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Ten Years of Voice Innovation and We're Just Starting!
Monday, April 3, 2006, 2:15pm - 3:00pm
The VON Coalition is ten years old in 2006. It has evolved to become a powerful shaper of telephony applications, services and policy. Three long-time members of the VON Coalition look forward to the next decade.
Jonathan Askin, General Counsel, pulver.com
Jonathan Askin is General Counsel/Wartime Consiglieri to pulver.com, which controls approximately 20 operating companies touching various aspects of IP-based communications. Before joining pulver.com, Jonathan was President and General Counsel to ALTS, the leading national trade association representing facilities-based CLECs. Jonathan was a senior attorney in the FCC’s Common Carrier Bureau before joining ALTS. Prior to the FCC, he was a New Jersey Deputy Public Advocate, where he represented the public on telecommunications and cable issues. Jonathan also practiced law with the New York offices of Davis, Polk. Jonathan is an honors graduate of both Harvard College and Rutgers Law School, and clerked for the late Chief Justice Robert Wilentz of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Tom Evslin, President, Evslin Consulting
Tom Evslin was co-founder (with wife Mary), Chairman, and CEO of ITXC Corporation, the world's leading provider of wholesale VoIP. The company grew from startup in 1997 to one of the world's largest carriers of any kind by 2004 when it was acquired. Previously, Tom was responsible for the conception, launch, and operation of AT&T's first ISP, AT&T WorldNet. And while at Microsoft, he was responsible for the server products now in Microsoft BackOffice including Microsoft Exchange. Key assets of the Evslins' software company, Solution, Inc., were sold to Microsoft. Tom's first novel, an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble, will begin online serialization soon. His blog is at blog.tomevslin.com
Jim Kohlenberger, Executive Director, The VON Coalition
Jim Kohlenberger is the Executive Director of the VON Coalition and a former White House technology policy advisor. At the White House he helped formulate U.S. policy on technology, telecommunications, and the Internet. Specifically, he worked to help pass the Telecommunications Act of 1996, help shape the administration's hands-off approach to the Internet and e-commerce, and help spearhead administration efforts to bridge the digital divide and connect every classroom to the Internet. He now runs his own consulting practice.
