Norman B. “Chip” Gerry, Program Co-Chair, is a partner at Gerry & Sapronov LLP where his practice includes telecommunications law, construction law, commercial real estate transactions, including development, finance and leasing, and estate planning.

Glen P. Smith, Program Co-Chair, is Vice President and Director of Legal Affairs for Post Properties, Inc., where he also serves on the company’s Management Committee. He provides legal and business advice to all levels of this publicly-traded, national umbrella partnership REIT that develops, constructs, and manages upscale multihousing and mixed use projects with a nine state, seventy-four property portfolio. His current practice includes real property management, transactional, employment, policy, intellectual property, marketing, litigation, regulatory, environmental, construction, and corporate governance issues.

Danny E. Adams, managing partner in Kelley Drye & Warren’s Tysons Corner office, focuses his practice on telecommunications representing long distance companies, wireless carriers, billing clearinghouses, Internet service providers, information service companies and local service providers on both federal and state matters, as well as in contract negotiations and related matters.

Matthew C. Ames, a partner with Miller & Van Eaton, PLLC, specializes in cable television issues and new communications technologies affecting local governments, and in the drafting and negotiating of franchise agreements and cable television ordinances.

Michael Bowling serves as Vice President of Broadband Marketing for BellSouth Customer Markets. He is responsible for the strategic direction and product management of BellSouth’s consumer and business narrowband and DSL Internet products and services.

David E. Bronston is a partner with Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen LLP in New York. He was formerly General Counsel to the New York Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications where he was responsible for the city’s broadband telecommunications and cable television franchises.

John F. Clark is Of Counsel with Perkins Coie, where he advises clients on Telecommunications, environmental and historic preservation law, general regulatory litigation, white collar criminal defense and land use law. Previously, he served with the FCC as Senior Attorney for the Environmental Compliance Group and the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau.

William “Bill” E. Cook, Jr. is a partner at Arnold & Porter where he concentrates on cable television and telecommunications regulatory matters. He represents clients before Congress, the FCC and federal courts. He has counseled clients on federal telecommunications policy and legislation, and advised them on compliance with

Deborah C. Costlow is a founding partner of Costlow & Hubacher, a Washington, D.C. telecommunications law firm focused on real estate technology issues. Ms. Costlow assists owners of commercial and residential high-density properties, REITs, and single family developers with strategic business planning; portfolio analyses; contract negotiation and drafting for the provision of video, internet and telephone services; antenna site agreements; dispute resolution regarding video and telephony services termination; the sale and acquisition of telecommunications systems, and FCC policies and regulations affecting the multihousing industry.

Eric Fishman, a partner with Holland & Knight, LLP practices telecommunications and general business law. His concentrations within the field of telecommunications are in wireless telecommunications, local exchange telephony, domestic and international long distance service, Internet telephony and high technology. His clients are engaged internationally and domestically in every major sector of the telecommunications industry.

Anne F. Gerry is a partner with Arnall Golden & Gregory LLP in their Corporate Practice Group, and a member of the firm’s Telecommunications and Mergers & Acquisitions/Strategic Alliances team. She counsels clients in corporate and commercial transactions. She also has experience representing clients before the FCC and state public service commissions, and has represented regulated telecommunications carriers in numerous business transactions.

C. Douglas Jarrett, a partner at Keller and Heckman LLP, is expert on the domestic regulation of broadband offerings and the related legal and business issues in deploying infrastructure to provide broadband services.

Jeff Levy is the Chairman and CEO of Biltmore Communications, Inc. (BCI) which provides more than 60 residential and commercial properties throughout metro Atlanta. In 2001, with Open Point Networks he helped design a revolutionary system to integrate public and private wireless networks on the same provisioning platform for a citywide high-speed wireless data network.

Andrew D. Lipman is a partner at Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman LLP where he is the Vice-Chairman of the firm and head of its Telecommunications Group. He also served as the Senior Vice President of Legal and Regulatory Affairs for MFS Communications, the nation’s largest competitive local services provider.

Mark Maloney is a partner with King & Spalding and a member of its Financial Restructuring Practice Group. His practice includes representation of a broad range of clients in litigation involving creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, lender liability and other financial and commercial disputes. He appears regularly in Georgia state and federal courts and also is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Joseph P. Markoski leads telecommunications and technology activities for Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP, specializing in telecommunications law and policy. He has undertaken the privatization of state-owned telecommunications enterprises and the restructuring of the telecommunications regulatory regimes of more than a dozen countries worldwide. His practice includes the representation of global and national telecommunications operators seeking to expand their international operations, negotiate interconnection agreements, and establish satellite and terrestrial fixed and mobile networks.

Carl W. Peede, President and CEO of Tri- State Broadband Inc., has held executive level positions in several publicly traded companies including Senior Vice President of Marketing for TeraGlobal Communications, Inc., COO for HomeCom Communications, Inc. and Senior Vice President Worldwide Marketing for NetManage, Inc.

Walt Sapronov is a partner at Gerry & Sapronov LLP. Mr. Sapronov concentrates his practice on telecommunications law and regulation and transactions involving regulated communications carriers. He represents numerous clients before the Georgia Public Service Commission, the FCC, and the Georgia State Legislature.

Christopher W. Savage is a partner at Cole, Raywid & Braverman, LLP and head of the firm’s telecom/Internet practice. He is one of the nation’s leading practitioners on the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He successfully negotiated the nation’s first interconnection agreement between a cable operator and an RBOC.

Robert Tanner is Legal Counsel to the Bureau Chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission. As Legal Counsel he advises the Bureau Chief on competition, broadband deployment and advanced services matters. Prior to his current position, he served as an Attorney-Advisor in the Competition Policy Division of the Wireline Competition Bureau where he was a team leader for the Triennial Review Order and the Verizon Pennsylvania Section 271 Order.

Linda Trickey is Corporate Counsel for Cox Communications, supporting data operations and MDU/commercial access. Prior to joining Cox, she worked in private practice focused on commercial litigation.

Robert P. Williams II is a partner with Troutman Sanders LLP, where he chairs the firm’s Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce Practice Group. Mr. Williams represents carriers, utilities and building owners in communications infrastructure transactions, litigation and regulatory matters.