Jim Baller is a Senior Principal of the Baller Herbst Law Group, a national law firm based in Washington, DC, and Minneapolis, MN. The Firm specializes in representing local governments and public power utilities in matters involving telecommunications, cable television, high-speed data communications, Internet access, wireless communications, right-of-way management, pole and conduit attachments, barriers to the public-sector entry into communications, and bankruptcy. His clients include the American Public Power Association (APPA), the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA), regional and state utility associations and municipal leagues, and numerous individual local governments and public power utilities in more than 35 states. NATOA named him its Member of the Year for 2001; the Fiber to the Home Council recently recognized him as "the nation's most experienced and knowledgeable attorney on public broadband matters;" and Muniwireless has called him "the foremost legal expert on U.S. public broadband matters."

Working regularly with multi-disciplinary teams of legal, financial, accounting, engineering and other technical experts, Mr. Baller also assists government entities in making comprehensive telecommunications plans, developing state-of-the-art telecommunications systems, searching for strategic partners, and integrating right-of-way and zoning ordinances, franchises, licenses, pole-attachment agreements, contracts, forms, permits and other related documents.

As a litigator, Mr. Baller has had first-chair responsibility in numerous cases involving complex factual, legal and policy issues, multiple parties, and large amounts in controversy. These include successful challenges to Virginia's and Missouri's barriers to municipal entry into the telecommunications field and an important victory in a case involving the meaning of "level playing field" in the context of cable franchising. The Missouri decision was recently reversed by the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Baller is a frequent speaker and author on communications matters. Five extensive interviews are available online at:

* Etopia News Network (8-19-05)
* Broadband Reports (5-21-05)
* CNet News (4-15-04)
* Broadband Reports (7-28-04)
* Etopia News Network (1-6-05)

Other representative works include Deceptive Myths About Municipal Broadband: Disinformation About Public Ownership Impeding Progress (Broadband Properties Magazine May 2005); Keynote Address to the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference (October 2004); Federal Privacy Guidebook (APPA 2005) (co-author); Community Broadband Guidebook (APPA 2003) (co-author); Curbing Anticompetitive Practices By Cable Incumbents: If Not Now, When?" NATOA J. of Mun. Telecom. Policy (Winter 2003-04) (co-author); Annual Update of Legal Issues Affecting Municipal Broadband Projects" (APPA 2004); "Municipal Broadband: The Struggle For Local Choice Continues (VACO 2003); and Pole Attachment Guidebook (APPA 2002) (co-author).

Mr. Baller is a graduate of Dartmouth College ('69) and Cornell Law School ('72). He is a member of the Bars of the Supreme Court of the United States; the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal for the Federal, District of Columbia, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Circuits; and the courts of the District of Columbia. He holds Martindale-Hubbell's highest AV rating; is a member of the Board of Directors of FirstMile; and is recognized in Who's Who in America.

I joined EarthLink in 1995 and served as vice president of engineering for three years, then as CTO. Now, as the company's Distinguished Research Engineer, I pursue various research initiatives and provide strategic advisory to executive management. Prior to joining EarthLink, I founded Beckemeyer Development (BDT.COM) in 1985. BDT.COM provided general Internet consulting and design engineering services, including Intranet design and implementation, security consulting, firewalls, intruder detection and response, and Internet integration. BDT.COM had a world-wide customer base consisting of corporations, unversities, and government agencies. Out of demand from customers, in 1994, I added regional Internet access to the company's services. I met Sky Dayton in 1994 and helped him determine the technology requirements for his ISP venture. In July 1994, BDT.COM delivered, installed and configured the router, Sun servers, and 10 modems which started EarthLink Network. The company provisioned their first account that day. In 1995 EarthLink acquired Beckemeyer Development and hired me as vice president of engineering. Prior to founding BDT.COM, I was a senior software engineer at Integrated Automation, Inc. and before that, I was a software engineer at Nicolet Zeta Corporation (formerly Zeta). David has a SIP Wiki and a blog.

Background: April 2003 - Present: TW Alliance and Technology Strategy 2001 - April 2003: AOL, Technology Strategy, Business Strategy, policy and trial witness 1998 - 2001: AOL, New Product Development 1997 - 1998: AOL, Product lead for Digital Cities

1994 - 1997: CEO, Founder WP Studio/Total NY

1992 - 1994: Completed graduate studies

1987 - 1992: Oliver, Wyman and Company, management consultancy 1984 - 1987: Completed under-graduate studies

Education:

MBA Wharton, 1994

BA Wesleyan University, 1987

In addition to my research, i try to keep one foot in the world of change and activism. Since 1998, most of my involvement has been with V-Day, working to end violence against women and girls worldwide. Until 2003, i was the Digital Director where i was fortunate enough to build online environments for vagina activists to communicate, share and acquire support.

Additionally, many people on the web know me because of my deep appreciation for the words of Ani Difranco and her power to make us all reflect on our identity and impact on this world. Soul exploration is a key part of who i am. Thus, while folks music always soothes my heart, psytrance / goa soothes my soul, forcing me to explore things beyond my realm of imagination, question reality and appreciate the power of movement. I go through phases where i babble out thoughts for the world to see (blog, rants), but then i get all introspective and refuse to share. My digital ramblings are because i love provoking people to provide me their thoughts (although my response is heavily dependent on how much i can stand email at any given point).

I am a big believer in cooperative living and spent my undergraduate years in coops. Spirituality and altered states are crucial to my existence and i encourage others to look inwards to find their place in this world.

Basically, i am just another crazy, overachieving, passionate, activist girl.

Scott Bradner has been involved in the design, operation and use of data networks at Harvard University since the early days of the ARPANET. He was involved in the design of the original Harvard data networks, the Longwood Medical Area network (LMAnet) and New England Academic and Research Network (NEARnet). He was founding chair of the technical committees of LMAnet, NEARnet and the COrporation for Research and Enterprise Network (CoREN).

Mr. Bradner served in a number of roles in the IETF.  He was the co-director of the Operational Requirements Area (1993-1997), IPng Area (1993-1996), Transport Area (1997-2003) and Sub-IP Area (2001-2003). He was a member of the IESG (1993-2003) and was an elected trustee of the Internet Society (1993-1999), where he currently serves as the Secretary to the Board of Trustees.  Scott is also a trustee of the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN).

Mr. Bradner is the University Technology Security Officer in the Harvard University Office of the Provost.  He tries to help the University community deal with technology-related privacy and security issues. He also provides technical advice and guidance on issues relating to the Harvard data networks and new technologies to Harvard's CIO. He founded the Harvard Network Device Test Lab, is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, a weekly columnist for Network World, and does a bit of independent consulting on the side.

Mr. Coburn is a managing director and global technology strategist in the technology group of UBS Investment Research. Mr. Coburn is responsible for integrating the research efforts of 120 technology and telecom analysts worldwide. In 2001, UBS's global tech team ranked number two in the technology category in the Institutional Investor European Survey. Featured in both Fast Company and Barrons, Mr. Coburn was also a regular contributor to The Red Herring for three years. Prior to joining UBS, Mr. Coburn served as a portfolio manager and technology analyst at Lynch & Mayer Inc., based in New York. Mr. Coburn holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

The future of the planet

Peter founded a new style laboratory in Silicon Valley with a group from the Apple Advanced Technology Group in 1998 as part of his personal program of diversification into new technology and business, which started in 1996. He is currently involved as a new business mentor, advisor, consultant and business angel with a wide range of companies across the planet.

From 1998 to 2000 Peter was Chief Technologist for British Telecom, and prior to this he was Head of Research with 1000 people dedicated to charting the future of technology and society. Peter's career with BT spanned 38 years from lineman to researcher and finally as a primary agent of change. He has also been a consultant to numerous international companies and organizations with his personal contributions spanning circuit, system and network design; software production, machine programming, switching and transmission; human interfaces; working environments; telemedicine, bit warfare, artificial intelligence; adaptive systems and control; management system design; and work methods. He has held numerous academic posts including the Collier Chair for the Public Understanding of Science & Technology from 1998 - 2000, visiting professor at University College London and Essex and Kent Universities, he is also an international writer and broadcaster.

Susan’s practice was focused on Internet law and policy issues, including governance, privacy, intellectual property, advertising, and defamation. She represented major online companies, startups, and joint ventures, and worked particularly closely with companies doing business in the domain name world. From 1996-1998, she taught copyright as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown Law Center, and she has spoken and written frequently about online legal issues.

Susan writes about digital copyright issues and internet governance. Her article, "The Biology of the Broadcast Flag" was published in the Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal in late 2003. Upcoming pieces will be about online identity ("Who's In Charge of Who I Am," to be published in an NYU Press book), FCC jurisdiction ("Nice Work If You Can Get It: The FCC In The Digital Age," to be published in law review form), and other digital policy issues. She has also published many online essays about ICANN (most co-authored with David R. Johnson), and maintains a website and blog at www.scrawford.net.

Susan is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Innovation Network (www.innonet.org), a member of the Board of Directors of Greenwood Music Camp, and a member of the advisory boards of SquareTrade, Renovation in Music Education, Voxiva, and other groups. Susan, a violist, lives in New York City.

Previously, Ms. de Lorenzi led the creation of the North Texas Technology Council (NTTC), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting North Texas as a premier technology region. She served as Chief Executive Officer and continues to serve as a Director for this successful organization.

Ms. de Lorenzi's leadership experience includes serving as the Southwest Regional Director of the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan, grassroots educational organization advocating fiscal responsibility and reform of entitlement programs to ensure the

viability and fairness for all generations.

Prior to joining the Concord Coalition, she served as a National Director for Economic Security 2000, a Washington based education and policy organization addressing issues related to Social Security reform.

She serves on the Board of Directors for the Telework Coalition and in 2003 was awarded the first Bob de Lorenzi Memorial Telework Award. She served on the 2004 Washington Area Council of Telework (WACOT) planning committee. Finding new and innovative uses of technology for increasing efficiencies in the workplace and addressing transportation issues in a highly congested metropolitan region such as Washington, D.C. is a particular focus of interest for both PatriotNet and Ms. de Lorenzi.

She serves on the Board of Directors of Community Business Partnership (CBP), the Capitol Telecommunications Professionals (CTPVA), the Central Fairfax Chamber of Commerce (CFCC) and the Telework Coalition. She was appointed to serve on the 2004 Virginia Joint Commission on Technology and Science's (JCOTS) Advisory Committee on Computer Crimes.

She is co-founder of the Washington Bureau for ISP Advocacy (WBIA) and the Gigabyte March as well as Success in the City, a unique networking organization for executive business women.

Ms. de Lorenzi is a frequent guest speaker, panelist and media guest on issues related to public policy, workforce and technology and women's issues.

Tom Evslin was cofounder (with wife Mary), Chairman and CEO of ITXC Corp. The NASDAQ-listed company grew from startup in 1997 to the world’s leading provider of wholesale VoIP and one of largest carriers of international voice minutes of any kind by 2004 when it was acquired by Teleglobe.

Evslin conceived, launched, and ran AT&T’s first ISP, AT&T WorldNet Service. WorldNet popularized all-you-can-eat flatrate monthly pricing for Internet access and forced the rest of the industry, including AOL and MSN, to follow suit. Evslin has been blamed and praised for this ever since. He is unrepentant.

At Microsoft, Evslin was responsible for the server products now in Microsoft BackOffice including Microsoft Exchange and for Exchange’s predecessor Microsoft Mail. Evslin was the General Manager for Connectivity Products (email) at Microsoft responsible for overcoming the lead Lotus then had with cc:mail and Lotus Notes.

Evslin came to Microsoft when key assets of Solutions, Inc. (a software company he founded and he and Mary ran) were sold to Microsoft. In the 1970s Solutions developed the first commercial EFT software for banks. In the 1980s Solutions was the first developer of commercial communications software for the Macintosh. Award-winning products from Solutions included Desktop Express published by Dow Jones Software, Glue (a predecessor of Adobe Acrobat), SmartScrap & The Clipper, and backFax.

Evslin is an inventor on five granted US patents.

He now splits his time between Evslin Consulting and charitable boards. His historical murder mystery set in the Internet bubble will be published later this year.

Prior to Sprint he lived and breathed the stupid network as an IT consultant at Oracle. Lingering on the resume are also various half-forgotten skills at programming and building big hairy IT systems for banks. Martin is also in possession of a certificate implausibly claiming he holds a degree in Mathematics and Computation from Oxford University.

Outside of work, he travels, hikes, cleans up after babies, and dreams up patentable ideas in the shower.
Martin is currently a refugee fleeing the benighted shores of telcoland, and is wondering what to do next.

Hayashi holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont College, and a master's degree in business administration from Ohio State University.

Hayaski has recently been elected to the Board of Directors of Mindspeed Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications.

Before becoming CTO, Mr. LaJoie served as Executive Vice President of Advanced Technology and Vice President of Corporate Development, overseeing the deployment of Video on Demand systems launches other new services and products. LaJoie has been involved in many development projects over his years with Time Warner Cable, including Multi Media, Full Service Network, Road Runner, Pegasus and Telephony. Prior to joining Time Warner Cable, Mr. LaJoie was engaged in software development and network systems design. In addition, he was also a NASDAQ Broker/Dealer.

Andrew is Senior Policy Counsel for Google Inc., based in New York City. He is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where his work has focused on the law and regulation of Internet and telecommunications networks. In recent years, he has focused primarily on developing countries, including Ghana, Mongolia, Kenya, Afghanistan, and South Africa. Since joining Google, Andrew has continued that work as a member of the Board of Directors of Bridges.org, an international non-profit organisation based in Cape Town that promotes the effective use of information and communications technology in the developing world to reduce poverty and improve citizens' lives.

Andrew first joined the Berkman Center in 1998 as an Associate Director and Fellow, studying the Internet's technical administration and self-regulation and on the application of constitutional law doctrines to cyberspace. He worked on online mechanisms to facilitate democratic consultation in cyberspace using the model of Deliberative Polling. In 1999, Andrew taught The Law of Cyberspace with Prof. Jonathan Zittrain. He returned to the Berkman Center in 2002, to lead the Berkman Center's initiatives in developing countries. In 2003, he taught Digital Democracy with Prof. Charles Nesson.

From 1999-2002, Andrew helped to launch and manage the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), serving as Vice President, Chief Policy Officer, and Chief Financial Officer. ICANN is the global non-profit organization responsible for coordinating the Internet's systems of unique identifiers, such as domain names and IP addresses.

In 2000, Time named Andrew one of its Digital Dozen. In 2001, he was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

After graduating from the Harvard Law School in 1994, McLaughlin clerked for Judge Gerald W. Heaney of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. From 1995-97, he worked as an associate at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C., where he was a member of the team that successfully litigated the challenge to the Communications Decency Act, culminating in the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Reno v. ACLU, 117 S.Ct. 2329 (1997). From 1997-98, he served as Counsel to Congressman Henry Waxman of Los Angeles, the ranking Democrat on the House of Representatives’ campaign finance investigation.

A native of Minnesota and North Dakota, McLaughlin graduated from Yale University in 1991 with a B.A. in history. As a law student, he was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.

Jerry Michalski (ma-call-ski) is the founder and president of Sociate, a technology consulting firm. Through Sociate, Jerry offers advice, speaks, writes and invests, taking a more hands-on role in developing the products and services he has written about for a dozen years. His interests lie mainly in the many ways that technology and people interact -- in private and business settings, and at all scales: as individuals, businesses, economies and societies.

Jerry is working on his first book, which offers (among other things) a humanist answer to the dysfunctions of consumer capitalism, innovative approaches to improve the world's culture and help creators make a better living, and ways for corporations to make transparency and openness profit drivers, not just ethical guidelines. 

For the five years before he founded Sociate, Jerry was the Managing Editor of Release 1.0 , Esther Dyson's monthly newsletter, and co-host of the annual PC Forum.  For the five years before that, Jerry was an industry analyst and research service director with New Science Associates, which was later bought by Gartner Group.  Jerry earned an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA in Economics from UC Irvine.  He was raised in Peru and Argentina and speaks fluent Spanish, German and French.

As policy advisor at Afilias, she has been instrumental in the redelegation of .ORG, the growth of .INFO, and the expansion of Afilias’s support of the ccTLD community as well as several ccTLD domains. She represents the .GI domain in European Internet organisations such as CENTR and RIPE. Her current projects include promoting its Internationalized Domain Name initiatives and evaluating ENUM. She represents Afilias at many conferences including Apricot, ICANN, IETF, INET, Internet Week Japan, O’Reilly Emerging Technology.

Before joining Afilias in 2000, Ms Miloshevic worked as a consultant specialising in top-level domains, including advising on .MUSEUM and .PRO.

Her Internet involvement dates back to 1993 when she joined Demon, the United Kingdom’s first public Internet Service Provider, where she worked on developing leased line and domain name services, including contributing to the informal ‘council of hostmasters’ policy making process which moderated .UK prior to Nominet’s creation in 1996.

In the past 11 years, she has participated in the work of many Internet councils, workshops and constituencies in the area of Internet governance and DNS as well as contributed lectures to workshops in Eastern Europe, such as CEENET, the network of Eastern European Networking Association and the South East European CyberSecurity Cooperation Forum, and a number of forums of the Stability Pact for South East Europe, held in Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia, etc.

Ms Miloshevic participates as guest-speaker at conferences and business meetings; as such she has visited more than 30 countries on five continents in the past two years, and has developed extensive links with industry, regulators, government, academics, as well as movements such as the Free Software Foundation, Creative Commons, and other organizations and representatives of the free and open source community. With respect to the latter relationships, Ms Miloshevic is working on exploring new models of intellectual property and business where proprietary and open source methodologies can be complimentary rather than confrontational for the ultimate benefit of Internet community.

She is a long-standing member of ISOC and regularly attends INET meetings. Her recent projects have included raising funds and support for the 30th Anniversary of the International Arpanet.

Ms Miloshevic was born in Belgrade to Serbian and Croatian parents and has lived in London since 1991. She is a graduate of the faculty of Foreign Languages of the University of Belgrade, where she studied English Literature. Before beginning her Internet career, she worked as an interpreter and as a music review writer in Chicago.

During his tenure, Tucows has grown to become a leading destination for Internet software and application downloads. In 2000, the company created the wholesale domain name registration market with the launch of the OpenSRS (shared registration services) platform. In August 2001, he helped orchestrate Tucows' merger with Infonautics, Inc., under the Tucows name. Since then, Mr. Noss has rapidly expanded Tucows wholesale services to offer digital certificates, DNS, and email services to a growing international Reseller channel.

He champions areas of vital interest to the Internet community including; privacy, ICANN reform and registrar matters, the implications of emerging technologies, and the emergence of small and medium-sized ISPs and web hosting companies as the unrecognized backbone of the Internet economy.

Mr. Noss chairs the University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science Advisory Board and is a distinguished graduate of the University of Toronto where he earned a BA. He also earned an MBA and LLB from the University of Western Ontario.

Jorge Ortiz is an entrepreneur involved in several startups:

RadioBus, MP3 based mass media for public transportation buses.

Vozlibre.org, (in planning) Web based citizen media

Frank Paynter is the Founder and President of Sandhill Technologies, LLC, a small consulting firm. Since opening for business in 1997, Sandhill has offered Frank as a consultant and project manager to a limited number of clients, including university, government, telco, non-profit, and financial institution executive management. Frank's focus is on appraisal of large organizations' current conditions and planning and executing change in their internal networked communications and information technology services.

Frank is working on his first book, a compilation of interviews with bloggers that he has posted on his own weblog over the last three years. It's more a social and literary effort than a technical one and reflects his interest in people, writing, and the decades long growth of the use of computing technology in personal relationships.

Frank's BA (English and Economics) and MBA are from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His time-on-planet is a large enough number that the length of his bio could get really ridiculous.

Mark Peshoff is Senior Director of Executive Thought Leadership, Cisco Systems. In this position, he manages a team which support’s Cisco’s need to be positioned and recognized as the preeminent thought leader regarding the role and relevance of networking in solving Cisco’s customer’s most important business problems.

Mr. Peshoff has a proven track record of building successful teams in diverse and challenging markets. He joined Cisco in 1996, previously serving as Director of Service Provider Marketing for Cisco Systems. In this position, he led several teams within Cisco, including the Solutions Management & Marketing, Segment Marketing, Strategic Marketing and Press Relations/Analyst Relations teams. These groups advocate, support and enhance value for the company’s Service Provider products and services. He also was Director of Marketing for Cisco’s Integrated Access Business Unit and Director of International Marketing for the company’s Optical Transport Business Unit. With more than 23 years in the industry, Mr. Peshoff’s experience includes sales management, consulting, product marketing, field marketing, product management and acquisitions assessment and integration. Prior to Cisco, he spent 14 years with Hewlett-Packard, building the company’s first Network Consulting Organization. Within both Cisco and Hewlett-Packard, he has held key sales management and marketing positions in Europe and Asia Pacific. Mr. Peshoff is a recognized speaker internationally. He is one of Cisco’s top speakers, frequently delivering addresses at conferences throughout the world.

Richard Prytula is President and Founder of TechnoCap Inc since 1993. TechnoCap Inc. is a Canadian venture capital company based in Montreal with over $200 million of committed capital. TechnoCap's investors include Bombardier Trust Canada, The Boeing Company, Bombardier Trust United Kingdom, Desjardins Pension Fund, the Solidarity Fund QFL Quebec, CDP Capital, the National Bank of Canada and TechnoAnge Inc.

TechnoCap invests in technology companies and is in the business of building technology companies. Mr. Prytula is a member of the Board of Directors of various technology companies. Prior to TechnoCap, Mr. Prytula was chairman, president & CEO of the LNS Group, a defence, aerospace and manufacturing group. Mr. Prytula holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and an M.B.A. from the University of Western Ontario.

Dr. Reed is, by inclination, a designer of large-scale systems structures and concepts - algorithms, protocols, architectures, business models, and processes. His career includes 15 years as a student and professor of computer science and engineering at MIT, 10 years leading advanced commercial personal computer software innovation as v.p. R&D/chief scientist at Software Arts and Lotus Development Corp., 4 years as a senior scientist at Interval Research Corp., and 4 years as an independent technology strategy advisor and consultant to industry in areas related to computing and communications infrastructure and applications. He is known for key early contributions to the architecture of the Internet in the '70's. He has made major contributions to the design, implementation, and technology strategy of a variety of very successful commercial software and systems products.

Porter is the editor of Porter Stanberry's Investment Advisory, a monthly financial newsletter newsletter, and the founder of Pirate Investor, an independent financial publishing company.

Dr. Tongia is a Research Engineer in the Engineering and Public Policy department of Carnegie Mellon University.  He is interested in issues of infrastructure in emerging economies, especially the role of technology choices for improving deployment and penetration.  Using quantitative policy and decision analysis, he has focused on the energy and telecom domains.  In addition to engineering-economic analyses, his work also deals with broader policy issues such as security, international collaboration (especially US-India), and technology and analysis transfer.

Much of this is driven by the question as to whether developing countries can (or should) follow in the same steps as developed countries.  Part of his research involves developing models for identifying current technology and policy environments, and examining the role of public and private intervention.  A portion of his work involves collaboration with the School of Computer Science, looking at technology options for leap-frogging in telecom infrastructure

Dr. Weinberger began his "career" in the late '70s teaching philosophy at New Jersey's Stockton State College for five years. (He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto.) During this time he maintained his steady freelance writing of humor, reviews and intellectual and academic articles, publishing in places as diverse as The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Smithsonian, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and TV Guide.

In 1985, after being denied tenure because the tenure quota was filled, and after an enthusiastic but well-mannered student demonstration in his support, he became a junior marketing guy at Interleaf, an innovative start-up with new ideas on how to create and structure documents. At Interleaf he helped launch the industry�s first document management system and its first electronic document publishing system, years ahead of the Web. He left Interleaf after 8 years, as VP of Strategic Marketing.

He founded the one-person strategic marketing company, Evident Marketing, in 1994 and within two years counted among his clients a wide variety of companies, including RR Donnelley, Intuit, Sun Microsystems, Esther Dyson's Release 1.0 and CSC Index.

In late 1995, he joined Open Text as VP of Strategic Marketing because he saw an opportunity to help shape the way intranets are used. As part of the senior management team, Dr. Weinberger helped Open Text move from one of the first Web search engine companies (the engine behind Yahoo!) to market- and thought-leadership in Web-based collaborative software.

After helping to take Open Text public in 1996, Dr. Weinberger returned to consulting, writing and speaking, helping to found a couple of dot-coms, and serving on industry and company boards. In 2000, Perseus published The Cluetrain Manifesto, of which is is a co-author. It became a national best-seller.

Mr. Whitt is Senior Director for Global Policy and Planning at MCI, Inc., where he has spent the past ten years formulating and advocating the Company’s public policy positions regarding federal communications regulation and Internet law.  In an earlier life in private practice he represented nascent online companies such as CompuServe and Prodigy, prior to the advent of the commercial Internet.