in the Gatineau hills near Ottawa when I am not working. I have three kids, two of whom are in university. I enjoy my life.
Elin, GregGreg Elin is a research developer specializing in databases and interactive technologies. Since the early 1990's, he has helped large and small organizations articulate requirements and prototype new technologies. His experience in New York's technology community ranges from NYNEX to dot.coms to non-profits. Since 1998, he has specialized in database and technology services. Mr. Elin has extensive experience working with institutional and distributed data. He holds a Masters degree from the NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program and is currently possessed by the idea of "intimate computing" and developing a new kind of digital photo album.
Evslin, Tomwww.itxc.com/companyinfo/bio-tevslin.html
Forster, JamesSince earning a B.S. degree in computer engineering from Rutgers University in 1976, I have worked in the computer industry, specializing in communication, networks and operating systems. After working for two Silicon Valley startups (Synapse Computers and Plexus Computers) that between them went through more than $50 million before failing I learned something about how startups should NOT be run. I joined a different sort of company with two dozen employees, Cisco, in 1988. I wrote Cisco's first OSI implementation in 1989 (at that time OSI was The Next Big Thing) and subsequently managed engineering development in various areas of router software, including routing protocols, network management, wide-area networking such as X.25, Frame Relay and ISDN. Since 1993 I have helped determine strategy for new technologies such as ATM (at that time ATM was The Next Big Thing). For three years I worked on the system architecture for Cisco’s Cable Router program. I spent a year in the Content Networking group trying to understand the relationship between content and network infrastructure. Recently I've gotten interested in wireless networking. I am an author of RFC-1613, "X.25 Over TCP", and a Cisco Systems Distinguished Engineer.
Freeburg, Thomas A.Tom is currently Director of Motorola's Broadband Wireless Technology Center. Most of his 36-year career at Motorola has been focused on wireless data in one form or another. He has over 45 patents that span many of the basics for cellular-like data transmission (Ardis and CDPD), techniques for achieving RF data transmission rates at 15+Mbps, a new technique for achieving reliable radio coverage at microwave frequencies, and a way to take advantage of directional antennas in portable equipment. Most recently he has championed development of technologies and global standards aimed at wireless ATM communications and development of wireless technologies for Internet access. Tom is a Corporate Vice President and Director, a Dan Noble Fellow and recipient of the Master Innovators award.
Gillmor, Dan
http://www.poptech.org/CTC_2000/Public/gillmorbio.htm
Googin, Roxane I.Roxane operates a private consultancy for portfolio managers covering high technology investment strategy. Because her clients manage billions of dollars, her interest is in keeping them ahead of large, structural, changes in technology and the economy. Her conerns of last year remain in place, namely how will all of this cheap bandwidth be funded. A new concern is how the hundreds of billions of dollars in legacy telecom debt will get paid back, in the face of falling bandwidth prices resulting from a new paradigm. No wonder equipment sales are down. We are really stuck in the mud here, beyond the ""post PC era"", but not ready for the ""collaborative supply chain"" Net-based application era. How do we cross that chasm? What has to happen? Continuing issues impacting the linkage between technology adoption and value creation include: What is the long-term economic model for an industry with an infinitely expandable basic unit of production at low marginal costs on top of a high initial cost of entry? How will the associated decline in incumbent fortunes be handled? How can we collectively protect the pure transport model of the Internet when money can only be made by polluting it with "value added services"? The "problem child" is clearly "Internet economics". However, they must be allowed to continue if we are to leverage the Internet to its potential. How can the socialize the cost of managing layer-one transport without creating another Amtrak?
Gritton, Charles W. K.I am the President and CTO of Broadsword Technologies, a new startup providing platforms for multimedia services to wireless operators. My prior work history includes a stint as the CTO for the NTG division at Tellabs, a Director of Portfolio Planning and Management for Tellabs corporate, an engineering manager at Bell Labs, now Lucent, and CTO/VP of Engineering at Coherent Communications (acquired by Tellabs. I'm dedicated to what might be called the 'idiot savant' network as opposed to a walled-garden "smart" network or the transport-only "stupid" network and the products I've been involved with demonstrate that.
Hofstatter, DavidDavid Hofstatter is Founder and President of CallWave, Inc. After many years driving the innovation process (or lack thereof) within the traditional value chain of telecom carriers and their vendors, in 1998, Mr. Hofstatter stepped outside of the old telecom world, and defined a truely customer-centered approach to telecommunications services at CallWave. He is responsible for the experience of over 7 million on-line and 25 million offline users of CallWave's services, which provide internet-enhanced call delivery of calls which have been missed because a CallWave subscriber is on-line and their line is busy, or because they are away from the phone.Prior to founding CallWave, Mr. Hofstatter was responsible for strategy and advanced product development at Digital Sound Corporation where he pioneered the technology behind web-based unified messaging in 1995 and made early discoveries of the significant market adoption barriers for complex "unified" services. Prior to Digital Sound, Mr. Hofstatter began his career in 1983 with his current business partner Bob Dolan, at Mr. Dolan's first startup, ComDesign, Inc, a manufacturer of packet-based switching equipment. Mr. Hofstatter has a degree in Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Horan, TimTim is a Managing Director heading CIBC's global communication services equity research team. He joined CIBC World Markets over three years ago, and has been a communications services analyst for seven years. Tim researches a broad range of communications companies with a focus on data communications, and the migration of the industry towards horizontal segmentation. He was chosen as a Wall Street Journal All Star Analyst in 2000, 2001 and 2002. Prior to joining the company, Tim was a Senior Equity Analyst at ROBERTSON STEPHENS where he oversaw the telecommunications wireline services team. Prior to 1997, Tim was a research analyst at Smith Barney, a group that was ranked number two among wireline services teams in the 1997 Greenwich Associates Institutional Survey, and a perennial winner of the Institutional Investor analyst survey. Prior to becoming an equity analyst, Tim worked as a civil engineer on various projects in the New York area. Tim received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Rutgers University in 1986 and an MBA degree in Finance, with Beta Gamma Sigma Honors, from Columbia Business School in 1994. His list of direct coverage includes BellSouth, SBC Communications, Verizon, AT&T, Qwest, Sprint, Level 3, ITXC, WebEx, Interland, Ptek and Genesys.
Isenberg, David S.http://www.isen.com/Bio-Res/LongBio.html
Kaminski, PeterI work with collaborative information and communication technologies, and have been an Internet services pioneer as a founder of Yipes Communications, NanoSpace, NETCOM Online, and PDIAL. I am a bridge builder. Five centuries ago, I would have built with stones, spanning rivers to connect people on opposite banks; these days I use computers, software and networks, and span global geography and time. I have deep professional experience in information and communication technologies, user interfaces, interactive technology, natural language, object-oriented systems analysis, digital graphics and sound, and entrepreneurial business.
Kamman, W. StephenSteve Kamman is an Executive Director covering Networking Equipment and Internet Infrastructure. Previously, he was part of the large cap Telecom Services research team. Before joining CIBC, Steve was in Corporate Development at MCI Telecommunications Corp. where he worked on acquisitions and new ventures with a focus on new data technologies. Steve also managed wireless strategy and spectrum auctions at Avantel, an MCI Joint Venture in Mexico. Prior to MCI, Steve worked in the Telecom and Technology practice of Andersen Consulting's strategy consulting arm in New York and Melbourne, Australia. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA Cum Laude in both Economics and History from Yale University.
Lindstrom, AnnieAnnie Lindstrom has been writing about the hottest public network technologies, as well as marketing and regulatory issues concerning the telecommunications industry since 1989. She got her start as an assistant editor and reporter at Telephony Magazine before she moved on to become a staff writer for Communications Week. At those magazines she became an expert at covering data communications technologies and issues. In between her journalistic endeavors, Annie sat on the other side of the interview working as a public relations manager for Telcordia (then Bellcore) between 1995 and 1997. One of her primary responsibilities was coordinating and helping to write the company's award winning 1995 annual review. Finding she'd rather ask the tough questions than hunt down subject matter experts to field them, Annie rejoined the ranks of the telecom industry's top journalists. She signed on as Senior Technology Editor for America's Network Magazine in 1997. She covered broadband technology - with an emphasis on DSL and optical networking for three years. Annie left America's Network in the spring of 2000 to work as a free lance writer from her home office in New York City. She recently relocated to sunny Cape Coral, Florida, which is located on the state's Gulf Coast. She continues to write about the telecom industry with an emphasis on optical networking and components, access technologies, wireless, marketing strategies, and regulatory issues.
Lucky, Robert W.Corporate Vice President, Applied Research, Telcordia; formerly with Bell Labs.
Maffei, AndrewAndrew Maffei is a communications specialist who has worked at Woods Hole for the past nineteen years, helping innovative oceanographers and engineers to use networks of all sorts to do their research. His most recent work, NEPTUNE, is a collaborative project aimed at installing a multi-Gigabit Ethernet backbone around a tectonic plate, in 2500 meters of water off the west coast of the US and Canada. This is being done to enable the long-term (30 year), multi-disciplinary study of a single chunk of ocean. He also runs a project called SeaNet that spaoratically connects oceanographic research vessels to the Internet.
Mattioli, SteveSteve Mattioli - President, CEO of YottaYotta, The Yottabyte NetStorage Company: Prior to co-founding YottaYotta, Steve served as President of Seek [Storage] Systems. Previously, he was Senior VP Marketing and Sales for Applied Voice Technology. Earlier, he held senior management positions with TriData Networking and NCR Data Communications. Steve earned a B.S. and an M.E.C. from Arizona State University.
Michalski, Jerryhttp://www.sociate.com/About_Jerry_Michalski/about_jerry_michalski.shtml
Miller, GardnerAirplane House Manager and Historian, dabbler in many things. Gardner's biography is most enjoyable as told by him personally in the manner of colorful stories intermingled with lively discussion at our abundant, conversation-rich BigHook meals. Ask him about the time he and a fellow diver barely survived the near death-jaw clutches of a hungry shark . . .
Nanda, Suchithttp://suchitnanda.org/profile/biodata.html
Njoo, AlAl Njoo is an entrepreneur based in singapore and palo alto. His Asian investments include petrochemicals and financial services with MNC partners like BP and Merrill Lynch respectively. He's seeking crossborder (US-Asia) investment opportunities in the telcom/ISP/technology area. Al is a Wharton fellow, a member of the Economic Forum - Davos, and AIMR (Assoc for Investment Mgt & Research US).
Odlyzko, AndrewAndrew Odlyzko is Director of the interdisciplinary Digital Technology Center and an Assistant Vice President for Research at the University of Minnesota. Prior to assuming that position in 2001, he devoted 26 years to research and research management at Bell Telephone Laboratories, AT&T Bell Labs, and AT&T Labs, as that organization evolved and changed its name. He has written over 150 technical papers in computational complexity, cryptography, number theory, combinatorics, coding theory, analysis, probability theory, and related fields, and has three patents. The projects he has managed have been in diverse areas, such as security, formal verification methods, parallel and distributed computation, and auction technology. In recent years he has also been working on electronic publishing, electronic commerce, and economics of data networks, and is the author of such widely cited papers as "Tragic loss or good riddance: The impending demise of traditional scholarly journals," "The bumpy road of electronic commerce," "Paris Metro Pricing for the Internet," "Content is not king," and "The history of communications and its implications for the Internet." He has an honorary doctorate from Univ. Marne la Vallee and serves on editorial boards of over 20 technical journals, as well as on several advisory and supervisory bodies. His email address is odlyzko@umn.edu, and all his recent papers as well as further information can be found on his home page at http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko.
Oristano, MatthewMatt Oristano has spent his career in building communications and technology systems for consumer use. Most recently, he sold his high speed wireless internet venture called SpeedChoice to Sprint Corporation. SpeedChoice was the first broadband fixed wireless operator to provide mass residential service. Prior to a decade's work developing the wireless technology that became SpeedChoice, Oristano built the first American owned cable TV system in Great Britain. In the early eighties, Oristano owned and operated cable systems in the United States, and tried to create a wide area broadband data communications system in 1984, before it was cool (or even economical). Creative interpretation by the competing telephone company of their own tariff stifled the economics, and Oristano was forced to wait for the Internet to create the economic infrastructure for such a network to be successful. Oristano has a degree in physics from Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, and lives in Connecticut.
Pepper, RobertRobert Pepper has been Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy (OPP) at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) since December 1989. Under Pepper's leadership, OPP is responsible for policy questions that cut across traditional industry and institutional boundaries, especially those arising from the development of new technologies. At OPP, Pepper's responsibilities have included leading teams implementing provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; assessing the deployment of broadband technologies; assessing the development of the Internet and electronic commerce; developing the framework for digital television; designing and implementing the first spectrum auctions in the United States; developing more market-based spectrum policies; assessing competition in the video marketplace; and assessing the impact of the development of the Internet on traditional communications policy structures. Before joining the FCC, Pepper was Director of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies. He also has been Director of Domestic Policies and Acting Associate Administrator at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and developed a program on communications, computers, and information at the National Science Foundation. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also received his doctorate.
Petrovic, MarkDr. Mark S. Petrovic is Vice President of Research and Development at Earthlink, Inc. Before joining Earthlink, Mark served in Operations at Sprint Communications Corporation's consumer Internet group in Kansas City, MO. Prior to that he served as Visiting Scientist at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. He holds Bachelor and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in physics from Oklahoma State University.
Prytula, RichardRichard Prytula is President and Founding Managing Partner of TechnoCap Inc, a venture capital company based in Montreal. Richard is a director of YottaYotta Inc., Hyperchip Inc. and BigBangwidth Inc.
Reed, David P.Dr. Reed is, by inclination, a designer of large-scale systems structures and concepts - algorithms, protocols, architectures, business models, and processes. His career includes 15 years as a student and professor of computer science and engineering at MIT, 10 years leading advanced commercial personal computer software innovation as v.p. R&D/chief scientist at Software Arts and Lotus Development Corp., 4 years as a senior scientist at Interval Research Corp., and 4 years as an independent technology strategy advisor and consultant to industry in areas related to computing and communications infrastructure and applications. He is known for key early contributions to the architecture of the Internet in the '70's. He has made major contributions to the design, implementation, and technology strategy of a variety of very successful commercial software and systems products.
Robles, Frankhttp://www.oakstoneventures.com/team/index.html
Rybeck, Charles "Chick"Charles Rybeck is a Managing Director with Benchmarking Partners-an industry analysis, strategy, and software firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rybeck leads the Benchmarking Partners program for supporting champions in the process of mobilizing their enterprises for strategic initiatives. Working with both the buyers and sellers of complex solutions, Benchmarking Partners has developed best practices in each stage of the opportunity lifecyle-from identification to realization. Benchmarking Partners offers services and software that support and accelerate the Championship Mobilization process. Rybeck has extensive experience with cross-industry best practices, cross-functional process improvement, and cross-enterprise business transformation initiatives. He was part of the team that founded Benchmarking Partners in 1994. Prior to joining Benchmarking Partners, Rybeck founded Spine Protocol Systems, a firm consulting to health insurers on the use of information technology for implementing clinical protocols and guidelines. Rybeck was the founder of and lead clinician with the Providence Health Partnership (now the Rhode Island Spine Center). Rybeck's industry research and analyst work began in economics at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. and continued in biomechanics, medical, and healthcare policy research. Since 1998 his research and writing have focused on the power of Internet-based enterprise and inter-enterprise solutions to enable innovation. Rybeck received his BA from Brown University in political economics and BS and DC (Doctor of Chiropractic) degrees from the National College of Chiropractic. He received board certification by the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians. Rybeck is part of the curriculum development team for the semester-long graduate courses Benchmarking Partners teaches at Wharton, MIT, and the University of Chicago on the CEO-Team's e-business agenda.
Shapiro, GaryGary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the U. S. trade association representing over 1000 companies in the consumer electronics industry and owning and producing the world's largest consumer technology event, the International Consumer Electronics Show. With more than 1.2 million net square feet, in 2001 the CES was the largest show of any kind in the Americas. It attracts over 100,000 trade attendees each January to Las Vegas. Mr. Shapiro also chairs the Home Recording Rights Coalition as well as the Center for Exhibition Industry Research Foundation. He also sits on the CEA Executive Board, the GWSAE Board, the George Mason University Board of Visitors, The George Mason University Law School Tech Center Executive Board of Advisors, the Board of Directors of the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives, and the North American Television Program Executives (NATPE) HDTV Consortium Steering Committee. Mr. Shapiro has been an active leader in the development and launch of HDTV. He co-founded and chaired the HDTV Model Station and has served on the Board and Executive Committee of the Advanced Television Test Center (ATTC). He is also the creator of and a charter inductee to the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers. Mr. Shapiro has led the manufacturers'battle to preserve the legality of recording equipment and the consumer battle to protect video rental rights and the right to record. As Chairman of the Home Recording Rights Coalition, Mr. Shapiro has helped ensure the growth of the video rental market, VCRs, home computers and audio recording equipment, including MP3 technology. Mr. Shapiro has been a keynote speaker at numerous conferences and conventions, and published articles on legal, lobbying and electronics issues. His speech titled "Public Access, The First Amendment and IP" was featured in the September 15, 2000, issue of Vital Speeches. Mr. Shapiro served as a member of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Commission on Information Technology. This Commission proposed, and the Commonwealth passed legislation allowing commerce on the Internet. Since then, over 17 states and several countries have passed legislation based on the Virginia model. He has served as a judge for Discover Magazine's Technology Awards since 1992. He has also been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a "mastermind" for his initiative in helping to create the Industry Cooperative for Ozone Layer Protection (ICOLP), founded to create industry cooperation in eliminating ozone-depleting solvents. Prior to joining the association, Mr. Shapiro was an associate at the law firm of Squire, Sanders and Dempsey. He has also worked on Capitol Hill, as an assistant to a Member of Congress. Mr. Shapiro received a juris doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in Economics and Psychology from the State University of New York, Binghamton.
Shirky, ClayPrior to starting his own consulting practice, Mr. Shirky was Partner for Technology and Product Strategy at The Accelerator Group, an investment firm, and Professor of New Media at Hunter College, where he taught in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. Mr Shirky was the CTO of Site Specific, an NYC-based web design firm, and following its acquisition by CKS, worked as a writer, programmer, and consultant with CKS Group, News Corp, Barnes and Noble, iVillage, Ziff-Davis, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Eisnor Interactive and others. Before there was a Web, he wrote and edited books for Ziff-Davis Press, authoring a book on e-mail and another on network culture, and editing the first book written on HTML. Before that he was a director and lighting designer of avant-garde theater in New York City, working with the Wooster Group and directing his own company, Hard Place theater, which produced and performed ""non-fiction theater"", pieces created in rehearsal from collages of found sources.
Stansberry, PorterPorter is the editor of Porter Stanberry's Investment Advisory, a monthly financial newsletter newsletter, and the founder of Pirate Investor, an independent financial publishing company.
Sterling, JosephJoseph B. Sterling is the founder of Sterling Insights, Inc. which deploys a national network of facilitators, designers, and organizational development experts to facilitate vision, insight and transformation for individuals, teams and organizations. Clients like Mainspring/IBM, Credit Suisse First Boston, and CapGemini Ernst & Young all rave about Sterling Insights ability to help them achieve breakthrough results. Sterling Insights is headquartered in Alpine, CA on a 13 acre site with a 3800 square foot facility designed and outfitted to accelerate group collaboration, creativity, and speed. Joe has over 10 years experience facilitating large and small groups. He leads the Strategic Modeling engagements and Graphic Facilitation/Visual Synthesis projects for Sterling Insights. Joe is the primary architect of the ""Free Agent Ecosystem"" network that gives Sterling Insights it's national reach (www.freeagentecosystem.com). In addition to group facilitation, Joe has a special ability to visually synthesize group dialogues, as they happen, into lively and evocative images that amplify participant engagement, understanding, and inquiry. This skill has been utilized by leaders of business and military organizations.
Stout, TedFor over 30 years, Ted Stout has provided strategic and tactical guidance to those leading the convergence of emerging technologies with people, process and place; i.e., real world business operations and sourcing relationships. He works for both corporations (and their internal, and extended supply chains and ecosystems), as well as for regional economic development and infrastructure public/private initiatives (city, state, nation, multi-national). Some of his specialty areas include technology transfer and diffusion, economic and capital strategies, matching education and R&D outputs with profitable businesses, Trust and security, healthcare/design/and longevity, Logistics, global supply chain and alliance development, sourcing and Infra-Services. Previous to founding ROI in 1981, Ted ran a $2.4 billion operating asset portfolio (and $390MM annual operating budget) for the largest subsidiary of one of the largest corporations in the world. Friends and clients have called him a Professional Generalist, Economic Therapist and Improvisational Strategist. Mr. Stout is an active writer, publishes his own column, and lectures extensively on Corporate Infrastructure Management and new Business Ecosystems, the Canalization of Supply Chains, Building Real-Time Companies, Real-Time Logistics, and human performance in the office of the 21st Century. Ted Stout is the founder of three design and technology companies and of the "Operation Save our Schools for Mankind" public/private partnership. He invented the "Corporate Infrastructure & Resources," "Logistics City Services" and "Virtual Logistics Network" business models and their technological frameworks, has won numerous awards for his furniture designs, and designed and built two homes. Ted's family background is in architecture & urban planning, commercial construction and project management. He was first introduced to computers at the tender age of 5 by his uncle, who worked on the Air Force's Strategic Air Command computer. He has been unduly affected ever since. Currently, Ted acts as a local, multi-national and international advisor to numerous corporations, industry associations, public organizations, and regional economic development and government authorities.
Thatcher, Jonathan
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Turner, BroughBrough is senior vice president, CTO and co-founder NMS Communications. My current focus is on technology and business strategy for NMS. I also serve on boards of advisors of several high tech companies including Pingtel, StarGen and Avian Communications in the telecom field. As a company founder I've worked in marketing, sales and operations, but my background is as an electrical engineer (BSEE from MIT in 1971) and my interests remain centered on technology and business (plus physics, cosmology and evolution, on the side). In the 70s I worked in analytical instrumentation (FT-IR and NMR spectrocopy) and then biomedical instruments (differential white blood cell analysers). In the mid-80s, I focused on communications productivity tools for PCs (a product called Watson which was also OEMed as HP's Officetalk). In the early 90s, I focused on computer telephony where I invented the MVIP Bus (a telephony standard for PCs), was a driving force behind the ECTF's H.110/H.110 TDM switching standards and a major contributor to the development of the CompactPCI industry. I write articles for a variety of trade publications and was a regular columnist for Communications Solutions magazine until its recent demise. I also speak at various trade shows (Supercomm, VON, IN-IP World Forum, China DSL, CT Expo Asia, etc.), mostly on behalf of NMS business interests. ... and here's a personal statement to help others pigeonhole me While I've recently seen my NMS stock as high as $78 (summer 2000) and below $2 (today), I remain an enthusiastic proponent of communications -- as a business, a career and as an industry of long term benefit to mankind. Communications has always a prime enabler of human progress. It was our ability to speak that originally separated humans from other primates. And whether it's written language, the printing press, telegraphy or television, each subsequent advance in communications has helped mankind develop economically, politically and culturally, by exposing us to new ideas and by enabling person-to-person collaboration. Obviously there's a mess in telecom today which includes a lot of telecom assets that need to be written down or written off. But writing off mistakes and starting anew is something our economy does reasonably well. Meanwhile, the number of mobile phone subscribers worldwide continues to increase, the number of Internet subscribers continues to increase, and total Internet traffic is growing at perhaps 2X per year. More importantly, the worldwide proliferation of mobile phones and the Internet is bringing advanced communication capabilities to every corner of our planet. I can barely guess at the benefits this will produce for mankind in the coming decades.
Weinberger, Davidhttp://www.hyperorg.com/evident/bio.html
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