The World (Recovering Regulators)
Thursday, November 10, 2005, 11:20am - 12:30
Upright - Accomplishment. Fulfillment. Completion of a personal cycle, project, series of events or chapter in life. Success. A culmination of events. A sense of repleteness.
Reversed - Frustration. Completion delayed. Sometimes fear of change. Inability to bring something to a satisfactory end. resistance to change. Lack of trust. Despite appearances to the contrary, an indication that events have not yet come to a conclusion but are nearing completion. Hesitation.
The prodigal sons return to share what they have discovered in their journeys beyond the Beltway. What do those who left Government have to teach us?
Matthew Brill, Partner, Latham & Watkins
Matthew Brill is a partner at Latham & Watkins, LLP. He previously served as Senior Legal Advisor to Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy at the FCC, where he acted as the commissioner’s chief liaison to the Chairman’s office and agency staff, as well as to senior industry executives, trade associations, and state regulators. He played a key role in developing local telephone competition rules and creating the regulatory frameworks for broadband Internet access and Voice-over-IP services. Before joining the FCC, Brill practiced at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his B.A. from Dartmouth College.
Jeffrey Carlisle, VP, Compliance & Government Relations, Lenovo
Jeff Carlisle is the Vice President, Compliance and Government Relations for Lenovo, the global PC company that manufactures ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops. He joined Lenovo after having served as Deputy Chief and then Chief of the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau, where he managed the development of the Commission’s policies on VoIP, broadband, competitive entry into the local exchange market, and bankruptcy. Before working at the FCC, he practiced law independently and as an associate at the Washington, D.C., office of O’Melveny & Myers. He received a B.A. in History, magna cum laude, from UCLA, a J.D. from Boalt Hall and an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School.
David Farber, Professor, Carnegie Mellon
Dave Farber is Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He retired from the University of Pennsylvania where he held the Alfred Fitler Moore Chair of Telecommunications, with appointments in the Engineering School and the Wharton School. Prior, he served as chief technologist for the Federal Communications Commission. He has held positions at Bell Labs, Rand, Xerox, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of Delaware. In addition, he is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He has been a member of both the U.S. Presidential Advisory Board on Information Technology and the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society.
David Irwin, Adjunct Instructor at the Columbus School of Law at, Irwin, Campbell & Tannenwald
David Irwin has over 30 years of experience in telecommunications law and regulation. He practices law at Irwin, Campbell & Tannenwald, P.C., and also serves as the Director of the Institute for Communications Law Studies as Catholic University Law School. Irwin is a graduate of the Washington College of Law at American University. He formerly held key positions at the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau including: Deputy Chief-Policy and Special Counsel to the Chief of the Bureau. He also held various corporate legal positions. Irwin's practice encompasses emerging technologies, satellite companies, independent and competitive telecommunications companies and wireless providers.
Stagg Newman, Senior Telecommunications Practice Expert, McKinsey & Company
Dr. Stagg Newman joined McKinsey & Company in 2000 as Senior Telecommunications Practice Expert, where he provides technology advice and strategic technology analysis to client teams across the Firm's telecommunications practice. Prior to joining McKinsey, Newman served as Chief Technologist at the FCC where he advised the Commissioners and senior staffers on strategic technology issues. Much of his work centered on the FCC's market opening initiatives for advanced telecommunications capabilities. Another theme of his work was "keeping the Internet safe from traditional telco style regulation." Newman started his telecommunications career with Bell Labs in 1976 and worked for various descendents of Ma Bell in voice, data, video, and wireless networking until his appointment to the FCC in 1997. He received his B.S. from Davidson College and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell in Mathematics.
