2007 Telecommunications Symposium
Voice, Video and Broadband: The Changing Competitive Landscape and Its Impact on Consumers
November 29, 2007

Panel Speakers

Participation as a speaker in this symposium was by invitation of the Department of Justice only. This page lists the persons who participated as panel speakers in the symposium, with links to biographies.

Panel I: Entry into Multichannel Video Services

• John Goodman, Executive Director, Broadband Service Providers Association
• Jane Lawton, Administrator of the Office of Cable and Communications Services, Montgomery County, Maryland
• Grier Raclin, General Counsel, Charter Communications, Inc.
• Hal J. Singer, President, Criterion Economics
• John Thorne, Deputy General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Verizon Communications Inc.

Panel II: Entry into Telecommunications Services

• Jill Canfield, Senior Regulatory Counsel, National Telecommunications Cooperative Association
• Sean C. Lindsay, Associate General Counsel, Qwest Communications International Inc.
• Stephen T. Perkins, General Counsel, Cavalier Telephone LLC
• Simon J. Wilkie, Executive Director, Center for Communication Law and Policy, USC Gould School of Law
• Alexandra Wilson, Vice President of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs, Cox Enterprises, Inc.

Panel III: Wireless Broadband Technologies as Alternatives to Reach the Consumer

• Thomas W. Hazlett, Professor of Law and Economics, George Mason University School of Law
• Hank Kafka, Vice President, Architecture, AT&T Inc.
• R. Gerard Salemme, Executive Vice President of Strategy, Policy and External Affairs, Clearwire Corporation
• Bin Shen, Vice President, Broadband Product Management and Partnership Development, Sprint Nextel Corporation
• William F. Wallace, Chairman, Digital Bridge Communications Corp.

Panel IV: Other Alternative Broadband Technologies Including Satellite and Broadband over Power Line

• David Brown, Vice President and General Counsel, WildBlue Communications Inc.
• J. Brendan Herron, Jr., Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy, CURRENT Group, LLC
• Evan R. Grayer, Vice President Broadband, DirecTV Group, Inc.
• Blair Levin, Managing Director, Stifel Nicolaus

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