Eighth Annual Access

to Capital and
Telecommuncations
Policy Conference
&
Thirteenth Annual
Hall of Fame Awards

July 19 – July 20, 2010

Renaissance Dupont Circle Hotel
Washington, D.C.
 3636 16th Street, N.W., Suite B-366, Washington, D.C. 20010 202-332-0500 Fax: 202-332-7511 www.mmtconline.org

July 19, 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen:

W elcome to MMTC’s Eighth Annual Access to Capital and Telecom Policy Conference.
We’re glad you’re here.

Our conference is the preeminent media and telecom financial gathering focused on minorities.
No other conference does what we do or has the focus that we have.

This has been an extraordinary challenging year in MMTC’s history and, throughout the conference
you will hear of the many new and exciting initiatives we have and will be undertaking.

I’d like to convey our deepest appreciation to our many conference sponsors, especially
Our conference is the our Gold Sponsors, BIA Financial Network, the National Association of Broadcasters and
Time Warner Cable, our Silver Sponsors, AT&T and Comcast, and our Bronze Sponsors,
preeminent media NetCommunications and SNL Kagan. This conference would not be possible without them.

and telecom financial Special mention must be made here of two donors we’ll be honoring for their extraordinary
generosity, commitment to diversity and vision: Clear Channel Communications, whose
gathering focused contribution to MMTC of several radio stations is enabling us to build a nonprofit radio
group to train minorities in broadcasting, and Trinity Broadcasting Network, which
on minorities is arranging to donate to MMTC the largest gift of spectrum in history – up to 155
LPTV stations.

I also owe thanks to our stellar Executive Committee, Board of Directors, Board of Advisors and
Best Minds Policy Committee for giving MMTC so much of themselves over the years. Thanks,
too, to Joycelyn James, Jacqueline Clary, Marcella Gadson, Laura Berrocal and Dorrissa Griffin,
who are MMTC’s staff, and to our tireless President and Executive Director, David Honig, for their
never-ending work in advancing the cause of minority ownership, equal employment and contracting
opportunities in the media, telecom and broadband industries.

Throughout the year, MMTC does its very best to advance the interests of minorities in Washington
media, telecom and broadband policy debates and decisions. This is profoundly difficult and
challenging work for an organization with limited human and fiscal resources. Your support and
participation throughout the year are much needed and always appreciated.

I hope you have a great conference and thank you for joining us.

Sincerely,

Henry M. Rivera
Chair, MMTC

WELCOME
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 EIGHTH ANNUAL ACCESS TO CAPITAL AND
TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY CONFERENCE
Renaissance Dupont Circle Hotel, 1143 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Monday, July 19, 2010: Telecom Policy Day

8:00 AM Broadband And Social Justice Breakfast

Welcome
Hon. Henry M. Rivera, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP; Chair, MMTC
Presiding Francisco Montero, Partner, Fletcher Heald & Hildreth, P.L.C.;
Member, MMTC Board of Directors
Speakers The State Of Social Justice In Broadband
Hon. Daisy Lynum, President, Women in Municipal Government
David Honig, President and Executive Director, MMTC

9:30 AM How To Achieve Universal First Class Citizenship In The Digital Age

Co-Presiding Hon. Julia Johnson, President, NetCommunications Inc.; Treasurer, MMTC

David Honig, President and Executive Director, MMTC
The View From The National Broadband Plan
Blair Levin, Communications and Society Fellow, Aspen Institute;
former Executive Director, FCC Broadband Initiative
The View From Content
Cleveland Spears, General Manager, The Flow powered by iM4radio BN
The View From Distribution
John Muleta, Founder and CEO, M2Z Networks; Member, MMTC Board of Advisors
The View From Cable
David Don, Senior Director of Public Policy, Comcast Corp.
The View From Wireless
David Hill, Vice President and Associate General Counsel – Federal Advocacy, Verizon
The View From Telephony
Cynthia Marshall, President, AT&T North Carolina
The View From The Future
Hon. Shirley Franklin, Senior Executive Advisor, Alliance for Digital Equality;
former Mayor, Atlanta, GA

MONDAY
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11:30 AM A Conversation With FCC Commissioners

Presiding Hon. Henry M. Rivera, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP; Chair, MMTC
Speakers Hon. Robert McDowell, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
Hon. Meredith Baker, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
Hon. Mignon Clyburn, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission (by video link)

12:30 PM Telecommunications Policy Luncheon And Keynote Address

Presiding Maurita Coley, Executive Director, Capital Area Asset Builders; Vice Chair, MMTC
Invocation Dorrissa Griffin, MMTC Law Clerk; President, Christian Legal Society, FAMU School of Law
Presentation The Distinguished Pro Bono Achievement Award
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Accepted by Mark Dever
Presented by Whitney Marshall, MMTC Law Clerk
Presentation Extraordinary Service Award
Cynthia Marshall, President, AT&T North Carolina
Presented by Dr. Jannette Dates, Dean, School of Communications, Howard University;
Member, MMTC Board of Directors
Presentation Broadband And Social Justice1.0
Nicol Turner-Lee, Vice President and Director, Media and Technology Institute,
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies; Member, MMTC Board of Directors
Presentation Minority Digital Entrepreneurship:
Recommendations To The FCC From The New Media Entrepreneurs Conference
Angela Benton, Publisher, BlackWeb2.0 and Politic365
Announcement MMTC Cathy Hughes Fellowship
David Honig, President and Executive Director, MMTC
Linda Vilardo, Chief Administrative Officer, Radio One, Inc.;
Member, MMTC Board of Advisors
Remarks Hon. Jonathan Adelstein, Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Introduction Hon. Gloria Tristani, Of Counsel, Spiegel & McDiarmid LLP;
Member, MMTC Board of Directors
Telecom Policy Keynote
Speaker Jeff Valdez, Co-Chairman, Maya Entertainment

MONDAY
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2:30 PM Broadband And Social Justice Keynote

Presiding Manny Mirabal, Chair, Hispanic Technology and

Telecommunications Partnership (HTTP)
Broadband and Social Justice Keynote
Speaker Rey Ramsey, President and CEO, TechNet, Chair, One Economy Corp.;
Member, MMTC Board of Advisors

3:30 PM From The Mountaintop: Industry Leaders Address Digital Equality

Presiding Ari Q. Fitzgerald, Partner, Hogan Lovells; Secretary, MMTC

Speakers Dean Garfield, President and CEO, Information Technology Industry Council
Walter McCormick, President, U.S. Telecom – The Broadband Association
Kyle McSlarrow, President National Cable and Telecommunications Association
Hon. Gordon Smith, President, National Association of Broadcasters

5:30 - 8:00 PM Thirteenth Annual MMTC Hall Of Fame Reception

Presiding Hon. Henry M. Rivera, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP; Chair, MMTC
The Value Of Diversity
Hon. Michael J. Copps, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
Inductees MMTC Hall Of Fame Awards
Angela Benton, Publisher, BlackWeb2.0 and Politic365
Inducted by Kristal High, President, Media Foundation Group
Rey Ramsey, CEO, TechNet; Chair, One Economy Corp.; Member, MMTC Board of Advisors
Inducted by Joycelyn James, Cathy Hughes Fellow, MMTC

8:15 - 10:00 PM Colloquium: Building A National Movement Of Minority Digital Entrepreneurs

Discussion Patrick Gusman, Executive Director, TechNetWorks

Leader

MONDAY
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 Tuesday, July 20, 2010: Access To Capital Day

8:00 AM Entrepreneurship Breakfast: The Jump From Broadcasting

And Publishing To Online Media

Co-Presiding Joseph Miller, Deputy Director, Media and Technology Institute, Joint Center
for Political and Economic Studies
Kristal High, President, Media Foundation Group
Opening Remarks
Hon. Bobby L. Rush, Member of Congress
Speakers Mark Fratrik, Vice President, BIA Financial Network
Anita Stephens Graham, General Partner, Opportunity Capital Partners
Navarrow Wright, President, Maximum Leverage Solutions
Jerry L. Johnson, Vice President, RLJ Equity Partners, LLC

9:30 AM Creating, Financing And Building A Startup Company

Moderator Erwin Krasnow, Partner, Garvey Schubert Barer; Vice Chair, MMTC
Speakers Eric Broyles, Founder & CEO, Megree, Inc.
Juan Pablo Giometti, President and CEO, National Hispanic Entrepreneurs’Organization (NHEO)
David Grain, Founder and CEO, Grain Communications Group
H. Edward Young, Jr., CEO, 40A, Inc.

10:30 AM Remarks From The Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

Presiding Henry M. Rivera, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP; Chair, MMTC

Remarks Hon. Julius Genachowski, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

10:45 AM The Procurement Office Is Open For Business

Presiding Ronald Johnson, President, Ronson Network Services; Member, MMTC Board of Directors
Speaker Thomas Power, Chief of Staff, National Telecommunications and Information
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Remarks Alithia Bruinton, Associate Director, AT&T Supplier Diversity
Michelle Hankston, Regional Buyer Analyst, Time Warner Cable
Ajamu Johnson, Director, Supplier Diversity, Comcast Corp.

TUESDAY
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12:30 PM Access To Capital Luncheon And Keynote Address

Presiding Hon. Deborah Taylor Tate, former Commissioner, FCC; Member, MMTC Board of Directors

Invocation Rev. Reggie Gay, President, ReggieGay.com

The Everett C. Parker Lifetime Achievement Award

Senator Robert Menendez
Presented by Raul Alarcon, Jr., President, CEO and Chairman of the Board,
Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc.

The Excellence In Financial Services Award

The Gladstone Companies
Accepted by David Meier, Managing Director, Private Finance
Presented by S. Jenell Trigg, Partner, Lerman Senter PLLC; Member,
MMTC Board of Advisors

Extraordinary Service Awards

Clear Channel Communications
Accepted by Steve Davis, Senior Vice President, Engineering & Capital Management,
Clear Channel Radio

Trinity Broadcasting Network

Accepted by Colby May, Counsel
Presented by Hon. Julia Johnson, President, NetCommunications Inc.;
Treasurer, MMTC

Presentation Multicultural Digital Entrepreneurship

York Eggleston, CEO, Semantic Labs, LLC

Introduction Hon. Julia Johnson, President, NetCommunications, Inc.; Treasurer, MMTC

Access To Capital Keynote

Speaker Leo Hindery, Chairman and CEO, InterMedia Partners; Member, MMTC Board of Directors

TUESDAY
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2:30 - 5:30 PM Financial, Transactional And Procurement Forum

The Forum provides minority entrepreneurs, and companies interested in doing business
with them, an opportunity to meet face to face, discuss business plans, and explore potential
relationships and services.

Entrepreneurs may sign up at the conference registration table for appointments with
representatives of companies and financial institutions seeking to do business with
minority entrepreneurs.

Table Hosts:

Arbitron
AT&T
Blackbird
Comcast
Fletcher Heald & Hildreth. PLC
Garvey Schubert Barer
The Gladstone Companies
K&L Gates
Kozacko & Associates
Lerman Senter
M2Z Networks
Maya Entertainment
Megree, Inc.
MMTC Media Brokers
National Association of Broadcasters/NABEF
One Caribbean Radio, Inc.
Opportunity Capital Partners
Semantic Labs
Spanish Broadcasting System
SYNCOM Funds
Time Warner Cable
Wiley Rein

TUESDAY
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 The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council would
like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support.

MMTC 2010 ACCESS TO CAPITAL AND TELECOM POLICY CONFERENCE SPONSORS

GOLD
BIA Financial Network
National Association of Broadcasters
Time Warner Cable Inc.
SILVER BRONZE
AT&T NetCommunications Inc.
Comcast SNL Kagan

TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY LUNCHEON ACCESS TO CAPITAL LUNCHEON

BlackWeb2.0 Politic365
Clear Channel Communications, Inc.
News Corporation

HALL OF FAME RECEPTION BROADBAND AND SOCIAL JUSTICE BREAKFAST

Citadel Broadcasting Corporation Cablevision
ION Television CBS Corp.
National Cable and Telecommunications The Walt Disney Company
Association The Hispanic Institute
Spanish Broadcasting System Hispanic Technology and
Verizon Telecommunications Partnership
NBC Universal
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
USTelecom

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BREAKFAST
Arbitron Inc.
Council Tree Communications, Inc.
CTIA-The Wireless Association
InterMedia Partners, LP
One Caribbean Radio
Radio One, Inc.
The RLJ Companies

SPONSORS
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 GENERAL SPONSORS

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Alliance for Women in Media
Asian American Justice Center
Arnold & Porter LLP
Belo Corp.
National Association of Latino Independent Producers
Black College Communications Association
Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association
Bonneville International
Bright House Networks
Broadcast1Source
Capital Wire PR
Latinos in Science and Technology Association
Law Media Group
Lerman Senter PLLC
National Association of Black
Telecommunications Professionals
National Association of Multi-Ethnicity
in Communications
National Hispanic Entrepreneurs’ Organization
The Nielsen Company
Office of Communication of the
United Church of Christ, Inc.

Communications Workers of America One Economy Corporation

Cox Enterprises Opportunity Capital Partners

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Organization of Chinese Americans

Dialogue on Diversity Pike & Fischer

DirecTV Puerto Rico Broadcasters Association

Dow Lohnes Rainbow PUSH Coalition

Fletcher Heald & Hildreth, PLC SYNCOM Venture Partners

The Ghatt Law Group Wilco Electronic Systems, Inc.

The Gladstone Companies Wiley Rein LLP

Hogan Lovells Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP

International Black Broadcasters Association Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies WorldBand Media Inc.

SPONSORS
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Monday 8:00 AM Broadband And Social Justice Breakfast
Henry M. Rivera
Partner, Wiley Rein LLP
Chair, MMTC
Henry Rivera specializes
in representing
telecommunications
and media companies in
legal matters before the
Federal Communications
Commission (FCC),
Congress, the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration and the
White House. Rivera has been named among the top 12 telecom
experts in the United States by Legal Media Group’s “Best of the
Best.”
He has served as an FCC Commissioner (1981-1985), as a
member of FCC and State Department Advisory Committees,
and on several U.S. delegations to international telecommu-
nications conferences. He is also a past president of the Federal
Communications Bar Association. Rivera, who serves on the
board of many charitable organizations, was a Founding Board
Member of Valor Telecommunications, the first Hispanic-owned
telephone company.
Rivera received his B.A. in Economics from the University of New
Mexico, and his J.D. from the University of New Mexico School
of Law, where he was Editor of the Natural Resources Journal. He
also received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting
from the University of Albuquerque. Rivera, who is a Vietnam
veteran and recipient of the Bronze Star, currently resides in
Arlington, VA with his spouse, Bernadette McGuire-Rivera, Ph.D.
SPEAKERS
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Francisco R. Montero
Co-Managing Partner,
Fletcher Heald & Hildreth,
PLC; Member, MMTC
Board of Directors
Francisco Montero’s
practice includes FCC
regulatory counseling,
corporate finance,
asset and securities
acquisitions, intellectual
property, and real estate and commercial transactions. He writes
frequently on communications law issues for industry trade
publications, particularly in the area of radio station finance and
business.
Mr. Montero was an appointed member of the Federal
Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in
the Digital Age. He has also served as Director of the FCC’s
Office of Communications Business Opportunities, working
with industry, trade associations, financing institutions and
governmental agencies to create business opportunities in the
telecommunications and technology sectors.
Mr. Montero is active in Hispanic and Spanish-language media in
both the U.S. and Latin America. He is on the Board of Directors
of the Independent Spanish Broadcasters Association, which he
co-founded; he also helped form the American Hispanic Owned
Radio Association (AHORA). In 2007, Montero was named to
the list of “Top Washington DC Lawyers” by SuperLawyers.com
and in 2008 he was named to MMTC’s Hall of Fame.
Mr. Montero received his J.D. from the George Washington
University Law School, where he served on the George Washington
University Law Review. He received his B.A. degree from the
University of Michigan.
Monday 8:00 AM Broadband And Social Justice Breakfast
Honorable
Daisy W. Lynum
President,
Women in Municipal
Government
Commissioner Daisy
Williams Lynum was
elected to the Orlando
City Council in April
1998. She is actively
involved in all aspects
of community, professional and political service. In addition to
serving as President of Women in Municipal Government, she
is Chair of the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials
Foundation.
Her career includes work as a teacher, a social worker and an
administrator. Her civic contributions include service to the
Florida League of Cities Urban Administration, the National
League of Cities and the Orange County Voter’s League. In 2005,
Onyx Magazine named Commissioner Lynum as one of 56 most
influential African Americans in the State of Florida.
Ms. Lynum earned an undergraduate degree in Sociology at
Bethune‑Cookman College and a graduate degree in Clinical
Social Work (MSW) from Florida State University. In 2000,
Commissioner Lynum completed the John F. Kennedy School
of Government Program for Executives at Harvard University.
Florida Metropolitan University awarded her an honorary
Doctorate of Humane Letters in May 2005. Commissioner Lynum
is the proud mother of two sons and two granddaughters.
SPEAKERS
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David Honig
President and
Executive Director,
MMTC
David Honig co-founded
the Minority Media and
Telecommunications
Council (MMTC) in 1986
and now serves as its
President and Executive
Director. MMTC
currently represents over 70 minority, civil rights and religious
national organizations in selected proceedings before the FCC. It
also operates the nation’s only full-service, minority-owned media
and telecom brokerage.
Honig has practiced communications and civil rights law since
1983, specializing in electronic redlining and race discrimination
cases. He has taught and written extensively about issues in the
intersection between civil rights and international and domestic
communications. The National Law Journal has named Honig one
of the 30 most influential communications lawyers.
Honig serves on the National Urban League’s Technology
Advisory Council and is Chair of the Constitutional Issues
Subcommittee of the FCC’s Advisory Committee on Diversity
for Communications in the Digital Age. He holds a B.A. in
Mathematics from Oberlin College, an M.S. in Systems Analysis
from the University of Rochester and a law degree cum laude from
Georgetown University.
Monday 9:30 AM How To Achieve Universal First Class Citizenship In The Digital Age
Julia Johnson
President,
NetCommunications, Inc.;
Treasurer, MMTC
Julia Johnson leads
NetCommunications,
Inc., a national regulatory
and public affairs firm
comprised of highly
specialized attorneys
and regulatory analysts.
It focuses primarily on governmental and regulatory practices,
combined with media and public relations.
Ms. Johnson also serves as the Chairwoman for Communica-
tions Policy Development and Outreach for the Florida State
Conference of the NAACP. She is the Treasurer and a Director of
MMTC and serves as Chair of the National Advisory Board to the
National Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women. She
sits on the boards of several large, publicly traded corporations,
including MasTec, Allegheny Energy, Northwestern Energy
Company and American Water.
Johnson was appointed to the Florida Public Service Commission
for two consecutive terms and served as Chairman from
1997-1999. From 2003-2005, she was appointed by then-FCC
Chair Michael Powell as the Chair of the FCC Federal Advisory
Committee on Diversity for Communication in the Digital Age.
Johnson holds a B.S. degree in Business Management and a J.D.
from the University of Florida College of Law.
SPEAKERS
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Blair Levin
Communications and
Society Fellow,
Aspen Institute
Blair Levin is the former
Executive Director of
the FCC Broadband
Initiative, where he
leveraged his vast industry
experience to coordinate
the development of the
national broadband plan. Levin previously served as chief of
staff to former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt from 1993 through
1997. During that time, he oversaw the implementation of the
historic 1996 Telecommunications Reform Act, the first spectrum
auctions, the development of digital television standards and the
Commission’s Internet initiative.
After his time at the FCC, Levin joined Legg Mason as the firm’s
principal telecom, media and tech regulatory and strategy analyst.
Later, he joined the Stifel Nicolaus Research Team in connection
with Stifel’s acquisition of Legg Mason’s Capital Markets Group.
Prior to his original service with the FCC, Levin was a partner
in the North Carolina law firm of Parker Poe, Poe, Adams and
Bernstein. There, he represented new communications ventures
and numerous local governments on public financing issues. He
is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale College and a graduate of
Yale Law School.
Monday 9:30 AM How To Achieve Universal First Class Citizenship In The Digital Age
Cleveland Spears
General Manager,
The Flow, powered
by iM4radio
Broadcasting Network
Cleveland Spears formed
a bond with radio and
music as a young boy.
He was known as the
youngster with a talent
for mimicking radio hosts
and memorizing R&B, soul and rap songs in their entirety.
In 1999, Spears launched GO Deejay!, a mobile disc jockey
company. After an internship at WPFW-FM, he became the
station’s youngest on-air personality at age 21. He was soon
promoted to host and producer of the mid-day slot, where he had
the station’s highest-rated program for four consecutive years.
Realizing the popularity of his non-conformist and edgy style,
coupled with cutting-edge technology, Spears birthed the DC
area’s first radio station that did not use an AM, FM or satellite
signal. The resulting iM4radio Broadcasting Network caters to
minority listeners, with 24-hour talk and music programming.
The Network was one of a few small media outlets that were
invited to cover the 2009 Inauguration of President Barack
Obama.
The Network’s flagship station, The Flow, boasts 106,000 listeners.
With three stations slated to go live in Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Atlanta, the iM4radio Broadcasting Network is rapidly expanding.
Spears aspires to make this new style of broadcasting as widely
used and appreciated as traditional radio.
SPEAKERS
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John Muleta
CEO and Founder,
M2Z Networks;
Member, MMTC
Board of Advisors
In 2005, John Muleta
founded M2Z Networks,
a broadband Internet
access company, with
his partner Milo Medin.
Immediately prior to
founding M2Z Networks, Muleta was Partner and Co-Chair of the
Communications Practice at Venable LLP.
Mr. Muleta distinguished himself through service in two
career positions with the FCC. As head of its Federal
Telecommunications Bureau, he implemented the Commission’s
policies regarding consumer wireless services and public safety
radio networks. He also worked in several capacities at the
Common Carrier Bureau.
Muleta also has a distinguished private-sector record as an
entrepreneur, most prominently serving as a senior officer of
PSINet, Inc., a leading commercial Internet services provider.
He serves on the boards of Fiber Tower and HRSmart, a privately
held human resources application services provider ranked as
one of the fastest growing companies by Inc magazine. Muleta
also serves on the advisory boards of PacketHop, Inc. and Visto,
Inc., two innovative Silicon Valley companies. He holds degrees in
Engineering, Law and Business from the University of Virginia.
Monday 9:30 AM How To Achieve Universal First Class Citizenship In The Digital Age
David Don
Senior Director
for Public Policy,
Comcast Corporation
David Don has been
Senior Director for Public
Policy at Comcast since
January 2009. Prior to
that, he was the Senior
Director for Spectrum
Policy.  Before joining
Comcast in 2006, David was an attorney in the Communications
Practice of Willkie Farr & Gallagher, where he specialized
in wireless and common carrier matters before the FCC and
Congress and in the federal courts.
 
Mr. Don has worked extensively on the FCC’s public policy
and spectrum allocation policies for more than a decade.  In
his current position, he is responsible for helping Comcast
develop its strategies and achieve its priorities before the FCC
and other regulatory agencies. He has spent considerable time
developing and implementing the company’s strategy related to
the implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009. This includes the FCC’s National Broadband Plan,
along with the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program and
broadband mapping efforts of the National Telecommunications
and Information Administration.
Don is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association
and has served as Co-Chair of its Cable Practice and Wireless
Telecommunications Practice Committees. He is a graduate of the
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and graduated
cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center.
SPEAKERS
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David Hill
Vice President and
Associate General Counsel
for Federal Advocacy,
Verizon Communications
David Hill assists Verizon’s
Public Affairs, Policy
and Communications
Groups in developing
and implementing the
company’s advocacy
efforts with the Obama Administration and with influential third-
party groups. Since joining Bell Atlantic in 1994, Hill has been
heavily involved with helping Verizon and its operating companies
thrive in the constantly changing, dynamic telecommunications
marketplace.
Prior to joining Bell Atlantic/Verizon, Hill was associated with
Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC’s largest law firm. As the lead
attorney in Wilkins v. Maryland State Police, he helped to secure
injunctive relief preventing the use of race-based drug courier
profiles in the State of Maryland.
Hill, a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., serves on the
Board of the YMCA Youth and Family Services Branch. He
was also a member and Class Representative of the Leadership
Montgomery (MD) Class of 2005.
Hill graduated with a degree in Social Studies from Wesleyan
University (CT), where he has served as an alumni-elected trustee.
He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Monday 9:30 AM How To Achieve Universal First Class Citizenship In The Digital Age
Cynthia Marshall
President,
AT&T North Carolina
Since 2007, Cynthia
Marshall has been
directly responsible for
AT&T North Carolina’s
regulatory, legislative
and community affairs
activities, while also
overseeing the operations
of 8,400 employees. She has nearly 30 years of experience in the
telecommunications industry, joining Pacific Bell in 1981.
Ms. Marshall is active in civic affairs at all levels. Nationally,
she serves on the Boards of Governors of the National Utilities
Diversity Council and of the Joint Center for Political and
Economic Studies. She also serves on the Boards of Trustees of
the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and of Bennett
College.
Deeply committed to advocacy for children in need of adoption
or who are in foster care placements, Ms. Marshall is a member
of the Board of the North Carolina Children’s Home Society. As
a strong believer in public education, she has led AT&T North
Carolina in focusing its corporate citizenship activities on dropout
prevention and on becoming the title sponsor of the North
Carolina Teacher of the Year program.
Marshall has received many awards and honors, including “Friend
of Education” from the North Carolina Association of Educators,
the Award of Excellence from the Thurgood Marshall Fund,
the Woman of Substance Award from Bennett College and the
Eagle Award from CareerFOCUS Magazine. She has received the
North Carolina Exceptional Leader Award from North Carolina
Magazine and been named a Woman Extraordinaire by Business
Leader magazine.
SPEAKERS
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Shirley Franklin
Executive Senior Advisor,
Alliance for Digital
Equality; former
Mayor of Atlanta
Former Atlanta Mayor
Shirley Franklin advises
executives of the Alliance
for Digital Equality
(ADE), a national
nonprofit consumer
advocacy organization, as they strengthen and expand its
programs. The ADE serves as a bridge between policymakers and
minority populations, helping people understand how legislative
and regulatory policies regarding new technologies can impact
and empower their daily lives. Franklin supports the organization
in facilitating and ensuring equal access to technology in unserved
and underserved communities.
Ms. Franklin was elected the first African-American woman
mayor of a major Southern city in 2001 and served two
terms. During her eight years as Mayor, Atlanta experienced
unprecedented population growth. Aside from her role as a public
official, Franklin’s community service in Atlanta spans more
than 35 years and includes her active participation in the arts,
homelessness and higher education.
Ms. Franklin currently holds the William and Camille Cosby
Professorship at Spelman College. She co-chairs the Regional
Commission on Homelessness, is Vice Chair of the Center of Civil
and Human Rights and serves on the board of the United Nations
Institute For Training and Research. Franklin holds a B.A. from
Howard University and an M.A. in Sociology from the University
of Pennsylvania.
Monday 11:30 AM A Conversation With FCC Commissioners

Henry M. Rivera

Partner, Wiley Rein LLP

Chair, MMTC

Henry Rivera specializes

in representing
telecommunications
and media companies in
legal matters before the
Federal Communications
Commission (FCC),
Congress, the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration and the
White House. Rivera has been named among the top 12 telecom
experts in the United States by Legal Media Group’s “Best of the
Best.”

He has served as an FCC Commissioner (1981-1985), as a

member of FCC and State Department Advisory Committees,
and on several U.S. delegations to international telecommu-
nications conferences. He is also a past president of the Federal
Communications Bar Association. Rivera, who serves on the
board of many charitable organizations, was a Founding Board
Member of Valor Telecommunications, the first Hispanic-owned
telephone company.

Rivera received his B.A. in Economics from the University of New

Mexico, and his J.D. from the University of New Mexico School
of Law, where he was Editor of the Natural Resources Journal. He
also received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting
from the University of Albuquerque. Rivera, who is a Vietnam
veteran and recipient of the Bronze Star, currently resides in
Arlington, VA with his spouse, Bernadette McGuire-Rivera, Ph.D.

SPEAKERS
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Monday 11:30 AM A Conversation With FCC Commissioners
Hon. Robert M.
McDowell
Commissioner,
Federal Communications
Commission
Robert M. McDowell was
first appointed to a seat on
the Federal Communications
Commission by President
George W. Bush and
unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 2006. When he was reappointed
to the Commission on June 2, 2009, Commissioner McDowell became
the first Republican to be appointed to an independent agency by
President Barack Obama. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate
on June 25, 2009.
During his time at the FCC, Commissioner McDowell has worked to
help consumers in the communications marketplace enjoy the benefits
of more choices, lower prices and useful innovations, through increased
competition. Creating opportunities for the construction of new delivery
platforms that will bring about such competition has been one of his top
priorities.
Commissioner McDowell brings to the FCC approximately 16 years of
private-sector experience in the communications industry. Immediately
prior to joining the FCC, he was Senior Vice President for the
Competitive Telecommunications Association (CompTel), an association
representing competitive, facilities-based telecommunications service
providers and their supplier partners. There he had responsibilities
involving advocacy efforts before Congress, the White House and
executive agencies. Prior to joining CompTel in February 1999,
McDowell served as the Executive Vice President and General Counsel
of America’s Carriers Telecommunications Association, which merged
with CompTel at that time. He has also served on the North American
Numbering Council and on the board of directors of North American
Numbering Plan Billing and Collection, Inc.
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McDowell was graduated cum laude from Duke University in 1985.
After serving as chief legislative aide to a member of the Virginia House
of Delegates, he attended the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the
College of William and Mary. Upon his graduation from law school,
McDowell joined the Washington, DC office of the national law firm of
Arter & Hadden.
Commissioner McDowell’s involvement in civic and political
affairs spans three decades. He was appointed by Virginia
Governor George Allen to the Governor’s Advisory Board for
a Safe and Drug-Free Virginia, and to the Virginia Board for
Contractors, where he served for eight years. A veteran of several
presidential campaigns, his work during the 1992 presidential
campaign is cited in the Almanac of American Politics, 1994.
Among many other endeavors, McDowell has twice been a
candidate for the Virginia General Assembly. He is a former
Chairman of the Board of the McLean Project for the Arts,
which strives to connect emerging artists with communities
in the Washington, DC region.
McDowell is admitted to practice law before the courts of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, the U.S. District Court for the
Eastern District of Virginia, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the
District of Columbia, First, Fourth and Fifth Circuits and the
U.S. Supreme Court. He resides in Fairfax County, VA, on what
is left of the farm where he grew up, with his wife Jennifer and
their three children.
Monday 11:30 AM A Conversation With FCC Commissioners

Hon. Meredith Before joining NTIA, Ms. Baker was Vice President at Williams
Attwell Baker Mullen Strategies, where she focused on telecommunications,
intellectual property and international trade issues. Earlier, she
Commissioner, held the positions of Senior Counsel to Covad Communications
Federal Communications from 2000 to 2002 and Director of Congressional Affairs at the
Commission Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association from 1998 to
2000. Ms. Baker worked at the U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit
Meredith Attwell Baker in Houston and later at the law firm of DeLange and Hudspeth,
was nominated by L.L.P. From 1990 to 1992, she worked in the Legislative Affairs
President Barack Obama Office of the U.S. Department of State in Washington.
as a member of the
Federal Communications Ms. Baker earned a B.A. degree from Washington & Lee
Commission on June 25, 2009 and was sworn in on July 31, 2009. University in 1990 and a law degree from the University of
Houston in 1994. She is a member of the Texas State Bar.
Ms. Baker most recently served as Acting Administrator and Ms. Baker and her husband Jamie reside in McLean, VA.
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and She has four stepdaughters.
Information of the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA), which is the President’s principal advisor
on telecommunications and information policy. Baker, who first
joined NTIA as a Senior Advisor in January 2004, was named
Deputy Assistant Secretary in February 2007. She also served as
Acting Associate Administrator for the Office of International
Affairs and was on detail to the Office of Science and Technology
Policy at the White House.

At NTIA, Ms. Baker advised and represented the Executive

Branch on both domestic and international telecommunications
and information policy activities. With a core mission to promote
market-based policies that encourage innovation and benefit
consumers, NTIA under Ms. Baker pursued the effective and
efficient utilization of the radiofrequency spectrum by the federal
government through its management of federal spectrum use.
It also performed cutting-edge telecommunications research
and engineering, and oversaw the management of the Internet’s
domain name and numbering system. Baker also administered the
coupon program to help facilitate the nation’s historic transition
to digital television. She has served on delegations representing
the United States at major international telecommunications
conferences and engaged in bilateral discussions with senior level
officials from countries around the world.

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Monday 11:30 AM A Conversation With FCC Commissioners

Hon. Mignon L.
Clyburn
Commissioner,
Federal Communications
Commission
Mignon L. Clyburn
was nominated as a
member of the Federal
Communications
Commission on June 25,
2009 and sworn in on August 3, 2009. Her term runs until
June 30, 2012.
Commissioner Clyburn has a long history of public service
and dedication to the public interest. Prior to her swearing
in as Commissioner, Ms. Clyburn served for 11 years as the
representative of South Carolina’s sixth district on the Public
Service Commission of South Carolina (PSC). She was sworn
in for her first term in July 1998 and was subsequently reelected
in 2002 and 2006. She served as chair of the PSC from July 2002
through June 2004.
During her tenure at the PSC, Commissioner Clyburn actively
participated in numerous national and regional state-based utility
organizations. Most recently, Ms. Clyburn served as the chair of
the Washington Action Committee of the National Association
of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and as a member of both
the Association’s Audit Committee and Utilities Market Access
Partnership Board. She is also a former chair of the Southeastern
Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.
For well over two decades, Commissioner Clyburn has been
actively involved in a myriad of community organizations.
Prior to her appointment at the FCC, she served on the South
Carolina State Energy Advisory Council, the Trident Technical
College Foundation, the South Carolina Cancer Center Board,
the Columbia College Board of Visitors and the Palmetto
Project Board (as Secretary/Treasurer). She has enjoyed previous
service as Chair of the YWCA of Greater Charleston and on the
boards of Reid House of Christian Service, Edventure Children’s
Museum, Trident Urban League and the Trident United Way.
In addition, Clyburn was previously appointed to the South
Carolina Education Oversight Committee’s Common Ground
School Improvement Committee and the Edventure Museum’s
South Carolina Great Friend to Kids Committee. She also is a Life
Member of the NAACP, and a member of The Links, Inc. and the
SC Advisory Council of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She
was past president of the Charleston County Democratic Women
and Black Women Entrepreneurs.
Commissioner Clyburn has received a number of honors and
awards, including being selected as the 2006 James C. Bonbright
Honoree (awarded by the Southeastern Energy Conference,
Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia). She also
received the 2007 Lincoln C. Jenkins Award for business and
community contributions presented by the Columbia (SC)
Urban League.

Commissioner Clyburn was elected to the South Carolina PSC

following 14 years as the publisher and general manager of
The Coastal Times, a Charleston-based weekly newspaper that
focused primarily on issues affecting the African-American
community. She owned and operated the family-founded
newspaper following her graduation from the University of
South Carolina, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree
in Banking, Finance & Economics.

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Monday 12:30 PM Telecommunications Policy Luncheon And Keynote Address

Maurita K. Coley Dorrissa Griffin

Executive Director, MMTC Law Clerk

Capital Area
Asset Builders;
Vice Chair, MMTC
Maurita K. Coley joined
Capital Area Asset
Builders (CAAB), a
nonprofit leader in asset
building and financial
literacy programs in
the DC metropolitan area, in March 2010. CAAB assists clients
in achieving their entrepreneurship, home ownership, higher
education and other financial goals. It also advocates on consumer
education policy at the federal and local levels.
Ms. Coley is a former partner with the Davis Wright Tremaine
and the Cole, Raywid & Braverman law firms. She is also a
principal in her own firm, Coley Law & Media, PLLC. In addition,
she has served in senior executive roles with the BET Networks.
Coley serves as MMTC’s Vice Chair and is actively involved with
the organization’s broadband, small business enterprise and access
to capital advocacy efforts. She holds a B.A. from Michigan State
University and a J.D. from Georgetown Law, where she was a 2005
recipient of an Outstanding Woman Alumnae award.
Ms. Griffin is currently
an actively involved third-
year law student at Florida
A & M University’s
(FAMU) College of
Law. Her interests are
international transactional
law and corporate law.
This summer, she was
appointed President of the FAMU Chapter of
the Christian Legal Society.
Griffin is the law clerk of MMTC President and Executive
Director David Honig, researching and writing about issues in
communications and civil rights law.
Ms. Griffin serves as Co-Chair of the Student Affairs Committee
of FAMU’s Student Body Association. Her honors include the
2009 FAMU Dean’s Top Performer Scholarship and the 2008
NAACP Agnes Johnson Graduate Scholar. Prior to attending law
school, she worked with AmeriCorps VISTA at a teen volunteer
center in Pensacola, FL. In 2006, Ms. Griffin graduated from the
University of West Florida with a bachelor’s degree in Business
Administration, with a specialization in Global Marketing. In
her spare time, she creates paintings and photographs; she enjoys
musical arts and is an avid Boston Celtics fan.

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Monday 12:30 PM Telecommunications Policy Luncheon And Keynote Address

Mark F. Dever Whitney Marshall

Partner, MMTC Law Clerk

Drinker, Biddle
& Reath LLP Whitney Marshall is a
rising third-year law
Mark Dever is a partner student at William and
in the Government Mary Law School. Since
and Regulatory Affairs attending law school,
Practice Group and Marshall has become a
a member of the member of the Business
Telecommunications Law Review, Black Law
and Mass Media Team. Student Association,
He has worked on a variety of communications regulatory and Sports and Entertainment Law Society, International Law Society,
appellate matters. Dever has advised clients of the firm on their and the Institute of the Bill of Rights. Previously, Marshall studied
participation in the FCC’s auctions of new wireless service abroad in China at Renmin University Law School. She interned
spectrum. He has also worked extensively on the development of for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, ACORN and
the FCC’s competitive bidding regulations. WFMY News 2. This is her second summer working for MMTC. 
 
In connection with his practice, Dever has represented a client Ms. Marshall received her undergraduate degree from Wake
in a number of federal appellate proceedings, treating complex Forest University.
administrative and constitutional law questions. He has also
authored several pleadings addressing communications privacy
issues and a broad array of other telecommunications policy
matters. Since the enactment of the Telecommunications Act
of 1996, he has assisted in the representation of clients in the
arbitration process to implement new local competition directives. 

Dever is a member of the American Bar Association and the

Federal Communications Bar Association. He graduated summa
cum laude with a B.A. from Boston College and received his J.D.
from Duke Law School, where he served on the Duke Journal of
Comparative & International Law.

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Monday 12:30 PM Telecommunications Policy Luncheon And Keynote Address

Cynthia Marshall Jannette L. Dates,

Ph.D.
President,
AT&T North Carolina Dean,
John H. Johnson School
Since 2007, Cynthia of Communications,
Marshall has been Howard University;
directly responsible for Member, MMTC
AT&T North Carolina’s Board of Directors
regulatory, legislative
and community affairs
Dr. Jannette L. Dates
activities, while also
served as a faculty
overseeing the operations
member and Associate
of 8,400 employees. She has nearly 30 years of experience in the
Dean in the Howard University Department of Radio, Television
telecommunications industry, joining Pacific Bell in 1981.
and Film prior to becoming Dean. She has been a frequent
speaker and panelist on top national television and radio
Ms. Marshall is active in civic affairs at all levels. Nationally,
programs on National Public Radio, CNN, C-SPAN and others,
she serves on the Boards of Governors of the National Utilities
where she discusses images of African Americans in the mass
Diversity Council and of the Joint Center for Political and
media.
Economic Studies. She also serves on the Boards of Trustees of
the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and of Bennett
Prior to her career at Howard, Dr. Dates served as anchor and
College.
executive producer of a weekly television magazine for WBAL-
TV and as a panelist for a weekly public affairs show on WJZ-TV,
Deeply committed to advocacy for children in need of adoption
both in Baltimore. In the 1990’s, she was a Fellow at the Freedom
or who are in foster care placements, Ms. Marshall is a member
Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University, where
of the Board of the North Carolina Children’s Home Society. As
her research focused on media images and effects, along with
a strong believer in public education, she has led AT&T North
the media’s treatment of women, African Americans and other
Carolina in focusing its corporate citizenship activities on dropout
groups.
prevention and on becoming the title sponsor of the North
Carolina Teacher of the Year program.
Dr. Dates co-edited the book, Split Image: African Americans in the
Marshall has received many awards and honors, including “Friend Mass Media, authoring six of the ten chapters. She has also written
of Education” from the North Carolina Association of Educators, about the significance of diversity in media industries and in
the Award of Excellence from the Thurgood Marshall Fund, higher education. She has written chapters for more than 15 books
the Woman of Substance Award from Bennett College and the and authored more than 16 peer-reviewed articles and numerous
Eagle Award from CareerFOCUS Magazine. She has received the general audience articles.
North Carolina Exceptional Leader Award from North Carolina
Magazine and been named a Woman Extraordinaire by Business
Leader magazine.

Marshall is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley,

where she earned degrees in Business Administration and Human
Resources Management. She and her husband Kenneth Marshall
have three teenagers.

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Monday 12:30 PM Telecommunications Policy Luncheon And Keynote Address
Nicol Turner-Lee,
Ph.D.
Vice President
and Director,
Media and
Technology Institute,
Joint Center for
Political and
Economic Studies; and roles in design,
Member, MMTC
Board of Directors and digital strategy,
Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee is the first Director of the Media and
Technology Institute, established in 2008 to study how broadband,
the media industry and emerging communications technologies
could become avenues of advancement for people of color.
Dr. Turner-Lee has also been an executive at One Economy,
a global nonprofit that uses the power of technology and
information to expand opportunities for low-income people.
She helped to establish broadband connections in thousands of
affordable housing units and expanded a national technology
service initiative from 250 to nearly 3,000 youth in less than
two years.
Before joining One Economy, Dr. Turner-Lee founded the
Neighborhood Technology Resource Center, a Chicago-based
nonprofit that provides public access to computers and the
Internet to thousands of low- and middle-income people. She
has served as the Board Chair of the Center for Economic
Progress, and is a member of the board for the Community
Renewal Society. In 2007, Broadband Properties magazine
named her to its list of the “Top 10 National Broadband
Promoters.”
Dr. Turner-Lee graduated with honors from Colgate University
and has a doctorate in Sociology from Northwestern University
and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the University
of Illinois-Chicago.
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Angela Benton
Publisher,
BlackWeb2.0
and Politic365
Angela Benton’s
experience spans a
variety of industries
marketing, development
with an expertise in new
media. She has worked at several InterActive Corp businesses,
including RealEstate.com, LendingTree.com, and RushmoreDrive.
com. Additionally, she has held roles at Bizjournals.com, UPS and
Homes of Color magazine.
Ms. Benton is currently the CEO of BlackWebMedia, whose
mission is to be a catalyst for innovation and inclusive ideas
on the Web for African Americans. The company publishes
BlackWeb2.0.com, the leading online publication for African
Americans interested in technology and new media.
Benton also speaks on topics such as diversity in the Web and
media industries, Web trends and strategy, and Web 2.0’s effects
on urban media. She also founded and chairs the New Media
Entrepreneurship Conference. Benton is one of Fast Company
magazine’s “Most Influential Women in Technology” for 2010
and was recently named as one of Ebony magazine’s “Power 150”
in the Technology and New Media category.
Ms. Benton graduated magna cum laude from American
InterContinental University with a B.F.A. in Visual Communi-
cations. She has also completed postgraduate coursework in
Graphic Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Monday 12:30 PM Telecommunications Policy Luncheon And Keynote Address

David Honig Linda Vilardo

President and Chief Administrative

Executive Director, Officer,
MMTC Radio One, Inc.;
Member, MMTC
David Honig co-founded Board of Advisors
the Minority Media and
Telecommunications Ms. Vilardo has been
Council (MMTC) in 1986 Chief Administrative
and now serves as its Officer of Radio One
President and Executive since November 2004.
Director. MMTC She has also been Vice
currently represents over 70 minority, civil rights and religious President of Radio One since February 2001 and the company’s
national organizations in selected proceedings before the FCC. It Assistant Secretary since April 1999. Up until January 2005, she
also operates the nation’s only full-service, minority-owned media also served as General Counsel.
and telecom brokerage.
Prior to joining Radio One, Ms. Vilardo represented Radio One as
Honig has practiced communications and civil rights law since outside counsel. She was a partner in the Washington, DC office
1983, specializing in electronic redlining and race discrimination of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. She was previously a shareholder
cases. He has taught and written extensively about issues in the of Roberts & Eckard, P.C., a firm that she co-founded in 1992.
intersection between civil rights and international and domestic
communications. The National Law Journal has named Honig one Ms. Vilardo is a graduate of Gettysburg College, the National Law
of the 30 most influential communications lawyers. Center at George Washington University and the University of
Glasgow. She is admitted to the District of Columbia Bar and the
Honig serves on the National Urban League’s Technology Bar of the United States Supreme Court.
Advisory Council and is Chair of the Constitutional Issues
Subcommittee of the FCC’s Advisory Committee on Diversity
for Communications in the Digital Age. He holds a B.A. in
Mathematics from Oberlin College, an M.S. in Systems Analysis
from the University of Rochester and a law degree cum laude from
Georgetown University.

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Monday 12:30 PM Telecommunications Policy Luncheon And Keynote Address

Hon. Jonathan S. Hon. Gloria Tristani

Adelstein
Of Counsel,
Administrator, Spiegel & McDiarmid
Rural Utilities Service, U.S. LLP; Member, MMTC
Department of Agriculture Board of Directors

Jonathan Adelstein was Among her

nominated by President
Obama and unanimously
confirmed by the U.S.
Senate in July 2009 to
serve as Administrator
of USDA’s Rural Utilities Service. He previously served as
Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission
from 2002 to 2009.
A life-long public servant, Adelstein has dedicated his career to
fighting for the public interest. As an FCC Commissioner, he
sought to secure access to communications for everyone, including
those left behind by the market. He also fought for media diversity
and localism, encouraging increased public access to the airwaves
to support a well-informed citizenry.
Adelstein has served as a national leader on combating the
negative effects of excessive commercialization in American
media. He has also been nationally recognized for his efforts to
promote family-friendly media and foster digital literacy. Before
joining the FCC, Adelstein served for fifteen years as a staff
member in the United States Senate.
accomplishments
as a former FCC
Commissioner (1997-
2001), Gloria Tristani
worked to accelerate
broadband deployment to rural and other underserved areas.
She was also an advocate for the E-Rate program, which provides
discounted Internet access to schools and libraries and served as
Chair of the FCC’s V-Chip Task Force. Ms. Tristani previously
served as the president of the Benton Foundation, where she
oversaw the Foundation’s work in educating policymakers,
academics and activists about their stakes in communications
policy.
In addition to her federal regulatory commission experience with
the FCC, Tristani also has experience working at the state level.
She served for several years on the New Mexico State Corporation
Commission, its first female member. She is a member of the
FCC Consumer Advisory Committee and a Board Member with
Children Now. Ms. Tristani earned a B.A. from Barnard College
and her J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law.

Prior to his service in the Senate, Adelstein was a Teaching Fellow

in the Department of History at Harvard University. He received
an M.A. in History and a B.A. in Political Science from Stanford
University. Adelstein currently lives with his wife Karen and two
children in the Washington, DC area.

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Monday 12:30 PM Telecommunications Policy Luncheon And Keynote Address

Jeff Valdez

Founder,
Sí TV; Co-Chairman
and board member,
Maya Entertainment

Jeff Valdez made history

in 2003 when he launched
Sí TV, America’s first
English-language, Latino-
themed cable network.
Sí TV is currently in
over 20 million households and boasts a lineup of award-winning
original programming, much of it created by Valdez. He oversaw
all operations for the critical first two years of the network and
continues to serve on its board.

In 2007, Mr. Valdez was named as Co-Chairman of Maya

Entertainment, a bilingual film distribution company focused
on the Latino youth market. Also in 2007, he joined forces
with legendary filmmaker David Zucker and started Sandbox
Entertainment, which is producing a series of G and PG-rated,
Latino-themed family movies. In addition to his other roles,
Valdez was named as the Chairman of Quepasa Corporation, a
bilingual social network aimed at the U.S. and Latin American
markets.

Because of his experience in the Latino market, Valdez is

very active as a keynote speaker and panelist for a variety of
conferences, organizations and Fortune 500 companies. CNN
named Mr. Valdez “One Of The Top 50 People Who Matter”
and Advertising Age called him one of the “Top 50 Marketers in
America.” He also received the Racial Harmony Award from the
Center For Ethnic Understanding and the Quasar Award from the
National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications, for
his pioneering efforts in creating Sí TV.

Mr. Valdez has served on the Advisory Committee on the Arts

of the John F. Kennedy Center and as a board member for the
Museum of the Moving Image and for the Los Angeles School for
the Performing Arts. He has been featured in several books and
articles about successful entrepreneurs who were able to achieve
heights even without a college education.

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Monday 2:30 PM Broadband And Social Justice Keynote
Manny Mirabal
Chair,
Hispanic Technology
and Telecommunications
Partnership
The Hispanic Technology
and Telecommunications
Partnership (HTTP) is
a coalition of national
Hispanic organizations
working to increase
awareness of the impact of technology and telecommunications
policy on the U.S. Hispanic community. Manny Mirabal founded
HTTP and has served as its Chair for 12 years.
Mirabal is President of Policy and Communications at Tonio
Burgos & Associates, a leading strategic planning and lobbying
firm. Prior to entering the private sector, he served in senior level
government positions. Mirabal has testified before Congress
and the FCC and has worked on federal issues on Capitol Hill
for fifteen years. He has a multifaceted background in national
policy issues and has served as chair of several influential national
boards, including the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda and
the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility.
Mr. Mirabal has also served as President of the National
Puerto Rican Coalition, the leading public policy organization
representing the Puerto Rican community in Washington, DC.
He has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential
Hispanics in the U.S. and one of the 25 most influential
Hispanics in Washington, DC.
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Rey Ramsey
President and CEO,
TechNet; Chairman,
One Economy
Corporation;
Member, MMTC
Board of Advisors
Rey Ramsey is the
President and CEO of
TechNet, the preeminent
bipartisan policy and
political network of executives leading U.S. technology companies.
TechNet promotes the growth of technology industries and the
economy by building long-term relationships between technology
leaders and policymakers. Ramsey, who assumed his position in
January 2010, oversees the organization’s day-to-day operations,
strategic planning and implementation of TechNet’s public policy
and political agenda.
Ramsey is also Co-Founder and Chair of the One Economy
Corporation, which leverages the power of technology and
information to connect low-income people to the economic
mainstream, by bringing broadband into their homes. The
company also produces public-purpose media and trains and
employs youth to enhance technological capacity in their
communities.
Ramsey has been on the forefront of the creation and distribution
of public-purpose media, most notably through the founding
of the Public Internet Channel. He has spent years creating
innovative partnerships between nonprofits, government and
the private sector.
Ramsey served as President and Chief Operating Officer of the
Enterprise Foundation. He serves on many boards, including the
Schnitzer Investment Corporation, the Local Initiatives Support
Corporation and the Washington Jesuit Academy, where he is
Vice-Chairman. Ramsey, who holds a bachelor’s degree in political
science from Rutgers University, is a graduate of the University of
Virginia Law School.
Monday 3:30 PM From The Mountaintop: Industry Leaders Address Digital Equality
Ari Q. Fitzgerald
Partner,
Hogan Lovells;
Secretary, MMTC
Ari Fitzgerald’s practice at
Hogan Lovells focuses on
spectrum policy, wireless,
satellite, international
communications and
Internet-related issues.
He also provides strategic
and legal advice on a wide range of telecommunications and
spectrum-related issues. Fitzgerald is a Director and Secretary of
MMTC and a member of its Policy Committee.
Fitzgerald joined what was then Hogan & Hartson from the FCC,
where he served as legal advisor to former Chairman William
Kennard. In that position, he advised the Chairman on wireless,
international and spectrum policy issues. Fitzgerald later served
as deputy chief of the FCC’s International Bureau, overseeing the
development of policies on international telecommunications,
foreign ownership, satellite services, spectrum allocation and
promotion of the Internet.
Prior to working at the FCC, Fitzgerald was in the U.S.
Department of Justice, counseling the White House and federal
government agencies on constitutional and administrative law
matters. He serves on the Boards of Directors of Crown Castle
International and the Duke Ellington Fund, which secures private
financial support for a public high school for the performing arts.
He also serves on the advisory boards of Spectrum Bridge, Mobile
Future and incNetworks.
Fitzgerald received his B.A. from Harvard College and his J.D.
from Yale Law School.
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Dean C. Garfield
President and CEO,
Information Technology
Industry Council
Dean C. Garfield was
elected President and
CEO of the Information
Technology Industry
Council in October
2008. As the premier
voice, advocate and
thought leader for the information and communications (ICT)
sector, Garfield regards innovation as the key driver for the private
sector becoming more prominent in spurring sustainable job
growth in the United States. 
Garfield has also served as Executive Vice President and Chief
Strategic Officer for the Motion Picture Association of America.
Before that, Garfield was Vice President of Legal Affairs at the
Recording Industry Association of America.
As one of the nation’s preeminent leaders in promoting innovation
and education as the keys to American global competitiveness,
Garfield was awarded with the first REACH Breaking Barriers
Award in May 2010. He is a regular contributor on the Huffington
Post and has been featured in several national and Beltway
publications representing the ICT industry.
Garfield received a joint degree from New York University School
of Law and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Administration
and International Affairs at Princeton University. He lives in
Washington, DC with his wife and two children.
Monday 3:30 PM From The Mountaintop: Industry Leaders Address Digital Equality
Walter B.
McCormick, Jr.
President and CEO,
United States Telecom
Association
A respected Washington
veteran with more than
25 years of experience
in telecommunications,
Walter B. McCormick,
Jr. is the head of the
nation’s premier broadband trade association representing
service providers and suppliers in the new telecommunications
marketplace. He has guided the evolution of the United States
Telecom Association (USTelecom) into one of the top trade
associations in the nation’s capital. Washingtonian magazine has
profiled him as a trade association executive with “real clout.”
Prior to joining USTelecom, McCormick served as President &
CEO of the American Trucking Associations. His background
also includes service as General Counsel to both the U.S.
Department of Transportation and the Senate Committee on
Commerce, Science and Transportation.
McCormick is a member of the President’s National Security
Telecommunications Advisory Committee, the Board of Trustees
of Rockhurst University and the Federal Communications Bar
Association.
McCormick holds degrees in journalism and law from the
University of Missouri. He has studied international economics
and political science at Georgetown University and has completed
the program for senior managers in government at Harvard
University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Kyle E. McSlarrow
President and CEO,
National Cable &
Telecommunications
Association (NCTA)
Kyle McSlarrow has
been the cable industry’s
primary public policy
advocate in Washington,
DC since 2005. He
represents the industry’s
interests before Congress, the FCC and the White House.
In 2007, McSlarrow was appointed to serve on the President’s
National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee,
which informs and advises the President on telecommunications
issues affecting national security and emergency preparedness.
Prior to joining NCTA, McSlarrow served as Deputy Secretary
of the U.S. Department of Energy, supervising a diverse portfolio
that included the development of advanced technology to
strengthen the nation’s energy and homeland security. He has held
numerous positions in the political arena, including serving as the
National Chairman for the Quayle 2000 Presidential Campaign
and as Chief of Staff to the late U.S. Senator Paul Coverdell.
Before moving to Capitol Hill in 1995, McSlarrow was an associate
with the Washington, DC law firm of Hunton & Williams. He
earned degrees from Cornell University and the University of
Virginia School of Law. McSlarrow, his wife Alison and their
children live in Fairfax County, VA.
Monday 3:30 PM From The Mountaintop: Industry Leaders Address Digital Equality

Hon. Gordon H.
Smith

President and CEO,

National Association
of Broadcasters

Gordon Smith joined the

National Association of
Broadcasters (NAB) in
November 2009. Prior to
joining NAB, he served as
a two-term U.S. Senator
from Oregon and later as a senior advisor in the Washington, DC
offices of Covington & Burling, LLP.

During his tenure in the U.S. Senate, Smith’s committee

assignments included the Senate Commerce, Science and
Transportation Committee, the panel that oversees all broadcast-
related legislation. He also served on the Senate Energy and
Natural Resources Committee, the Senate Finance Committee
and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Smith’s role on
the Commerce Committee and as Chairman of a Senate High
Tech Task Force helped foster his interest in new media and new
technology issues.

Smith attended Brigham Young University, received his law degree

from Southwestern University School of Law, and practiced law in
New Mexico and Arizona before returning to Oregon to direct the
family-owned Smith Frozen Foods. Before his election to the U.S.
Senate in 1996, he rose to the position of President of the Oregon
State Senate. Smith and his wife Sharon live in Bethesda, MD; they
have two children and one grandchild.

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 HALL OF FAME AWARDS
Monday 5:30 PM Thirteenth Annual MMTC Hall Of Fame Reception
Henry M. Rivera
Partner, Wiley Rein LLP
Chair, MMTC
Henry Rivera specializes
in representing
telecommunications
and media companies in
legal matters before the
Federal Communications
Commission (FCC),
Congress, the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration and the
White House. Rivera has been named among the top 12 telecom
experts in the United States by Legal Media Group’s “Best of
the Best.”
He has served as an FCC Commissioner (1981-1985), as a
member of FCC and State Department Advisory Committees,
and on several U.S. delegations to international telecommu-
nications conferences. He is also a past president of the Federal
Communications Bar Association. Rivera, who serves on the
board of many charitable organizations, was a Founding Board
Member of Valor Telecommunications, the first Hispanic-owned
telephone company.
Rivera received his B.A. in Economics from the University of New
Mexico, and his J.D. from the University of New Mexico School
of Law, where he was Editor of the Natural Resources Journal. He
also received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting
from the University of Albuquerque. Rivera, who is a Vietnam
veteran and recipient of the Bronze Star, currently resides in
Arlington, VA with his spouse, Bernadette McGuire-Rivera, Ph.D.
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Hon. Michael J.
Copps
Commissioner,
Federal Communications
Commission
Michael J. Copps was
nominated for a second
term as a member of the
Federal Communications
Commission on November
9, 2005 and was sworn in on January 3, 2006. His term runs until
June 30, 2010. He was sworn in for his first term on May 31, 2001.
Mr. Copps served from 1998 until January 2001 as Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development at the U.S.
Department of Commerce. In that role, he worked to improve
market access and market share for nearly every sector of
American industry, including information technologies and
telecommunications. Copps devoted much of his time to building
private-sector/public-sector partnerships to enhance our nation’s
success in the global economy. From 1993 to 1998, he served as
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Basic Industries, a component of
the Trade Development Unit.
Mr. Copps moved to Washington in 1970, joined the staff of
Senator Fritz Hollings (D-SC) and served for more than a dozen
years as Administrative Assistant and Chief of Staff. From 1985 to
1989, he served as Director of Government Affairs for a Fortune
500 company. From 1989 to 1993, he was Senior Vice President for
Legislative Affairs at a major national trade association.
Copps, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, received a B.A. from
Wofford College and earned a Ph.D. in United States History from
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He taught U.S.
History at Loyola University of the South from 1967 to 1970. He
and his wife Beth have five children and five grandchildren.
 HALL OF FAME AWARDS
Monday 5:30 PM Thirteenth Annual MMTC Hall Of Fame Reception
Angela Benton
Publisher,
BlackWeb2.0
and Politic365
Angela Benton’s
experience spans a variety
of industries and roles
in design, marketing,
development and
digital strategy, with an
expertise in new media.
She has worked at several InterActive Corp businesses, including
RealEstate.com, LendingTree.com, and RushmoreDrive.com.
Additionally, she has held roles at Bizjournals.com, UPS and
Homes of Color magazine.
Ms. Benton is currently the CEO of BlackWebMedia, whose
mission is to be a catalyst for innovation and inclusive ideas
on the Web for African Americans. The company publishes
BlackWeb2.0.com, the leading online publication for African
Americans interested in technology and new media.
Benton also speaks on topics such as diversity in the Web and
media industries, Web trends and strategy, and Web 2.0’s effects
on urban media. She also founded and chairs the New Media
Entrepreneurship Conference. Benton is one of Fast Company
magazine’s “Most Influential Women in Technology” for 2010
and was recently named as one of Ebony magazine’s “Power 150”
in the Technology and New Media category.
Ms. Benton graduated magna cum laude from American
InterContinental University with a B.F.A. in Visual Communi-
cations. She has also completed postgraduate coursework in
Graphic Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Kristal High
President,
Media Foundation Group
Kristal High is the
President of Media
Foundation Group, a
production and design
firm specializing in
multimedia production,
identity systems and new
media consultations.
She is also the Founder of Pocketbook Protest, a digitally-
based advocacy organization that uses technology to empower
minorities to strategically leverage their collective economic
power.
Prior to joining Media Foundation Group, High was an attorney
in the Labor & Employment Group of LeClair Ryan, where
her practice primarily focused on employment and business
litigation. She has also served on the Boards of Directors for the
African American Repertory Theater and the Elegba Folklore
Society, a performing arts organization focused on engaging
minority communities through innovative encounters with
theatre, song and dance.
High obtained her B.A. from Davidson College, with a major in
Theatre and a concentration in Ethnic Studies. She obtained her
J.D. from Washington & Lee School of Law, where she founded
and served as President of the Media Law Students Association.
 HALL OF FAME AWARDS

Monday 5:30 PM Thirteenth Annual MMTC Hall Of Fame Reception

Rey Ramsey Joycelyn F. James

President and CEO, Cathy Hughes Fellow,

TechNet; Chairman,
One Economy
Corporation; As MMTC’s Cathy Hughes
Member, MMTC
Board of Advisors focuses on rules and
Rey Ramsey is the
President and CEO of
TechNet, the preeminent
bipartisan policy and
political network of executives leading U.S. technology companies.
TechNet promotes the growth of technology industries and the
economy by building long-term relationships between technology
leaders and policymakers. Ramsey, who assumed his position in
January 2010, oversees the organization’s day-to-day operations,
strategic planning and implementation of TechNet’s public policy
and political agenda.
Ramsey is also Co-Founder and Chair of the One Economy
Corporation, which leverages the power of technology and
information to connect low-income people to the economic
mainstream, by bringing broadband into their homes. The
company also produces public-purpose media and trains and
employs youth to enhance technological capacity in their
communities.
MMTC
Fellow, Joycelyn James
policies that impact the
advancement of minority
entrepreneurship in
the nation’s media and
telecommunications industries. James is admitted to the bar in
Maryland and holds memberships in the Federal Communications
Bar Association and the Greater Washington Area Chapter,
Women Lawyers Division of the National Bar Association.
James is a graduate of the Catholic University of America
Columbus School of Law, where she obtained a certificate from
the Institute for Communications Law Studies. While in law
school, she interned at the Federal Communications Commission
and the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Prior to
her legal education, she graduated from Howard University with
a B.A. in Communications, concentrating in Radio, Television
and Film.

Ramsey has been on the forefront of the creation and distribution

of public-purpose media, most notably through the founding
of the Public Internet Channel. He has spent years creating
innovative partnerships between nonprofits, government and
the private sector.

Ramsey served as President and Chief Operating Officer of the

Enterprise Foundation. He serves on many boards, including the
Schnitzer Investment Corporation, the Local Initiatives Support
Corporation and the Washington Jesuit Academy, where he is
Vice-Chairman. Ramsey, who holds a bachelor’s degree in political
science from Rutgers University, is a graduate of the University of
Virginia Law School.

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Monday 8:15 PM Colloquium: Building A National Movement Of Minority Digital Entrepreneurs

Patrick Gusman

Executive Director,
TechNetWorks

Patrick Gusman is the

Executive Director of
TechNetWorks, the newly
created, nonprofit arm of
TechNet, the bipartisan,
political network of CEO’s
and senior executives that
promotes the growth of technology and the innovation economy.
TechNetWorks serves as a link between the innovation sector and
the government and nonprofit sectors; it will harness innovation
and technology to help solve real problems facing our nation.

Prior to his appointment at TechNetWorks, Mr. Gusman was

the Senior Vice President of Innovation and Chief Innovation
Officer at the National Urban League. He created and managed
the organization’s social media initiatives, steered strategic
planning and directed its Information Technology Services. His
special focus was on ensuring that communities of color have
the full opportunity to benefit from the new green economy and
broadband technology.

Before his entry into the nonprofit sector, Gusman had a long
international career in the auto industry. His roles included
Managing Director of Chrysler Financial France and Project
Manager for a series of regional and global initiatives within the
DaimlerChrysler Group. Gusman has a J.D. from Georgetown
University Law Center and a Bachelor of Business Administration
degree in Finance and French from the University of Notre Dame.

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Tuesday 8:00 AM Entrepreneurship Breakfast: The Jump From Broadcasting And Publishing To Online Media

Joseph S. Miller Kristal High

Policy Counsel,
Media and Technology
Institute, Joint Center for
Political and Economic
Studies
Mr. Miller focuses on
telecommunications,
Internet and media at the
Joint Center’s Media and
Technology Institute. Prior
to becoming a lawyer, he worked in advertising sales, production
and music research at New York City radio stations, including the
legendary WQXR-FM. Upon obtaining his J.D., he worked at
CBS-TV in New York, then went to work for Pace University,
where he served as the Assistant Director of Pace’s business
incubator program for early-stage companies located in New York
Economic Development Zones.
Miller served as the Earle K. Moore Fellow at MMTC from 2008
to 2010. He earned a B.S. in Mass Communications from the State
University of New York at Plattsburgh. While attending New York
Law School, he edited its Media Law & Policy journal. He served
as a Law Student Associate at Sun Microsystems. Mr. Miller is a
trained musician who attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High
School for Music and Art and the Performing Arts. He lives in
northern Virginia with his wife and daughter.
President,
Media Foundation Group
Kristal High is the
President of Media
Foundation Group, a
production and design
firm specializing in
multimedia production,
identity systems and new
media consultations.
She is also the Founder of Pocketbook Protest, a digitally-
based advocacy organization that uses technology to empower
minorities to strategically leverage their collective economic
power.
Prior to joining Media Foundation Group, High was an attorney
in the Labor & Employment Group of LeClair Ryan, where
her practice primarily focused on employment and business
litigation. She has also served on the Boards of Directors for the
African American Repertory Theater and the Elegba Folklore
Society, a performing arts organization focused on engaging
minority communities through innovative encounters with
theatre, song and dance.
High obtained her B.A. from Davidson College, with a major in
Theatre and a concentration in Ethnic Studies. She obtained her
J.D. from Washington & Lee School of Law, where she founded
and served as President of the Media Law Students Association.

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Tuesday 8:00 AM Entrepreneurship Breakfast: The Jump From Broadcasting And Publishing To Online Media

Hon. Bobby L. Rush Mark R. Fratrik,

U.S. Representative
U.S. Representative
Bobby L. Rush is a senior
member of the Illinois
delegation, where he
represents the state’s
first Congressional
district. He is a senior
member of the powerful
Energy and Commerce
Committee and is in his second two-year term as Chairman of its
Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
In addition to effectively shepherding the bipartisan adoption
of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008,
Rush also played a leading role in helping to craft historic health
insurance reform legislation in Congress. With respect to trade,
Congressman Rush is identifying new international markets
to help expand America’s trade interests throughout the world,
including trade with the continent of Africa. He launched the
African Partnership for Economic Growth Caucus, whose primary
mission is to strengthen U.S. relations with Sub-Saharan Africa by
promoting growth and economic development.
During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s, Congressman
Rush worked to secure basic civil and human rights for African
Americans, women and other minorities. He was a member of
the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and was a co-
founder of the Illinois Black Panther Party. Prior to his election
to Congress, Rush was an Alderman in the Chicago City Council,
representing the 2nd Ward on Chicago’s South Side. He helped
pass significant environmental protection, gun control and
neighborhood development legislation.
Ph.D.
Vice President,
BIA Financial Network
Mark Fratrik supervises
the maintenance of the
many BIAfn databases
and conducts primary
research on various
trends as they affect the
broadcasting and related
communications industries. He also conducts research and
analysis for clients on broadcasting and communications related
matters. He is the author of BIAfn’s acclaimed State of the Radio
and Television Industry studies.
Prior to joining BIAfn, Dr. Fratrik was a Vice President/Economist
with the National Association of Broadcasters for nearly 16
years. While there, he conducted primary research and wrote
several books about the broadcasting and related industries.
Before joining the NAB, Fratrik worked for the Federal Trade
Commission in the Bureau of Economics, conducting analyses
of industry practices to evaluate their overall economic impact.
Dr. Fratrik received his B.A. in Mathematics and Economics
from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his
master’s and doctoral degrees in Economics from Texas A&M.
He is currently an adjunct professor of economics at Johns
Hopkins University.

Congressman Rush, an ordained Baptist minister, received a

bachelor’s degree in general studies, with honors, from Roosevelt
University in Chicago. He received a master’s degree in Political
Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a master’s
degree in Theological Studies from McCormick Seminary. Rush
has received honorary doctorate degrees from Virginia University
of Lynchburg and Roosevelt University. He is the pastor of Beloved
Community Christian Church and has been married to his
wife Carolyn for 26 years.

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Tuesday 8:00 AM Entrepreneurship Breakfast: The Jump From Broadcasting And Publishing To Online Media
Anita Stephens
Graham
General Partner,
Opportunity Capital
Partners
Ms. Graham has more than
20 years of experience at
management levels in the
private equity and banking
industries, including at
Opportunity Capital Partners (OCP), a private equity firm with
$135 million of capital under management. OCP focuses on
providing later-stage growth equity to companies primarily in the
telecommunications, media, industrial services and healthcare
industries.
Ms. Graham has made direct investments in an array of sectors,
leading transactions that total more than $60 million. These
sectors include wireless broadband services, fixed wireless
systems, publishing systems and services, multimedia content
providers, enterprise software, radio and television broadcasting
and medical devices. Prior to joining OCP, Graham served as
the President of Renaissance Capital Corporation, a specialized
investment company that provided equity to small, middle-market
companies.
Graham currently serves on the FCC Advisory Committee on
Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age. She also serves
as the Chairman of the National Association of Investment
Companies and is on the Advisory Board of Pacific Community
Ventures, a fund that targets underserved markets, primarily
in California. Graham has a B.A. in Economics from Cornell
University and an Executive M.B.A. from Golden Gate University.
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Navarrow Wright
President,
Maximum Leverage
Solutions
Navarrow Wright is
President and CEO of
Maximum Leverage
Solutions, a consulting firm
that focuses on Internet
and social media strategies,
along with technology
development. In 2007, Wright partnered with hip-hop mogul
Russell Simmons and Accel Partners to create Global Grind, a
social-media site catering to an urban, hip-hop audience.
Before founding Global Grind, Wright was Senior V.P. of
Technology for Digitas Health. Prior to that, he served as Chief
Technology Officer of Viacom’s BET Interactive, creating and
implementing new technologies that made BET.com the leading
online entertainment destination for African Americans.
With more than 17 years of experience in the technology and
media industry, Wright has established himself as one of the
premier technology experts in Internet and media. He was picked
by The Network Journal magazine as one of the “40 Under 40”
professionals to watch in 2009. Wright blogs about technology
and entrepreneurship on his own blog, on BlackWeb2.0 and
on the Huffington Post. You can follow him on Twitter under @
navarrowwright. Wright holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science
from Rider University.
Tuesday 8:00 AM Entrepreneurship Breakfast: The Jump From Broadcasting And Publishing To Online Media

Jerry L. Johnson

Vice President,
RLJ Equity Partners

Jerry L. Johnson joined

RLJ Equity Partners,
a private equity firm
founded by Robert L.
Johnson and the Carlyle
Group, in 2007. The firm
invests in a broad range of
sectors, including business
and government services, transportation and media. It acquires
control positions in companies with enterprise values of between
$75 and $300 million.

In 2004, Mr. Johnson was appointed by President George W. Bush

as a White House Fellow to serve as a Special Assistant to then
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Johnson was awarded the
Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service for his
work on the Quadrennial Defense Review.

Mr. Johnson has also been an investment banker with Donaldson,

Lufkin & Jenrette and a consultant with McKinsey & Company.
His civic involvement encompasses leadership roles with a wide
range of organizations, including the NEA Foundation, Global
Kids, the White House Fellows Foundation and the FCC Capital
Access Working Group.

Mr. Johnson received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School

and his B.S. in Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, from
the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In 2009, he was honored
with the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of
Tennessee.

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Tuesday 9:30 AM Creating, Financing And Building A Startup Company
Erwin G. Krasnow
Partner,
Garvey Schubert Barer;
Vice Chair, MMTC
Erwin Krasnow’s
experience in commu-
nications law is unusually
extensive. He has been
described as “a dean
of the Washington
communications bar”
by the Legal Times, as a “super lawyer of communications” by
American Film magazine, and as “the guru of communications
law” by the Broadcast Cable Financial Journal. In March 2010,
for the third year in a row, Krasnow was selected for inclusion in
the Washington, DC edition of Super Lawyers magazine, in the
Communications category.
Mr. Krasnow has represented sellers and buyers of broadcasting,
cable and telecommunications properties in transactions
totaling in excess of $21 billion. He was the Founding Director
and Vice Chairman of Broadcast Capital, Inc., a minority
broadcast investment fund. He is a Director and Vice Chair of
MMTC, Washington Counsel to the Broadcast Cable Financial
Management Association, former Trustee of the Federal
Communications Bar Association Foundation and Past President
of the Library of American Broadcasting. He is also the co-author
of several books.
In 2004, Krasnow was inducted into the MMTC Hall of Fame
for his “many years of exceptional contributions to the diversity
and success of America’s most influential and most important
industries.”
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Eric Broyles, Esq.
Founder & CEO,
Megree, Inc.
Mr. Boyles is leading the
execution of the strategic
vision of the networking
utility megree.com, a
social media tool that
helps non-profit and
humanitarian organi-
zations show their
benefactors and potential benefactors how they are personally
connected to beneficiaries of those organizations. The site,
currently in beta development, enables people to use global
social connections to solve problems such as hunger, violence
and poverty.
Prior to founding Megree, Broyles served as a senior executive
at Gerson Lehrman Group, which manages the world’s largest
network of investment assessment experts. Mr. Broyles was
formerly a corporate attorney at America Online, Inc. and an
associate with the Communications Group of Skadden, Arps,
Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP. He has represented numerous radio
and television station owners in both regulatory and transactional
matters.
Broyles is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of
Cincinnati and a graduate of the University of Virginia School of
Law, where he served as the Business Editor of the Virginia Journal
of Law & Politics. Broyles currently serves on the Law School’s
Alumni Council Board and on the Board of Directors for the
Choral Arts Society of Washington, DC.
Tuesday 9:30 AM Creating, Financing And Building A Startup Company
Juan Pablo Giometti
President and CEO,
National Hispanic
Entrepreneurs’
Organization, Inc.
The National Hispanic
Entrepreneurs’
Organization (NHEO)
is a fast-growing social
enterprise that fosters
entrepreneurship and
social innovation among Hispanics through educating, mentoring
and networking. In addition to leading NHEO, Mr. Giometti
is also Managing Director of The Latin Focus, a media and
marketing consulting firm with R&D and call centers in
Latin America.
In 2006, Mr. Giometti founded Viva Carolina, a multimedia
Latino network that was later acquired by The Latin Focus. Prior
to that, he held global managerial positions for Fortune 500
companies including NMHG, IBM, Pepsi Bottling Group and
Motorola. He is a frequent speaker, author and conference leader
on entrepreneurship matters and has been quoted in national
publications such as Business Week, Entrepreneur, Hispanic
Executive Quarterly and USA Today, and on CNN en Español and
AOL Latino.
Giometti serves on the boards of University City Partners
and Charlotte School of Law. He is also a strategic advisor for
Grameen America and the Ben Craig Center Incubator. He holds
a bachelor’s degree from Universidad Catolica Argentina, an
M.B.A. from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School and an M.B.A.
from Recanati Business School at Tel-Aviv University.
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David Grain
Founder & CEO,
Grain Communications
Group, Inc.
The core business of
Grain Communications
Group, Inc. (GCGI),
the company Mr. Grain
founded, is to acquire,
build, own and operate
wireless communications
tower sites specifically developed for federal and state government
wireless systems throughout the United States. Prior to forming
GCGI, Mr. Grain served as President of Global Signal, Inc., one of
the largest independent wireless communications tower companies
in North America, from its emergence from bankruptcy through
its operational turnaround. Under Grain’s leadership, Global
Signal grew its portfolio from approximately 2,000 towers to more
than 11,000 communication sites in all 50 states, Canada and the
United Kingdom.
Grain has also served as Senior Vice President of AT&T
Broadband’s New England Region, the third-largest cable cluster
in the United States. He spent more than a decade in the financial
services industry, including at Morgan Stanley in New York,
where he focused primarily on telecommunications, media and
technology companies.
Mr. Grain is an active member of Business Executives for National
Security. He earned a B.A. degree in English from the College of
the Holy Cross in 1984 and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School
of Business at Dartmouth College in 1989, with a concentration in
Finance and Business Strategy.
Tuesday 9:30 AM Creating, Financing And Building A Startup Company

H. Edward Young, Jr.

CEO,
40A, Inc.

Mr. Young has become

known for his unique eye
for extraordinary new and
old media content and
operational turnaround.
He is also a specialist
in cross-branding and
advertiser procurement.
Strategies that he developed in the early nineties are now seen as
standard operating procedure. Currently, Young is the CEO of the
software company 40A, Inc., which has developed affinity browser
technology that is featured in the Blackbird browser, which makes
it easier to find African American-related content on the Internet
and for members of the African American community to interact
online.

Mr. Young is one of the founders of The Source magazine. Over

an 11-year period, he took the publication from approximately
$25,000 in revenue to in excess of $20 million annually. He
also performed a successful turnaround as the CEO of Mighty
Seven Networks, an online customer-acquisition and marketing
company.

Mr. Young has served on the National Endowment for the Arts
literary magazine. He is also a board member of The Institute for
Entrepreneurial Leadership. Young is a magna cum laude graduate
of Harvard University and lives in New Jersey with his wife and
their son.

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Tuesday 10:30 AM Remarks from the Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

Henry M. Rivera

Partner, Wiley Rein LLP

Chair, MMTC

Henry Rivera specializes

in representing
telecommunications
and media companies in
legal matters before the
Federal Communications
Commission (FCC),
Congress, the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration and the
White House. Rivera has been named among the top 12 telecom
experts in the United States by Legal Media Group’s “Best of
the Best.”

He has served as an FCC Commissioner (1981-1985), as a

member of FCC and State Department Advisory Committees,
and on several U.S. delegations to international telecommu-
nications conferences. He is also a past president of the Federal
Communications Bar Association. Rivera, who serves on the
board of many charitable organizations, was a Founding Board
Member of Valor Telecommunications, the first Hispanic-owned
telephone company.

Rivera received his B.A. in Economics from the University of New

Mexico, and his J.D. from the University of New Mexico School
of Law, where he was Editor of the Natural Resources Journal. He
also received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting
from the University of Albuquerque. Rivera, who is a Vietnam
veteran and recipient of the Bronze Star, currently resides in
Arlington, VA with his spouse, Bernadette McGuire-Rivera, Ph.D.

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Tuesday 10:30 AM Remarks from the Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

Hon. Julius Genachowski has been active at the intersection of social

Genachowski responsibility and the marketplace. He was part of the founding
group of New Resource Bank, which specializes in serving
Chairman, the needs of green entrepreneurs and sustainable businesses.
Federal He has also served on the Advisory Board of Environmental
Communications Entrepreneurs (E2). He served as a board member of Common
Commission Sense Media, a leading non-partisan, nonprofit organization
seeking to improve the media lives of children and families.
Julius Genachowski
was nominated Genachowski received a J.D. from Harvard Law School (magna
by President Barack cum laude), where he was Co-Notes Editor of the Harvard Law
Obama as Chairman Review. He received a B.A. from Columbia College (magna
of the Federal cum laude), where he was Editor of Columbia Daily Spectator’s
Communications Commission on March 3, 2009 and sworn Broadway Magazine, re-established Columbia’s oldest newspaper
into office on June 29, 2009. (Acta Columbiana), and was a writer and researcher for Fred
Friendly. He was also a certified Emergency Medical Technician
who taught cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and served on
Chairman Genachowski has two decades of experience in public
the Columbia Area Volunteer Ambulance.
service and the private sector. Prior to his appointment, he spent
more than 10 years working in the technology industry as an
executive and entrepreneur. He co-founded LaunchBox Digital Genachowski, a son of immigrants, is married to Rachel Goslins
and Rock Creek Ventures (where he served as Managing Director) and has three children.
and he was a Special Advisor at General Atlantic. In these
capacities, he worked to start, accelerate and invest in early- and
mid-stage technology and other companies. From 1997-2005,
he was a senior executive at IAC/InterActiveCorp, a Fortune
500 company, where his positions included Chief of Business
Operations and General Counsel.

Genachowski’s public service spans broadly across government.

His confirmation as FCC Chairman returns him to the agency
where, from 1994 until 1997, he served as Chief Counsel to FCC
Chairman Reed Hundt, and before that, as Special Counsel to
then-FCC General Counsel (later Chairman) William Kennard.
Previously, he was a law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice
David Souter and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. (ret.). He clerked
at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for Chief Judge
Abner Mikva. Genachowski also worked in Congress for then-U.S.
Representative (now Senator) Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) and
on the staff of the House Select Committee investigating the Iran-
Contra Affair.

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Ronald Johnson Thomas Power

President, Chief of Staff,

Ronson Network Services; National
Member, MMTC Telecommunications
Board of Directors and Information
Administration (NTIA),
In Ronald Johnson’s more U.S. Department of
than 30 years of business Commerce
ownership experience, he
has developed numerous Tom Power joined NTIA
government and private- in April 2009 after serving
sector relationships in the for nine years as General
telecommunication and defense industries. His company, Ronson Counsel of Fiberlink Communications in Blue Bell, PA. He also
Network Services, provides engineering, infrastructure and served in several managerial roles at the Federal Communications
network installation services for carriers, providers and OEM’s. Commission (FCC) before being named Senior Legal Adviser to
Mr. Johnson is an advocate for strengthening the participation of then-FCC Chairman William Kennard, advising the Chairman
Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other minority on broadband, common carrier and mass media matters. Before
institutions in the telecommunications and defense industries. joining the FCC, Power was a telecommunications and litigation
partner at Winston & Strawn.
Mr. Johnson was appointed to the FCC Committee on Diversity
in the Digital Age and served as a subject-matter expert on He received his undergraduate and law degrees from the
broadband and economic recovery to the Obama Transition University of Virginia.  
Team. Johnson has served in appointed positions during the
terms of five former Virginia governors. He is also beginning his
11th year as an appointed Commissioner of the Fairfax County
Economic Development Authority, where he leads its small and
minority business initiatives. He has served with distinction
with the Alexandria Urban League Board, American Society for
Public Administration and the Conference of Minority Public
Administrators.

Mr. Johnson holds a B.A. in Political Science from Virginia State

University; an M.A. in Political Science from the University
of Cincinnati; an M.Ed. in Business Education from Xavier
University (Ohio); and an honorary doctorate from Virginia State
University.

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Alithia Bruinton Michelle Hankston

Associate Director, Regional Buyer Analyst,

AT&T Supplier Diversity Time Warner Cable
Programs
Ms. Hankston started her
Ms. Bruinton is career with Time Warner
responsible for developing Cable almost 11 years ago
and implementing at the company’s Maine
strategies for AT&T’s division. She has also
Supplier Diversity worked in the Western
Channel Management Ohio division as a Buyer
Team. She has more and in the Charlotte
than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, corporate office as a member of the Technology Service Group.
with professional expertise in the areas of supply chain inclusion,
network management and product management. Now a Regional Buyer Analyst with the East Region, she supports
the Carolina market. Her primary duties are procurement of all
Bruinton has served local communities and led a Women of customer premise equipment and contract administration. She
Color Program within AT&T, designed to grow woman-owned is helping to develop a Minority Supplier Program for the East
businesses. Currently in the AT&T Leadership Program, she Region.
has been recognized by AT&T for her exceptional talent and
leadership capabilities. Hankston, who graduated from Southern Maine Community
College, lives in Charlotte with her son and daughter.
Ms. Bruinton has attained a Greenbelt Certification in the Six
Sigma business management strategy. She is a board member of
the Supplier Diversity Development Council and a team member
of the Women Presidents’ Educational Organization.

Bruinton has earned a B.S. in Business and an M.S. in Technology

Management. She has also attended Executive Management
programs at Harvard Business School, where she received
extensive training in leadership, performance development and
managing upward.

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Ajamu M. Johnson

Director,
Supplier Diversity,
Comcast Cable

Ajamu Johnson is
responsible for establishing
corporate goals, policy
and objectives at
Comcast that ensure
maximum utilization
of diverse businesses in
the contracting process. His duties include identifying qualified
suppliers, developing existing suppliers, verifying credentials,
monitoring progress toward annual diversity participation goals
and providing access to Comcast Procurement personnel.

Mr. Johnson has been involved in minority business outreach

and development for nearly ten years. In his previous position
as Business Manager for the Economic Development Projects
Unit at the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition, he
was instrumental in assisting organizations with fulfilling their
economic development plans. He also worked to cultivate and
maintain strategic partnerships with the business community,
community groups, elected officials and city and state
government.

Mr. Johnson, a native New Yorker, is a Drexel University graduate

with a degree in Commerce and Engineering. In 2007, he received
the Bank of America Neighborhood Builder Emerging Leader
Award. Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors of the
Mount Airy Revitalization Corporation in Philadelphia and
on advisory boards for the National Veteran Owned Business
Association and the Philadelphia Urban League Entrepreneur-
ship Center.

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Tuesday 12:30 PM Access To Capital Luncheon And Keynote Address
Hon. Deborah
Taylor Tate
Former FCC
Commissioner;
Member, MMTC
Board of Directors
Deborah Taylor Tate was
nominated to the U.S.
Federal Communications
Commission by President
George W. Bush on November 9, 2005. She was unanimously
confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 21, 2005 and
served as Commissioner until January 2009. Among her many
responsibilities, Commissioner Tate served as Chair of both the
Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service and the Federal-
State Joint Conference on Advanced Telecommunications
Services. As an FCC Commissioner, Tate was often referred to as
“the Children’s Commissioner” because she was a leading voice on
issues affecting families and children. She also worked to ensure
that advances in communications technologies benefited all
Americans.
Tate is presently Chairman of the Steering Committee for the
International Telcommunications Union’s Child Online Protection
Initiative. She serves on numerous state, regional and national
Boards, including Common Sense Media, Centerstone, Inc. and
MMTC. She is also a Distinguished Adjunct Senior Fellow at the
Free State Foundation.
Prior to the FCC, Tate, an attorney and mediator, served as
Chairman and Director of the Tennessee Regulatory Authority.
She formerly served as legal counsel and senior policy advisor
to two governors: then-Governor (now U.S. Senator) Lamar
Alexander and former Governor and Congressman Don
Sundquist.
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Rev. Reggie Gay
President,
ReggieGay.com
Reggie Gay is one of the
most recognized gospel
disc jockeys in America,
a talented, trendsetting
radio and TV personality
based in Atlanta, GA. His
radio program has been
syndicated in multiple
Southern markets; he also hosts a TV show on A-I-B (Atlanta
Interfaith Broadcasters) Television.
Gay’s career has progressed from one turntable and tape machine
in 1982, to state-of-the-art digital broadcast studios. After working
at KISS 104.1 in Atlanta for many years, his success as the host
of “The Reggie Gay Gospel Show” earned him the positions of
Program Manager for GLORY 1340 and for WYZE-AM.
Mr. Gay is an advisory board member of The Stellar Awards. He is
also a consultant for music groups and radio networks nationwide.
Mr. Gay earned a 1984 bachelor’s degree in Broadcasting (Radio
& Television) from Eastern Kentucky University. He received
his certificate of license and ordination to the ministry from
Holy Temple Deliverance Church and is an Associate Minister at
Second Mount Vernon Baptist Church, both in Atlanta.
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Hon. Robert Raul Alarcon, Jr.

Menendez
President, CEO and
United States Senator Chairman of the Board,
Spanish Broadcasting
Robert Menendez’s System, Inc.
story is a quintessential
American story. He In 1983, Raúl Alarcón,
grew up the son of Jr. joined Spanish
immigrants in a Broadcasting System
tenement building (SBS) Inc., the largest
in Union City, NJ publicly traded, Hispanic-
and has risen to become a member of the Senate leadership. owned media and
entertainment company in the United States, as an Account
A product of New Jersey’s public schools and a graduate of the Executive. In 1999, Mr. Alarcón became Chairman of the Board
state’s universities, Robert Menendez has served as a school of Directors for SBS and is also its Chief Executive Officer and
board member, a mayor and a state legislator. Since 1993, he President. He is responsible for long-range, strategic planning and
has been working in Washington, where he rose to become operational matters. Alarcón is instrumental in the acquisition
the third-highest ranking Democrat in the U.S. House of and related financing of each SBS station.
Representatives. He has taken on a prominent leadership role
in the U.S. Senate since he was sworn in on January 18, 2006, Alarcón has been SBS’ President and a director since October
having been appointed by then-New Jersey Governor 1985 and its Chief Executive Officer since June 1994. He is the
Jon Corzine to fill the remainder of his term. Later that son of the late Pablo Raúl Alarcón, Sr., who founded Spanish
year, Menendez was elected to serve a full six-year term. Broadcasting System and served as Chairman of its Board of
Directors.
He currently serves on the Senate Committees on Finance;
Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Energy and Natural
Resources; and Foreign Relations. Menendez is also the
Chairman of the Banking Subcommittee on Housing,
Transportation and Community Development; and the Foreign
Relations Subcommittee on International Development and
Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs and International
Environmental Protection.

Menendez has helped author and enact legislation to make

credit card contracts fairer and make everyday products safer.
Throughout his career, he has worked to improve schools so
they prepare children for a successful future. He helped pass the
law to make college more affordable for the next generation of
leaders. He has also championed legislation to educate children
about Internet safety.

Senator Menendez received his B.A. from St. Peter’s College

in Jersey City and his law degree from Rutgers University.
He currently lives in Hoboken and has two children.

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David Meier
Managing Director,
Gladstone Management
Mr. Meier joined the
Chicago office of
Gladstone in 2007 as
a Managing Director
focusing on new business
development in the Media
& Communications
industry. Prior to
joining Gladstone, Meier was a Vice President in Wells Fargo
Foothill’s Specialty Finance division. There, he was responsible
for originating and underwriting senior loans in the media and
telecommunications sector. Prior to Wells Fargo, Mr. Meier was
with Westburg Media Capital and a Vice President of FINOVA
Capital Corporation, where his primary responsibility was the
origination of media loans of up to $250 million.
From 1990-1994, Meier served as a Vice President at Heller
Financial, Inc. In its Media Business Division, he had primary
management responsibility for a diversified portfolio of senior
loans.  In addition, he was the leader of the Radio Team, which
was responsible for managing Heller’s radio loan portfolio. Meier
began his banking and lending career at Continental National
Bank in 1986. He served in a variety of roles, including middle-
market corporate lending and loan workouts. Mr. Meier received
a B.S. in Finance from Western Illinois University and earned an
M.S. in Finance from the University of Illinois.
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S. Jenell Trigg
Partner,
Lerman Senter PLLC;
Member, MMTC Board
of Advisors
S. Jenell Trigg was
formerly a top broadcast
television advertising and
marketing executive in the
Chicago and Baltimore
markets. Trigg, who chairs
her firm’s Intellectual Property and New Technology Practice
Group, has served as a subject-matter expert for the FCC’s
Advisory Committee for Diversity for Communications in the
Digital Age. She is accredited as a Certified Information Privacy
Professional and is a recognized authority on small and minority
telecommunications
business issues.
Ms. Trigg was the Assistant Chief Counsel for Telecommuni-
cations for the Office of Advocacy at the U.S. Small Business
Administration. In law school, she worked as a Senior Telecom-
munications Policy Analyst for the FCC and as a law clerk to
two Commissioners and the General Counsel. Trigg was also the
first Executive Director and COO for The Telecom Opportunity
Institute, an award-winning nonprofit organization providing
Internet training and telecommunications career information
for at-risk youth.
Trigg is a graduate of Northwestern University, the Catholic
University of America Columbus School of Law (magna cum
laude), and the law school’s Institute for Communications Law
Studies (with honors). She is a founding member of the MMTC
Policy Committee and has served several terms as a member
of its Board of Directors.
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Stephen G. “Steve”
Davis
Senior Vice President,
Engineering & Capital
Management, Clear
Channel Radio
Mr. Davis is an SBE-
certified Professional
Broadcast Engineer who
has had various roles in
the budgeting, design
and oversight of more than 100 studio-construction projects,
numerous RF projects and Clear Channel’s capital budgeting
process. He also designed Clear Channel’s Disaster Preparedness
Initiative.
Davis serves on the National Association of Broadcaster’s Digital
Radio, FM Transmission and Program Committees. He also
served on the FCC’s Independent Panel Reviewing the Impact
of Hurricane Katrina on Communication Networks. He served
on the Media Security and Reliability Council and is currently
refining standards for radio broadcast data with the National
Radio Systems Committee.
Davis began his career in broadcasting in 1978 as an engineer
at KAMR-TV in Amarillo, TX. In 1982, he signed on as Chief
Engineer at a Tulsa, OK AM/FM radio combo owned by Clear
Channel Broadcasting, which at that time owned only six radio
stations. His first task was to build a new four-tower AM array on
1300 kHz. Clear Channel, which went public in 1984, soon started
adding stations and building/upgrading towers. Davis oversaw the
design and construction of new multi-station towers and studio
sites in many of the Clear Channel markets.
In 1996, after the Telecom Act passed, Clear Channel began to
rapidly acquire stations. Davis was promoted to various corporate
roles, eventually being named to his current position. He and his
wife Melinda are the parents of two daughters.
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Colby May
Founding Principal
and Owner,
Law Offices of
Colby M. May
Colby May focuses
on federal litigation
and regulatory
agency proceedings,
communications and
technology, nonprofit
tax issues, legislative matters and the First Amendment. Major
clients include the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Community
Educational Television and the TCT Network. Mr. May also serves
as the Director and Senior Counsel of the Washington, DC office
of the American Center for Law & Justice.
Mr. May has argued, participated in, or acted as amicus curiae
counsel in many landmark cases. He has also provided testimony
to the U.S. Congress on a variety of matters, including the
Religious Liberty and Protection Act, the Dot Kids Domain Name
Act and the Houses of Worship Political Speech Protection Act.
May serves on the board of directors of several civic and charitable
organizations. He is a director and Secretary of EndPoverty.org, a
public charity fostering microeconomic development in emerging
countries of the world. He also works with Enough is Enough!,
a pro-family organization working to make the Internet safe for
children.
Since 2003, Mr. May, a graduate of the George Mason University
School of Law, has served as an Adjunct Law Professor at the
Regent University School of Law.
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Julia Johnson
President,
NetCommunications, Inc.;
Treasurer, MMTC
Julia Johnson leads
NetCommunications,
Inc., a national regulatory
and public affairs firm
comprised of highly
specialized attorneys
and regulatory analysts.
It focuses primarily on governmental and regulatory practices,
combined with media and public relations.
Ms. Johnson also serves as the Chairwoman for Communica-
tions Policy Development and Outreach for the Florida State
Conference of the NAACP. She is the Treasurer and a Director of
MMTC and serves as Chair of the National Advisory Board to the
National Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women. She
sits on the boards of several large, publicly traded corporations,
including MasTec, Allegheny Energy, Northwestern Energy
Company and American Water.
Johnson was appointed to the Florida Public Service Commission
for two consecutive terms and served as Chairman from
1997-1999. From 2003-2005, she was appointed by then-FCC
Chair Michael Powell as the Chair of the FCC Federal Advisory
Committee on Diversity for Communication in the Digital Age.
Johnson holds a B.S. degree in Business Management and a J.D.
from the University of Florida College of Law.
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York Eggleston
Co-Founder and CEO,
Semantic Labs, LLC
York Eggleston has a
wealth of experience in
management, finance
and problem-solving for
both mature and start-up
businesses. Over the last
15 years, he has used his
unique set of talents in the
development or co-development of several media and technology
businesses, each of which has specialized in motivating customer
decisions and measuring consumer behavior and performance.
 
Mr. Eggleston has founded or co-founded several technology,
technology-enabled or new media ventures. He is an inventor
and patent author in the areas of promotion automation over
networks, interactive promotion branding and point of sale
fulfillment.
 
Eggleston sits on advisory boards of the University of Maryland
Baltimore County’s Alex Brown Center for Entrepreneurship,
Communiversal, Inc. and Sub-Basement Art Studios. He has
been a contributor to both academic and commercial journals
and publications.
 
Mr. Eggleston has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and
an M.B.A. (with distinction) from Harvard Business School, with
an emphasis on Finance and Operations.
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Leo Hindery, Jr.

Managing Partner,
InterMedia Partners, LP;
Member, MMTC
Board of Directors

Leo Hindery, Jr. originally

founded InterMedia
Partners, a series of media
industry private-equity
funds in 1988 and ran
them continuously until
1997. In early 2005, Hindery reconstituted InterMedia Partners–
now fund VII–with partners and
colleagues from the earlier InterMedia funds, along with
other business ventures.

From 2001 until 2004, Mr. Hindery was Chairman and CEO of
The YES Network, which he founded as the television home of the
New York Yankees. He has also been President and CEO of Tele-
Communications, Inc. and Chairman and CEO of GlobalCenter
Inc., a major Internet services company.

Mr. Hindery is Chairman of the Economic Growth/Smart

Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation and
a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves
as a Director of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, the
Media Access Project and Teach for America. Hindery has been
recognized as one of the cable industry’s “25 Most Influential
Executives Over the Past 25 Years.”

Mr. Hindery has an M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate

School of Business, and is an undergraduate of Seattle University.

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Minority Media and Henry M. Rivera Founded in 1986, the Minority Media and
Telecommunications Council Chairperson Telecommunications Council promotes equal
3636 16th Street, N.W. opportunity and civil rights in the mass media
Maurita Coley
Suite B-366 and telecommunications industries.  
Erwin Krasnow
Washington, D.C. 20010 Vice Chairs
Phone: 202-332-0500 As the nation’s leading advocate for minority
Fax: 202-332-0503 Ari Fitzgerald advancement and for closing the digital divide
www.mmtconline.org Secretary in communications, MMTC participates in
Julia Johnson rulemaking proceedings before the Federal
Treasurer Communications Commission and in
communications policy cases in the federal
courts of appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.  
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MMTC represents over 70 national organizations
Maurita Coley Nicolaine Lazarre
Jannette Dates pro bono in selected FCC proceedings.  MMTC
Francisco Montero
Ari Fitzgerald Everett C. Parker also operates the Earle K. Moore, John W. Jones
Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt Henry M. Rivera and Cathy Hughes Legal Fellowship Programs,
Leo Hindery Andrew Schwartzman as well as the nation’s only full–service minority–
Ronald Johnson Deborah Taylor Tate owned media brokerage and a broadcast
Julia Johnson Gloria Tristani ownership training and incubation program,
Erwin Krasnow Nicole Turner-Lee MMTC Broadcasting LLC.
Deborah Lathen

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