Colleen O’Grady Diamond, Program Co-Chair, of SBC Communications, is Supervising Attorney in charge of Industry Markets for SBC’s western region for interconnection agreement negotiations for Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) headquartered in California and Nevada.

Walt Sapronov, Program Co-Chair, 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.

Laura Altschul is the Director National Siting Policy at T-Mobile USA. She began the telecommunications portion of her career in 1993, when she worked for GTE Mobilenet and a telecommunications consulting firm.

Robert J. Butler is a partner in the Communications and Privacy Practices of Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP and Co-Chair of the firm’s Internet practice. He focuses his practice on telecommunications regulation with a special emphasis on regulatory and legislative issues involving interconnection, information services and new technologies.

Jonathan E. Canis a partner with Kelley, Drye & Warren, LLP, focuses his practice on telecommunications, representing new competitive entrants in federal and state venues by analyzing clients’ business plans and advising them of business opportunities; undertaking litigation; and negotiating service and joint provisioning contracts with carriers and customers.

Michelle Carey is Chief of the FCC Wireline Competition Bureau’s Competition Policy Division. As such, she is responsible for overseeing various rulemakings, including the IP-Enabled Services NPRM, Triennial Review, and Broadband proceedings. She is also responsible for supervising various adjudicatory proceedings such as license transfer applications filed by common carriers.

John Devaney, a partner with Perkins Coie, LLP focuses his litigation practice on Commercial, Telecommunications, Employment counseling and Environmental insurance coverage.

Brian T. FitzGerald is a partner in the law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P. He specializes in telecommunications and utility law and has been actively involved in negotiating and drafting interconnection contracts, court challenges to state and federal administrative agency actions and providing general legal counsel to telecom, cable and utility clients.

Grant Guera is General Counsel for Pacific Gas & Electric where he is primarily responsible for municipal law in PG&E contract negotiations. Before joining, PG&E, Grant practiced with McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen in Walnut Creek, California.

Gerry Lederer is Of Counsel to the Law Firm of Miller & Van Eaton P.L.L.C. Previously he has served as Executive Director of the Advocacy and Research Advancement Departments of BOMA International; General Counsel of the United States Conference of Mayors and Government Relations Executive Director of the United States Telephone Association.

Loretta M. Lynch served as President of the California Public Utilities Commission from March 2000 to December 31, 2002. She is currently one of five Commissioners charged with regulating telecommunications, energy, commercial transportation, and water companies.

Caroline N. Mitchell, a partner with Jones Day, specializes in antitrust litigation, complex litigation, and regulatory proceedings before the California Public Utilities commission. Her work on complex antitrust cases focuses on the oil and telecommunications industries.

Jonathan Jacob Nadler is a partner in the Washington DC office of Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP, where he has worked extensively on issues regarding local telecommunications competition, international telecommunication liberalization, broadband deployment, and the growth of the Internet.

Carl W. Peede, President and CEO of Tri-State Broadband, Inc. has held executive level positions in several publicly traded companies including TeraGlobal Communications, Inc., San Diego, CA, HomeCom Communications, Inc., Atlanta, GA, and NetManage, Inc., Cupertino, CA.

William G. Roche is a member of King & Spalding LLP’s Technology and Intellectual Property Practice Groups in Atlanta. He has represented clients in connection with a variety of transactions involving intellectual property and technologybased assets and services, including IT outsourcing transactions.

Harvey I. Saferstein is Of Counsel in the Litigation Section of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo P.C. His practice specializes in antitrust and trade regulation counseling, intellectual property counseling and litigation, and complex commercial and business litigation.

Luke Schaeffer, of FTI Consulting, specializes in advising companies in the telecommunications and technology industries. His work covers corporate finance, due diligence, M&A advisory, private equity finance, strategy and business plan development, business recovery and restructuring, and valuation.

Suzanne Toller is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP where she heads up the San Francisco office’s Telecommunications Department. Prior to joining Davis Wright Tremaine, she was Vice President, Legal and External Affairs for AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. and served as a Legal Advisor to Commissioner Rachelle B. Chong at the FCC.

Chad S. Wachter is Vice President and General Counsel for Knology, Inc. providing advanced broadband services to both business and residential customers.

William B. Wilhelm, Jr. is in the Technology & Telecommunications Group at Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, LLP, where he represents VoIP providers, CLECs, domestic and international technology companies, broadband providers, equipment manufacturers, domestic and international ISPs and a variety of communications software developers.

Jack Zinman is an attorney in SBC Communication’s federal regulatory group based in Washington, D.C., responsible for a variety of communications issues, with a focus on Internet Protocol (IP) services and broadband technology. Before joining SBC, Mr. Zinman served as Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).