While pursuing his graduate studies, Kim Ambler held the position of Telecommunications Coordinator for NARUC's (National Association of Regulatory & Utility Commissioners) Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners. 

From 1980 to 1985, Kim Ambler served as an officer in U. S. Naval Intelligence.  In 1978-1979, he worked as a writer, camera man, and post production assistant for Brian De Palma's "Home Movies."

Mr. Ambler holds a Master of Science in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado and a Bachelor's degree in history and film from Sarah Lawrence College. 
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• 1999: Defining the standard for true broadband, i.e. 10/10 & 100/100 Mbit Ethernet to the home (Swedish Broadband Company / B2) 
• 2000: Launching a service infrastructure platform (BRIKKS) for mobile and broadband Internet services, a concept and software that has been adopted by some of the leading Scandinavian Service Providers.
• 2004: Setting a new standard for broadband connections to the home, as a world first to launch 1 Gbps (1000 Mbps) as a commercial service.
• 2005: a successful sale of B2 to Telenor with a great return on investment to all mayor shareholders (with a valuation of more than 1 800 € per broadband user).
• Establishing a de facto standard for Video on Demand in Scandinavia with more than 90% market share (with the BRIKKS MEDIA SYSTEM / BMS).
• 2006: as Chairman of ViaEuropa, he took the decision to build the worlds first citywide Gigabit to the Home + Wifi 540 Mbps network, in Lund Sweden.
• 2007: RELAKKS, the world’s premier supplier of anonymous broadband connections, giving a large group of customers unfiltered IP-access over encrypted connections worldwide.
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Scott Bradner has been involved in the design, operation and use of data networks at Harvard University since the early days of the ARPANET. He was involved in the design of the original Harvard data networks, the Longwood Medical Area network (LMAnet) and New England Academic and Research Network (NEARnet). He was founding chair of the technical committees of LMAnet, NEARnet and the COrporation for Research and Enterprise Network (CoREN).

Mr. Bradner served in a number of roles in the IETF.  He was the co-director of the Operational Requirements Area (1993-1997), IPng Area (1993-1996), Transport Area (1997-2003) and Sub-IP Area (2001-2003). He was a member of the IESG (1993-2003) and was an elected trustee of the Internet Society (1993-1999), where he currently serves as the Secretary to the Board of Trustees.  Scott is also a trustee of the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN).

Mr. Bradner is the University Technology Security Officer in the Harvard University Office of the Provost.  He tries to help the University community deal with technology-related privacy and security issues. He also provides technical advice and guidance on issues relating to the Harvard data networks and new technologies to Harvard's CIO. He founded the Harvard Network Device Test Lab, is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, a weekly columnist for Network World, and does a bit of independent consulting on the side.
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Robin Chase is founder and CEO of Meadow Networks, a consulting company that provides transportation solutions for the new world by applying innovative wireless technologies to solve problems of congestion, infrastructure financing, and car dependency.

Robin is also founder and CEO of GoLoco, an online ridesharing community, that uses social networking, online payment mechanisms, and sophisticated mapping to make sharing car travel easy and rewarding.

She is also founder and former CEO of Zipcar, which she led to become the largest and fastest-growing car-sharing company in North America. Zipcar's use of the Internet and wireless technology enables rental cars to emulate personal cars. The company's disruptive technology facilitates secure vehicle entry and authorized payment processing of hundreds of thousands of driving transactions in real-time, giving its members on-demand access to cars by-the-hour. Robin is also known for the evangelical virtual community she created among the members.

Robin lectures widely and has been frequently featured in the major media including the Today Show, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Fast Company, Wired, and Time magazines, as well as several books on entrepreneurship. She has received many awards, including the Massachusetts Governor's Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit, InfoWorld's Top 100 Innovators of 2001, and cited as a Trendsetter by Fast Company in its 2002 Champions of Innovation awards.

Robin graduated from Wellesley College and MIT's Sloan School of Management, and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University.
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Barbara A. Cherry is Professor of Telecommunications at Indiana University. Dr. Cherry brings to her research an interdisciplinary academic background integrated with telecommunications industry experience. Prior to joining the faculty at Indiana University, she was Senior Counsel with the Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis of the FCC. Prior to joining the FCC, she was Associate Professor and Associate Director of the James H. and Mary B. Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law at Michigan State University. Prior to entering academia, Barbara also worked on public policy issues while employed with Ameritech and AT&T. Barbara holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.A. in Economics and Law from Harvard University while recipient of a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Economics, and a B.S. in Economics summa cum laude from the University of Michigan.
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Pip Coburn founded Coburn Ventures, an organization that puts its knowledge about "change" to work in the realm of technology, telecom, and media investing. On August 19, 2005 Coburn Ventures group released the first beta of its bi-weekly thought piece "Waypoints," the successor to "The Weekly Global Tech Journey" that Pip’s group generated from 1999 to 2005 at UBS.

Prior to founding Coburn Ventures, Pip Coburn was a Managing Director and the global technology strategist in the technology group of UBS Investment Research. At UBS, he was responsible for integrating the research efforts of 120 technology and telecom analysts worldwide, and from 1999 through 2005 was a member of the firm wide Investment Committee. He has written for Red Herring and has been featured in Fast Company, Barron’s, Fortune, Smart Money and MIT's Technology Review. [more here]
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Susan Crawford is Visiting Professor of Law at University of Michigan Law School, teaching cyberlaw and intellectual property law. She is also a Policy Fellow with the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, D.C, a Fellow with The Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and is active with the Internet Policy Project of the Aspen Institute. Ms. Crawford received her B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and J.D. from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Washington, D.C.) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy.

Susan is the founder of OneWebDay, a global day of celebration of the Internet. She is also Chair of the Board of Directors of Innovation Network (www.innonet.org), a member of the Board of Directors of ICANN, a member of the Board of Directors of Greenwood Music Camp, and a member of the advisory boards of SquareTrade, Renovation in Music Education, Voxiva, and other groups.
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Dr. Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., a start up company focused on dynamic sharing of information across the Internet. He is also on the board of the Internet Society, and chair of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee. Dr. Crocker has been involved in the Internet since its inception. In the late 1960's and early 1970's, while he was a graduate student at UCLA, he was part of the team that developed the protocols for the Arpanet and laid the foundation for today's Internet. He organized the Network Working Group, which was the forerunner of the modern Internet Engineering Task Force and initiated the Request for Comment (RFC) series of notes through which protocol designs are documented and shared. He remained active in the Internet standards work through the IETF and IAB. For this work, Dr. Crocker was awarded the 2002 IEEE Internet Award. Dr. Crocker experience includes research management at DARPA, USC/ISI and The Aerospace Corporation, vice president of Trusted Information Systems, and co-founder of CyberCash, Inc. and Longitude Systems, Inc. Dr. Crocker earned his BA in math and PhD in computer science at UCLA, and he studied artificial intelligence at MIT.
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Greg Elin is data application developer working at the intersection of massively distributed data and user experience. He helps organizations articulate and prototype new technologies focusing on databases. Mr. Elin created the open source image annotation technology Fotonotes and is the Chief Data Architect of the Sunlight Foundation whose mission is using the Internet to further transparency in Congress. As a member of Sunlight Labs he assists watchdog organizations in developing web service APIs, web 2.0 applications, and cool widgets for making federal government data more accessible and insanely useful. Mr. Elin holds a Masters from the Tisch School of the Arts's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a B.A. in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Tom is retired from Motorola, where he founded and headed the Canopy wireless broadband operation. Most of his 39-year career at Motorola has been focused on wireless data in one form or another; he has over 60 patents that span many of the basics for that industry. He is now Executive Vice President and Director of Corporate Strategy for MemoryLink, a company that is focusing on bringing new technologies and applications to the wireless Internet. 
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Roxane Googin publishes the High Technology Observer, a technology investment strategy service. Focused on long term trends rather than on short term trading ideas, one area of focus since 2000 has been on the continuing ramifications of the “Paradox of the Best Network”, which stipulates that the best network, perfectly plain and extensible, is also the perfect capital repellant. Like DRAM vendors, owners of such networks get caught in endless cycles of loss-leading capacity extensions.  While service providers have hidden from this “bit pipe” future, behind favorable regulations, re-monopolization, as well as behind the hope of delivering new types of traffic or services beyond bandwidth and voice, these efforts are doomed to failure as ever smarter endpoints, including the iPhone, increasingly disintermediate them. This basic paradox has haunted Telecom investment for 8 years now, and will continue to do so until it is resolved.

As a cross-industry analyst, I am interested in more than bandwidth. I am particularly interested in how next-gen applications that bring together now forms of software, delivered over new forms of bandwidth and user devices, can deliver the next generation of productivity improvements. In earth-saving terms, I wonder how the intersection between IPv6, machine to machine communications, wireless access, GPS, social networking and collaboration, can act to transform energy intensive behaviors such as daily travel and supply chain management.  I also wonder about the degree that we will collectively allow these forces to degrade our privacy in the name of conservation. Secondarily, since the primary source of atmospheric carbon comes from coal fired power plants, I wonder how power lines can be used to transmit data about energy usage to reduce peak loads, and hence minimize the need for new plants.  As with the above example, the ultimate trade-off may again be between efficiency and privacy. Finally, if power lines are used to transmit usage data, one wonders how long it will take for them to be transformed into yet another bandwidth vehicle to the home.
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I am the CTO of Hilllcrest Communications, a new startup working in the overlapping areas of media and telecommunications. My prior work history includes a stint as President and CTO of Broadsword Technologies, 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. 
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Dewayne Hendricks is CEO, of Tetherless Access, Inc. (TAI), a Fremont, California based company which does research, product development and deployment of broadband wired and wireless data devices and services. TAI is the new incarnation of Tetherless Access Ltd. (TAL) where he was its CEO and co-founder. TAL was founded back in 1990 and was one of the first companies to develop and deploy Part 15 unlicensed wireless metropolitan area data networks which used the TCP/IP protocols. TAL eventually went public in 1996. He is also a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Technological Advisory Council (TAC http://www.fcc.gov/oet/tac). He has participated in the installation of wireless networks in many parts of the world such as Kenya, Tonga, Mexico, Canada and Mongolia. He has been involved with radio since his teens, when he obtained his amateur radio operator's license. 
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At 32 this musician from Rio de Janeiro has evolved an unparalleled way of playing. His phrasing, the extra strings and his powerful sound, combined to the speed of the solo passages and improvisations, are inspiring a new generation and a new sound.  Hamilton is not so much after innovation than music focusing on beauty and spontaneity. He has in front of him a new world rife with possibilities. His North Star is the notion that “Modernity Is Tradition”: the point is neither the past nor the future, but their relationship, as they merge in the present moment, here and now.  Hamilton was affectionately dubbed “Prince of Bandolim” in the French press, and “King” in the Brazilian press (Revista Bravo).  He recently performed the Brazilian national anthem in Rio de Janeiro for the opening ceremony of the Parapanamerican Games. Hamilton appears in various major events and festivals in Brazil and internationally.  He has been performing and recording with Mike Marshall since 2004. 
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David S. Isenberg spent 12 years at AT&T Bell Labs until his 1997 essay,"The Rise of the Stupid Network," was received with acclaim everywhere in the global telecommunications community with one exception -- at AT&T itself! So Isenberg left AT&T in 1998 to found isen.com, LLC (an independent telecom analysis firm based in Cos Cob, Connecticut), to publish isen.blog, and to produce conferences such as F2C: Freedom To Connect.
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Don Jackson is Vice President of Advanced Telephony at Tellme Networks, where he works on enhancing the functionality and features of Tellme's connections to phone and data networks.  His responsibilities include the SIP version of the Tellme platform, and the development of communication applications for carriers and service providers.
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Steve Kamman is an Analyst covering Networking and Telecom Equipment at Fidelity Investments in Boston, MA.  He joined Fidelity in 2006. From 2001-2006, Steve covered the Networking industry as an Analyst at CIBC World Markets. He was part of CIBC's Telecom Services research team from 1999 - 2000. In the 90's, Steve worked in Corporate Development at MCI Telecommunications Corp for 2 years and in Andersen Consulting's Tech, Media, and Telecom practice for 5 years. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA Cum Laude in both the History and Economics majors from Yale University.  He is deeply indifferent to both the Red Sox and the Yankees.
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Mike Marshall has performed with some of the top acoustic string instrumentalists in the world, including Stephane Grappelli, Mark O'Connor, Bela Fleck and Joshua Bell. He has been at the centre of the acoustic music scene since the beginning of his career as a member of the original David Grisman Quintet. His mastery of mandolin, guitar and violin, together with his ability to swing between jazz, classical, bluegrass and Latin styles, has gained him critical acclaim.

In 1983 Marshall forged a partnership with violinist Darol Anger, and together they formed the Montreux Band with pianist Barbara Higbie, bassist Michael Manring and steel drum virtuoso Andy Narell. This band helped point the way for much of the acoustic instrumental music of the 80s and 90s.

More here.
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Gardner is the Airplane House caretaker, manager and Historian. He is a Jungian with degrees and belts in too many things, so he gardens now and tells outlandish stories which silhouette the truth in much the same way that weekends sneak up on Wednesday.
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Désirée Zeljka Miloshevic is the Special Advisor to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Advisory Group Chair, and International Affairs and Policy Advisor at Afilias, a global leader in domain name services. In addition, she represents the Gibraltar ccTLD (.GI) at CENTR, and other major European institutions. First elected to the ISOC Board in 2004, she also currently serves on the Board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (2004-2007), Creative Commons UK (2004- ), the Irish ENUM Forum Policy Advisory Board (2005- ), is a member of Advisory Council of Open Rights Group UK (2005- ). She is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and has been a judge in the Technical Innovation Section of the annual Webby Awards since 2003.

One of the founding European members of the ICANN ccNSO (March 2004), Ms. Miloshevic's work in the internet field began in 1993 as one of the first hostmasters for Demon Internet, the United Kingdom's first consumer Internet access provider. She participated in the informal, peer-coordinated policy making process for the .UK domain until supervision of the UK ccTLD was assumed by Nominet in 1996. In subsequent years she has worked as an expert technical and policy consultant for new top-level domains (e.g., .MUSEUM and .PRO), and has participated in the work of many Internet councils, workshops and constituencies in the areas of DNS policy and Internet governance. She has also contributed lectures to CEENET, the South East European CyberSecurity Cooperation Forum, the Eastern European Networking Association, the Stability Pact for South East Europe, and many other regional fora.

Désirée's decade-plus of close and productive interactions with regulators, intergovernmental leaders, academics, artists, and community activists throughout the world provide her with a unique set of resources with which to engage the often complex, cross-sectoral challenges of Internet technical coordination and governance.
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Elliot Noss has been a leader in the Internet industry for nearly ten years and has been a driver in the evolution of Tucows Inc. for the last seven. Trained as a lawyer, he joined Tucows in 1997 as Vice President, Corporate Services. He was subsequently appointed president and CEO of Tucows Inc. in May 1999.

During his tenure, Tucows has grown to become a leading destination for Internet software and application downloads. In 2000, the company created the wholesale domain name registration market with the launch of the OpenSRS (shared registration services) platform. In August 2001, he helped orchestrate Tucows' merger with Infonautics, Inc., under the Tucows name. Since then, Mr. Noss has rapidly expanded Tucows wholesale services to offer digital certificates, DNS, and email services to a growing international Reseller channel.

He champions areas of vital interest to the Internet community including; privacy, ICANN reform and registrar matters, the implications of emerging technologies, and the emergence of small and medium-sized ISPs and web hosting companies as the unrecognized backbone of the Internet economy.

Mr. Noss chairs the University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science Advisory Board and is a distinguished graduate of the University of Toronto where he earned a BA. He also earned an MBA and LLB from the University of Western Ontario.
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Tim is CEO of East Central Vermont Community Fiber Network, a consortium of 23 Vermont towns developing a universal fiber-to-the-home/premise network for their communities. Formerly he was the developer and then General Manager of Burlington Telecom, a Burlington, Vermont city-wide fiber-to-the-premise network providing Cable TV, telephone and high-speed internet to city residents and businesses. BTís network is open access, providing wholesale transport on a non-discriminatory basis to any service provider. As of August 1, 2008, BT had 4000 customers and is expected to be profitable by the end of the year. Tim holds a Ph.D in Economics from Cambrige University and has held numerous telecom operating and policy positions at the World Bank, U.S. House of Representatives Commerce Committee and U.S. Senate Commerce Committee. Much more here.
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Andrew Odlyzko is a Professor in the School of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota. He is engaged in a variety of projects, from mathematics to security and Internet traffic monitoring. His main task currently is to write a book that compares the Internet bubble to the British Railway Mania of the 1840s, and explores the implications for future of technology diffusion.

Between 2001 and 2008, he also was at various times the founding director of the interdisciplinary Digital Technology Center, Interim Director of the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, Assistant Vice President for Research, and held an ADC Professorship, all at the University of Minnesota. Before moving to Minneapolis 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. 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.

He has managed projects 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 may be known best for an early debunking of the myth of Internet traffic doubling every three or four months and for demonstrating that connectivity has traditionally mattered much more
for society than content.
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Robert Pepper (he prefers to be called "Pepper") is Senior Managing Director, Global Advanced Technology Policy, Cisco Systems Inc.

Pepper leads a team driving Cisco's global agenda for advanced technology policy in areas such as broadband, IP enabled services, wireless, security and privacy. He joined Cisco in July 2005 from the FCC where he served as Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy and Chief of Policy Development beginning in 1989 where he focused on issues cutting across traditional industry and institutional boundaries as a result of new technologies and convergence and led teams implementing telecommunications legislation, planning for the transition from analog to digital television, designing and implementing the first spectrum auctions in the United States and developing policies promoting the development of the Internet. Before joining the FCC, he served as Director of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy. His government service also included Acting Associate Administrator at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and initiating a program on Computers, Communications and Information Policy at the National Science Foundation. His academic appointments included faculty positions at the Universities of Iowa, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, and as a research affiliate at Harvard University. He serves on the board of directors of the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI), the advisory boards for Columbia University and Michigan State University, is a Communications Program Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a non-resident Fellow at the Annenberg Center at the University of Southern California. He also is a member of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Spectrum Management Advisory Committee and the UK's Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board. Pepper received his BA. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Mark Peshoff is Senior Director of Executive Thought Leadership, Cisco Systems. In this position, he manages a team which support's Cisco's need to be positioned and recognized as the preeminent thought leader regarding the role and relevance of networking in solving Cisco's customer's most important business problems.

Mr. Peshoff has a proven track record of building successful teams in diverse and challenging markets. He joined Cisco in 1996, previously serving as Director of Service Provider Marketing for Cisco Systems. In this position, he led several teams within Cisco, including the Solutions Management & Marketing, Segment Marketing, Strategic Marketing and Press Relations/Analyst Relations teams. These groups advocate, support and enhance value for the company's Service Provider products and services. He also was Director of Marketing for Cisco's Integrated Access Business Unit and Director of International Marketing for the company's Optical Transport Business Unit.

With more than 23 years in the industry, Mr. Peshoff's experience includes sales management, consulting, product marketing, field marketing, product management and acquisitions assessment and integration. Prior to Cisco, he spent 14 years with Hewlett-Packard, building the company's first Network Consulting Organization. Within both Cisco and Hewlett-Packard, he has held key sales management and marketing positions in Europe and Asia Pacific.

Mr. Peshoff is a recognized speaker internationally. He is one of Cisco's top speakers, frequently delivering addresses at conferences throughout the world.
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JP is Managing Director for BT Design. BT Design works in 170 countries and is the fastest growing division within BT Group, supporting large businesses and organizations across the globe. Before BT, Mr Rangaswami led on collaborative technologies at the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein is now the subject of several Harvard Business School case studies. Mr Rangaswami is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Royal Society for the Encouragements of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He holds a degree in economics and statistics from St. Xavier's College, University of Calcutta.
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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. Reed is currently employed by the MIT Media Lab and by Hewlett-Packard Labs. At MIT he co-leads both the MIT Communications Futures Program and the Viral Communications Research Group at the Media Lab, and at HP he is an HP Fellow.
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Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, and a fellow with both the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and the Center for Information Technology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

At the Berkman Center, Doc leads ProjectVRM, which has the immodest ambition of liberating customers from entrapment in vendor silos and improving markets by creating a productive balance of power in relationships between supply and demand. At CITS his work centers around study of the Internet as a new form of infrastructure, and the creation of an Internet Infrastructure Institute.

Doc also has a consulting practice with The Searls Group, which has worked with Hitachi, Sun, Apple, Nortel, Borland, BT, Motorola and other leading companies, in addition to many start-ups. He also serves on the board of directors for PlanetEye, and on the advisory boards of Jabber, Inc., Ping Identity Corp., SocialText, SpikeSource, Krugle, B5 Media and Technorati.
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Aaron Swartz (born 1986) is a writer, web developer, and entrepreneur. At age 14 he was a co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification. Since then he has become a member of the W3C's RDF Core Working Group, co-designed the formatting language Markdown with John Gruber, and been very involved in many other projects.

Aaron was the founder of Infogami, a startup that was part of Y Combinator's first Summer Founders Program. Previously, he attended Stanford University for a year, before leaving to work on his company full-time. Infogami joined reddit, another company that was involved with Y Combinator's inaugural session, and both products are now part of not a bug. Infogami is well short of its full functionality, and has not been updated since May 2006 when Swartz apparently discontinued its Google Ads service.

Today, among his other interests, Aaron is Leader for the Open Library Project.
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Richard S. Whitt is the Washington Telecom and Media Counsel for Google Inc. In that capacity, Rick is responsible for Google's wireline, wireless, and media advocacy before the Federal Communications Commission, other federal agencies, and the U.S. Congress. Most recently he has represented the company's interest in broadband policy issues (such as network neutrality), spectrum policy matters (such as the 700 MHz auction and TV white spaces proceedings), and the "unregulation" of VoIP and other Web-based applications.

Prior to joining Google in January 2007, Rick founded and headed NetsEdge Consulting, a public policy consulting firm that provided legal analysis, regulatory strategy, and advocacy counsel to Web-based companies. From 1994 to 2006, Rick worked at MCI Communications, where most recently he served as vice president for federal law and policy. Rick previously spent over five years as an associate attorney in the communications practices of two D.C.-based law firms. Rick is a 1988 cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, and a 1984 magna cum laude graduate of James Madison University.
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