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Alan Clark is the founder and President of Telchemy, the leading provider of fault/ performance management technology for VoIP. He was previously the CTO of Hayes, and System Architect with British Telecom.
Dr Clark was the inventor of the V.42bis data compression algorithm widely used in modems, and has nine granted patents. He is a recognized authority on Voice over IP management and quality, and is a regular speaker at Voice over IP conferences. 
MODERATOR:  Session #ISP-111: Voice over IP: Overcoming Barriers to Successful Deployment

Alan Menezes is vice president of marketing for Aperto Networks. He is responsible for leading the company's worldwide marketing initiatives, including product management and corporate marketing. Prior to joining Aperto, Mr. Menezes was vice president of marketing at AccessLan Communications, a DSL solutions company. He also co-founded OnStream Networks, an innovator in broadband access solutions acquired by 3Com, where he created and led the marketing organization. Mr. Menezes also held leadership and executive positions in marketing and engineering at 3Com, DSC and Nortel. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada. 
PANELIST:  Session #WISP-224: Non-line-of-sight Wireless Broadband: Blurring the Lines Between Fixed and Mobile

Alex Goldman was a technical writer at ABE Corporation in Tokyo, Japan, preparing manuals for cellular phones and other equipment during the transition from analog to digital technologies. He returned to the U.S. and edited for Simon & Schuster before joining ISP-Planet. For articles written by Alex please visit: http://isp-planet.com/authors/agoldman-index.html. Including his anti-spam directory (which continues to grow) http://isp-planet.com/services/asguide/index.html 
MODERATOR:  Session #ISP-106: Dealing with Spam at the Gateway
MODERATOR:  Session #ISP-116: Dealing with Spam at the Client
MODERATOR:  Session #ISP-226: The War on Spam: Report from the Front Lines

Amy Pendleton is the senior IP Telephony Advisor within Enterprise Networks and Services Management. Amy is responsible for helping to create strategies for Nortel's Enterprise IP Telephony portfolio with a focus on network management, quality of service, security, and advanced services.

Amy has over 10 years of telecommunications industry experience, 6 years of which have been in multimedia services over packet networks. Amy has held a variety of other engineering and architect positions in Nortel in the areas of wireless and carrier networks and data communications. She holds a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and has completed MS work in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. 
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-111: Voice over IP: Overcoming Barriers to Successful Deployment

Barry Sherwood attended Chico State and paid his dues in Silicon Valley before returning to the Chico, California area where he has resided and built his businesses with his wife and 2 sons since 1994. He is President and/or CEO of Sunset Net (ISP), CallAGuru (offering on-site computer services), and LANtrocity (software development for the emerging gaming market). He has acquired 8 other companies, is upgrading and expanding his internet business, and is just beginning to get a grip on the ins and outs of the wireless world. 
PANELIST:  Session #WISP-121: Wi-Fi Users : Who You Gonna Call?

An ISPCON veteran, Bob Carp has been been there, done that. He is president of the largest privately-held ISP in the U.S. Carp is a former High Tech Entrepreneur of the Year, and author of the largest selling book ever written on ISP's - The ISP Start Up Manual. It went through 7 printings, and was sold in 60 different countries. Currently, Carp is President of Galaxy Internet Services, Inc. which is a Boston based ISP primarily serving the east coast. He has recently written and published "The Certified Telecom Auditor Handbook and Audit Guide" which prepares ISP's and others in the fastest growing telecom carreer - auditing telecom bills. 
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:  Customer Aquisition on a Tight Budget

Brett Glass has more than 20 years of experience designing, building, writing about, and crash-testing computer hardware and software. A consultant, author, and programmer based in Laramie, Wyoming, Glass obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Case Institute of Technology and his MSEE from Stanford. He plans networks, builds and configures servers, outlines technical strategies, designs embedded systems, and writes highly-optimized "inner loop" assembly language (the key to software performance) for clients nationwide. He is also an accomplished Webmaster and UNIX system administrator. During his long and eclectic career, Brett has written portions of the code and/or documentation for such widely varied products as Borland's Pascal "toolboxes" and compilers, Living Videotext's ThinkTank, Cisco Systems routers and terminal servers, Earthstation diskless workstations, and Texas Instruments' TMS380 Token Ring networking chipset. When he's not writing, consulting, speaking, or cruising the Web in search of adventure, he may be playing the Ashbory bass, teaching Internet courses for LARIAT (Laramie's community network and Internet users' group), cooking up a storm, or enjoying spicy ethnic food. 
SPEAKER:  Session #ISP-125: ISPs: Carriers or Nannies?
SPEAKER:  Session #WISP-134: The Realities of Wireless
SPEAKER:  Session #WISP-203: Guerilla DSL: How to Deploy Dry Copper

Brian Chen is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rockstar Software. Mr. Chen brings over 12 years of technical and management experience to his direction of the company. He has spent over 10 years in management and engineering positions in the commercial software industry, including Enterprise, CRM and consumer development. Prior to founding Rockstar Software, Mr. Chen served on the development teams of Apple Computer and Berkeley Systems. 
SPEAKER:  Session #ISP-313: Subscriber Marketing Turbocharged: Building Effective Channels through Better Fulfillment Strategies

Brian has over twenty years experience in the telecommunications and networking industry. Prior to founding Chantry, Brian was Vice President and General Manager of Nortel Networks’ Wireless LAN & PAN Division where he was responsible for the vision, strategic direction, major organizational and investment decisions of the wireless LAN 802.11b/a, Bluetooth, and wireless voice businesses. As Senior Business Director of Nortel’s Internet Solutions Division, Brian founded the company’s first Internet group and established an Internet dial-access business. Brian has held senior positions with Motorola’s Internet and Data Networking Group and Bell Canada’s Computer Communication Group (CCG). He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences including IEEE, VentureFair, 802.11 Planet. 
SPEAKER:  Session #WISP-223: Virtualization: Taking the Wireless World Beyond Basic Access

Brian received an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1976, and a Bachelor of Science degree, With Honors from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1974.

Brian has over twenty years experience in commercial banking, ten of those years lending to telecom and media companies. He has provided loans to numerous internet companies duringf the past four years. He founded Erickson Financial Associates in 1992. EFA provides capital sourcing services to small and medium sized communications companies. Its efforts resulted in over $100 million in commitments for its clients. In addition, Brian has served as Treasurer, V.P. Finance and board member for several different companies. 
SPEAKER:  Session #ISP-315: Debt and Equity Sources in Today's Market

Brian Huseman is a staff attorney with the FTC's Division
of Marketing Practices and was a co-organizer of the FTC Spam Forum. At the FTC, he litigates spam and Internet fraud cases and was lead counsel on FTC v. GM Funding, Inc., the FTC's first spam case alleging that "spoofing" and failure to honor email removal representations violated the FTC Act. Brian also works on legislative and policy issues related to spam and has spoken to numerous law enforcement, marketing, and consumer groups across the country on Internet fraud and spam issues.
Prior to joining the FTC, Brian was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division. He also served as a judicial law clerk for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma and for the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court
of Appeals. 
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-126: Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Spam

Bruce is the founder and CEO of Thruport. Prior to Thruport, he founded and led digitalNation, one of the first dedicated hosting companies, overseeing more than 2,000 servers at the time of its acquisition by Verio (now NTT) in 1999. Bruce is an early pioneer of the Internet and is widely regarded as an expert on Internet
architecture and hosting infrastructure. He has been published in numerous periodicals and has been the host of technology radio programs reaching millions. He is a Board member of Diveo and HomeVisit,as well as a managing director of Dome Capital LLC, an early-stage venture capital group. 
SPEAKER:  Session #ISP-302: Selling and Marketing the Stability and Viability of Your Hosting

Bryan J. Rader has been actively involved in the cable TV industry for many years, with his primary focus on improving cable services and creating special features for real-estate owners.

In early 1996, he formed MediaWorks with several private investors from the real estate industry. His unique perspective of cable TV comes from the “customer’s viewpoint” and has given MediaWorks an edge in creating specialized products, and bundling important services to satisfy apartment residents, all while considering the needs of the building owner.

In a short period of time, MediaWorks has become a leader known for its marketing and customer service skills, serving over 32,000 units and 18,000 subscribers as of March 2002 MediaWorks was recently honored with the Cornerstone Award for “Cable Company of the Year” for 2002. Mr. Rader was also listed as one of the “25 Most Influential People in Real Estate and Technology” in 2002. 
MODERATOR:  Session #ISP-314: High-Speed Data Deployment within MDUs

Carl Shivers is CIO for Aristotle.Net Inc., a full-service ISP and multimedia design company in Little Rock, Arkansas. Co-founded by Mr. Shivers in 1995, Aristotle is the largest ISP in the state, with over 26,000 customers statewide. As System Administrator, Mr. Shivers is primarily responsible for all aspects of the ISP, including server installation, firewall security, technical support services, billing operations, server maintenance, and server software, including filtering software. Mr. Shivers is a Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) and Checkpoint Certified Security Engineer (CCSE). 
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-226: The War on Spam: Report from the Front Lines

A former Senior Technical Security Officer for the National Reconnaissance Agency, Chey Cobb is a Certified Information System Security Professional who has designed secure network applications for use at Cape Canaveral and handled security incidents on some of America's largest and most sensitive networks. A keynote speaker at BlackHat and other security conferences, Chey has taught security to National Security Agency employees and post-graduate students of Information Assurance. She is the author of Network Security for Dummies and is currently at work completing Cryptography for Dummies. 
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-316: Perfect Storm? Spam Attacks, False Positives, and Malware

Christopher Thompson works with Anthony Advisors, Inc., a mergers and
acquisitions advisory group in Charlottesville, Virginia. Mr. Thompson
is responsible for evaluating potential transactions, managing and
evaluating transaction diligence, and negotiating and closing
transactions on both the buy and sell side in the Data Communications
sector. Prior to joining Anthony Advisors in 2002, Mr. Thompson
launched a company delivering a WISP platform product for airports.
Before his entrepreneurial pursuit, Mr. Thompson spent three years in
New York at Lehman Brothers selling equity derivatives. He received his
BA in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
his MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Graduate School of Business at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-315: Debt and Equity Sources in Today's Market

Chuck Eapen, Vice President of Sales for Trango Broadband Wireless, has been
engaged in the wireless communications technology industry over the past
decade and joined Trango Systems, Inc. in 2002. He earned a B.E. degree in
Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook
and has held senior positions in sales/marketing, product management and
engineering. 
PANELIST:  Session #WISP-104: Creating the Wireless Future: Opportunities for ISPs and WISPs

Dan Moffatt co-founded New Edge Networks after 22 years of experience in telecommunications. Previously, Moffat held various executive level positions with GST Telecom. Prior to this, Moffat founded a telecom strategy consulting firm which he later sold to to Cathey, Hutton and Associates and also held sales and marketing positions with US Intelco Networks (Illuminet), Pacific Telecom, IBM/ROLM, US West - Netech and Tymnet, one of the original packet-based value-added networks. He is first vice chairman of the Association for Local Telecommunications Services (ALTS). He holds a bachelor's degree in finance from California State University, Chico, an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University and a master's degree in telecommunications from Golden Gate University. A tri-athlete, Dan has completed four Ironman races in the last four years. 
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-135: Backhaul Basics

Dave Baker is Vice President for Law and Public Policy for EarthLink. Based in Atlanta, EarthLink is the nation’s third-largest Internet service provider (ISP), with five million dial-up, broadband, web hosting and wireless Internet customers. Dave leads EarthLink’s public policy initiatives on matters such as broadband access, spam, copyrights, taxation and powerline communications.

Dave is former Commissioner and Chairman of the Georgia Public Service Commission. He served on the NARUC Communications Committee and on the FCC’s Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service.

Dave currently serves on the Boards of the U.S. Internet Service Providers Association (US ISPA), the Georgia Electronic Commerce Association (GECA) and the Power Line Communications Association (PLCA). He is the immediate past Chairman of the California ISP Association (CISPA). In January 2003, he was appointed by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to serve on the Governor’s Telecommunications and Technology Task Force.

He earned his BA in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University and his law degree from Washington & Lee University. He and his family live in Atlanta. 
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-226: The War on Spam: Report from the Front Lines

David Robertson has led STIC.NET to the position of dominant ISP in the San Antonio market. Under Robertson's leadership as President of the Texas Internet Service Provider's Association, that group has become the largest State ISP association in the country. The Federal Communications Commission has attested that TISPA has been more effective in influencing national policy than all other ISP trade associations/groups
combined. Taking a direct role in the challenges to the association, Robertson is the primary negotiator to the FCC, U.S. Congress, the house commerce committee, the Public
Utilities Commission of Texas. 
SPEAKER:  Session #ISP-115: Anti-Trust Primer

Dave Nelson is the Wireless Networking Architect within the Office of the CTO at Enterasys Networks, with additional responsibility for Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) technologies. Dave is responsible for developing the corporate strategy for these areas of technology, acts as primary consultant to the Wireless Engineering Group, and consults across multiple engineering groups on common AAA issues. Dave participates in industry standards bodies, such as the IEEE, where he is a voting member of the 802.11 Working Group, and the IETF, where he monitors work with potential impact on the company's Wireless Networking and AAA strategies.

Dave has over 24 years of industry experience and has previously held architect and other senior level engineering positions within Enterasys Networks, Cabletron Systems and Digital Equipment Corporation in the areas of wireless networks, virtual private networks, remote access servers, terminal servers and local area networks. Dave holds a BS degree in Physics from the University of New Hampshire and has completed MS work in Computer Science at the University of Connecticut. 
SPEAKER:  Session #WISP-105: Authentication and Encryption in Wireless Networks: Working with 802.11 Security

David Brussin is a recognized expert on anti-spam, technical information security and privacy issues, and is a software architect at Symantec in the Network and Gateway Security solution group. Prior to joining Symantec, he was co-founder and CTO of TurnTide where he oversaw the technical development of the company's anti-spam systems, as well as all client implementation and ongoing services. Brussin also worked as CTO for the ePrivacy Group, where he focused on creating new technology to address spam and email security problems including the Trusted Sender program and TEOS (Trusted Email Open Standard). Brussin was recently named to the 2004 list of the world's 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation. Technology Review recognized Brussin for his groundbreaking contributions in information security, including his development of secure information handling processes and electronic business systems as well as novel solutions to spam and email security problems. 
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-106: Dealing with Spam at the Gateway

David H. Kramer is a member of the firm specializing in Internet-related litigation and counseling with emphasis on privacy and intellectual property matters. He provides daily counseling to Internet pioneers and startups on cutting edge strategies and novel theories of liability. Kramer represented RealNetworks in the first ever case brought under the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and secured a preliminary injunction prohibiting the abuse of RealNetworks' ubiquitous technology. On behalf of XO Communications, Inc. Mr. Kramer successfully defended a putative class action seeking between $50 and $150 million in statutory damages under the junk fax provisions of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Kramer obtained rulings in both the trial and appellate courts barring class certification in the case. On behalf of online greeting card leader Blue Mountain Arts, Kramer obtained orders prohibiting Microsoft from including a filter in its Outlook email program that Blue Mountain claimed was anti-competitive. As counsel for CyberMedia, Inc., Kramer secured a preliminary injunction requiring Symantec Corp. to institute a nationwide recall of software that CyberMedia charged was infringing its copyright. Kramer also represented CompuServe in litigation against the nation's leading sender of unsolicited commercial email or "spam" and obtained a sweeping injunction prohibiting spamming under a novel trespass to chattels theory. He later drafted legislation at both the state and federal levels concerning email abuse and fraud. Kramer received his law degree, magna cum laude, in 1993 from Georgetown University Law Center and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Dartmouth College. He joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in March 1996 after spending three years at the Palo Alto office of Brown & Bain, a firm specializing in intellectual property litigation. He is presently admitted to practice before all California state and federal courts. Kramer is author of: "Who Can Use Yesterday's News: Video Monitoring & The Fair Use Doctrine," 81 Georgetown Law Journal 2345 (1994); and co-author of: "Not As Clean As They Wanna Be: Intermediate Copying in Campbell v. Acuff Rose," 16 Hastings Communications & Entertainment Law Journal 607 (1994); "A Reversal of Fortune: Recent Developments in Copyright Law," 19 Computer Law Reporter 416 (1994), 10 Tolley's Computer Law & Practice 159 (1994). 
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-126: Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Spam
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-136: Suing Spammers

An experienced entrepreneur, Dave has a successful 18-year track record in high-technology marketing and management. Most recently, as co-founder and VP of Marketing of Linuxcare, Inc., Dave defined the company's initial business model, strategy and service offerings, and built the company's brand to stand for leadership in open-source services.

Previously, Dave provided high-technology strategy consulting for clients including Crystal Decisions, Netscape, Oracle, Pinnacle Systems, Questra, Silicon Graphics and Toshiba. Before that, he held senior marketing positions at Apple Computer and NeXT, Inc. Dave earned an B.A. and M.F.A. from Columbia University, and an M.B.A. from the Tuck Graduate School of Business at Dartmouth College. 
PANELIST:  Session #WISP-103: Wi-Fi: Free or Pay?

David Murray, Executive Vice President for Propel Software has over 23 years of software development experience, having experienced both the technical and management sides of the equation. With Propel since it’s inception, David has worked with hundreds of ISPs in rolling out web acceleration to their subscriber base. In fact, David presented at last year's ISPCON conference, on the topic of evaluating dial-up web accelerators.

Most recently, David co-founded Medici Technology, which developed and marketed data mining, GIS analysis, and strategic marketing software tailored specifically for the community banking market place. Before Medici, David co-founded the internet services business at Geographic Services Corporation (GSC), and prior to GSC, David co-founded Frame Technology. 
MODERATOR:  Session #ISP-101: Getting the Most from Dial-up Acceleration

David Perry has more than 18 years experience in the IT industry in a variety of sales, marketing and senior management positions. He has worked in both successful startups such as Madge Networks and FORE Systems as well as larger companies including Texas Instruments and PairGain Technologies. Most recently, he was director of worldwide marketing for Network Computing Devices, a leader in development and sale of thin client network products. He holds a Bachelors degree in chemical physics from the University of London, and an MBA from Cranfield. 
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-135: Backhaul Basics

An industry expert in wireless products, applications and markets, Mr. Kerton has developed products for multiple wireless technologies, designed strategies for wireless carriers, and managed content and application implementation projects- including 7 of the Internet's top 100 websites. Mr. Kerton's industry expertise is recognized in his widely distributed wireless industry reports, articles, newsletters, and frequent quotes in established media outlets.

Derek runs The Kerton Group, a specialized consulting firm focused on the wireless marketplace that works with multinational wireless carriers, component suppliers, hardware, software and device manufacturers, and service companies - across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Our projects include business development, marketing, product strategy, and research for the wireless Internet, the cellular marketplace, 2.5G, 3G, WLAN, Bluetooth, mobile devices, and fixed wireless. 
MODERATOR:  Session #WISP-204: Is Wi-Fi a Suitable "Wide-area" Technology?
MODERATOR:  Session #WISP-224: Non-line-of-sight Wireless Broadband: Blurring the Lines Between Fixed and Mobile

Dewayne Hendricks is currently CEO, of the Dandin Group, Inc., based in Fremont, California, USA. Dandin Group offers a comprehensive range of products and services, including research and product development, for wireless communications via the Internet. The Dandin Group will begin to deploy the first exclusively wireless Internet based communications system, including voice, data and video, in the Kingdom of Tonga later this year. He is also an active member of the Federal Communications Commission Technological Advisory Council (FCC/TAC).

Prior to forming Dandin Group, he was the General Manager of the Wireless Business Unit for Com21, Inc. He joined Com21 following an opportunity to participate as the Co-Principal Investigator in the National Science Foundation’s Wireless Field Tests for Education project. The project sucessfully connected remote educational institutions to the Internet. The test sites ranged from rural primary schools in Colorado, USA to a University in Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia.

Dewayne was the CEO and co-founder of Tetherless Access Ltd. Tetherless Access was one of the first companies to develop and deploy Part 15 unlicensed wireless metropolitan area data networks using the TCP/IP protocols. He has participated in the installation of these networks in other parts of the world including: Kenya, Tonga, Mexico, Canada and Mongolia.

Back in 1986, he ported the popular KA9Q Internet Protocol package to the Macintosh, allowing the Macintosh platform to be used in packet radio networks. Today, thousands of amateur radio operators worldwide use the NET/Mac system he developed to participate in the global packet radio Internet. This system continues to be developed and deployed by the amateur radio service.

He has been involved with radio since receiving his amateur radio operator's license as a teen. He currently holds official positions in several national non-profit amateur radio organizations and is a director of the Wireless Communications Alliance, an industry group representing manufacturers in the unlicensed radio industry.

Dewayne’s background includes several other entrepreunerial positions as CEO and founder, and inclusion on various “top 100” lists as an innovator in the industry. More information on Dewayne is available at the Dandin Group web site: http://www.dandin.com/. Information on the FCC TAC can be found on the FCC web site at: http://www.fcc.gov/oet/tac If you would like to contact Dewayne you can email him at: dewayne@dandin.com. 
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:  One Gigabit or Bust!

Doug Kaye is a consultant, author, and lecturer. His most recent book, "Loosely Coupled--The Missing Pieces of Web Services," has been called a must-read for web-services strategic thinkers, and he literally wrote the book on web hosting: "Strategies for Web Hosting and Managed Services," considered by many customers and vendors alike to be the definitive resource of the high-end web-hosting industry. He produces "IT Conversations" (a series of downloadable and streaming audio interviews), publishes the "IT Strategy Letter" (an electronic newsletter), and is a regular contributor to The Web Host Industry Review. 
SPEAKER:  Session #ISP-212: Web Services Opportunity in the Data Center

Doug Luce is founder and president of Telerama Internet, an Internet Service and Wireless HotSpot Provider headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Luce has over 15 years of experience in the fields of Internet services, technical consulting and software engineering. The third ISP in the world, Luce launched Telerama in 1991 while a student at Carnegie Mellon University. Since the formation of Telerama, Luce has advised numerous technology startups and venture teams on both the technology and market sides of the business equation. Every year he serves as the IT Services Chair for SCinet, the International Conference for High Performance Computing and Communications. Luce holds a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University. He is married and the father of two young children. 
PANELIST:  Session #WISP-103: Wi-Fi: Free or Pay?
PANELIST:  Session #WISP-121: Wi-Fi Users : Who You Gonna Call?

Dr. Joel Short is the Chief Technology Officer and Sr. Vice President of Nomadix, a company he co-founded with Internet Pioneer Dr. Leonard Kleinrock. Nomadix is the leading provider of solutions that create intelligent Public-access networks. The company sells a family of Access Gateways to carriers, service providers and HotSpot owners and licenses its Nomadix Service Engine (NSE) software to manufacturers of networking equipment. Dr. Short serves as vice-chair of WECA's Wireless ISP Roaming (WISPr) committee and is editor and co-author of WISPr's document on "Best Common Practices for Wireless ISP (WISP) Roaming”. Dr. Short is also the co-chairman of the Public-access Task Group within the Wi-Fi Alliance. Dr. Short has extensive experience in the design and management of complex computer network systems, having worked for various technology start-ups and well-known technology companies including Apple Computer.

He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA where he was a lead contributor to various ARPA sponsored wireless and mobile research projects including TRAVLER - Transparent Virtual Networking and WAMIS - Wireless Adaptive Mobile Information Systems. 
PANELIST:  Session #WISP-104: Creating the Wireless Future: Opportunities for ISPs and WISPs

As CipherTrust's CTO, Dr. Paul Judge is responsible for research, technology development and intellectual property. Joining CipherTrust in 2000, Judge brings experience from leading companies including IBM and NASA. Since his arrival, he has served as CipherTrust's lead inventor on six patent-pending technologies in secure messaging and anti-spam.

Judge received his Ph.D. in network security from Georgia Tech, and serves as chair of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG). He has authored numerous papers featured in leading academic journals and conferences, and regularly speaks at industry and academic events, including RSA Conference and FTC Spam Forum. 
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-106: Dealing with Spam at the Gateway
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-216: Future of Spam: Leading Holistic Solutions
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-306: Anti-Spam Organizations: Who We Are, What We Do and How You Can Get Involved

Elliot Noss is well known for his compelling opinions and is a skilled presenter in all forums. He continues to work in areas of vital interest to the Internet community including privacy; ICANN reform and registrar issues; the implications of emerging technologies; and the emergence of small and medium-sized Internet service providers and web hosting companies as the unrecognized backbone of the network economy. He appears frequently on Canada's "Report on Business TV" as a technology commentator, and most recently, presented at the Digital ID World Conference; the 3rd Annual Technology CEO Summit; and at ISPCON Spring 2003. 
SPEAKER:  Session #ISP-201: The Service Advantage: How Small Players Can Win Big

Having joined Brightmail in April 2002, Enrique is focused on providing the strategy and vision and driving execution that will enable Brightmail to grow its leadership position in securing messaging systems.

Prior to Brightmail, Enrique served as senior vice president of products and technology at Oblix, where he spearheaded corporate strategy and development by leading the company's engineering, product management, and technology groups. Before Oblix, Enrique was vice president of technology and operations at Ask Jeeves Inc. where he was responsible for the engineering group and the company's entire IT operation. Prior to that, he lead the security business unit at Symantec Corporation, helping to grow the unit's revenue from $200 million to $460 million over a three year period. Earlier in his career, Enrique was a vice president at Security Pacific Merchant Bank, where he led projects for the development of real-time trading systems. 
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-106: Dealing with Spam at the Gateway

In 2002, Felix Lin joined forces with previous AvantGo co-founders to establish a new company called Qurb to fight the war on spam, serving as chief executive officer. In 1997, Felix Lin co-founded AvantGo, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), where he served as CEO and chairman of the and then as vice chairman, continuing to influence the direction of the business through its IPO and subsequent acquisition by Sybase in late 2002.

Prior to founding AvantGo, Felix was director of Internet strategy for Versant Object Technology. Before that, he served as database product marketing manager at NeXT Computer, Inc. and product manager at Cadre Technology (now Sterling Software). 
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-116: Dealing with Spam at the Client

Frank Muto is President and CEO of FSM Marketing Group, Inc. FSM Marketing Group, Inc began in April of 1997 and incorporated in June of 2000. The mission is to develop strategic business plans for start up and small businesses to create an eCommerce eBusiness presence on the Internet. Presently the company is hosting and developing numerous small businesses and developing an aggregated network of dial-up and DSL Internet access locally and nationally.

President webCOMBO, Inc. May 3, 2000 to March 1, 2001; Sales director January 1998 to April 2000. Internet Service Provider (ISP). Web hosting and development including dial-up access for over 50,000 subscribers.

From June 1977 through August 1999 Mr. Muto established a solid career in the Automotive Parts and Repair Service industry. Effective management of inventory, cash flow, sales development and strategies lead the way for many companies to profit from Mr. Muto's skills. 
SPEAKER:  Session #ISP-213: 50 Marketing Ideas in 50 Minutes

Gary Kibel is a former IT professional turned lawyer and now practices in the areas of New Media, Advertising and Intellectual Property law with Davis & Gilbert in New York. Davis & Gilbert's clients include wireless service carriers; broadband providers; advertising, media and public relations agencies; software development companies; and Internet trade associations. Gary regularly counsels clients regarding issues such as SMS-based and other wireless services, spam, privacy and security, interactive advertising, technology licensing, development and maintenance of fixed and wireless networks, sponsorship and joint marketing arrangements and enterprise-wide technology implementations. He has spoken at Internet World and American Bar Association conferences. Prior to becoming an attorney, Gary was an information systems analyst with the Investment Banking Division of Merrill Lynch & Co. 
SPEAKER:  Session #WISP-205: Wireless But Not Lawless: The Evolving Legal and Regulatory Landscape

Gary Tomlinson serves as the Chief Architect of Aventail's leading clientless SSL VPN product line and has more than 24 years experience in operating system development, software architecture and networking technologies. Prior to joining Aventail, Tomlinson was CTO for CacheFlow, now BlueCoat Systems, which is a Web security appliance provider that developed the industry's first port 80 security appliance. While at CacheFlow, Tomlinson drove the development, technical strategy and architecture for the company's intellectual property. Preceding his time at CacheFlow, Tomlinson worked for Entera, which was acquired by CacheFlow in 2000. Prior to Entera, Tomlinson held several positions at Novell where he managed the advancement of the company's Web caching proxy and server accelerator, as well as directed the engineering organization in the development of Novell's initial UnixWare desktop and server products.

Tomlinson has published numerous papers for the research community, sits on various boards and committees, and frequently speaks at industry events. 
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-312: The VPN Debate: IPSec vs SSL

George Sutcliffe is Senior Director of Marketing for Pac-West Telecomm, one of the largest competitive local exchange carriers headquartered in California. George has over 11 years of executive level experience in competitive voice, data, and Internet services. He has spent the past two years leading Pac-West's product strategies for its two target markets - service providers and small and medium-sized enterprises. Most recently, George led Pac-West's launch of Dial Broadband, a clientless web acceleration service. With Pac-West's network carrying over 20% of the dial-up Internet traffic in California, George provides valuable insight into web acceleration solutions and their current and future impact on dial-up Internet access and the ISP industry. 
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-101: Getting the Most from Dial-up Acceleration

 
PANELIST:  Session #ISP-226: The War on Spam: Report from the Front Lines

Henry Smith is the CEO of HOTSPOTZZ, one of the largest providers of public
wireless hot spots. HOTSPOTZZ is a subsidiary of IKANO Communications, the
market-leading provider of private-label Internet Services. Smith is a
recognized leader throughout the Internet industry. He has been a featured
speaker at many ISP industry conferences. Recently, Smith participated in a
panel of top hot spot providers at the 2002 Wireless Hot Spots Conference &
Expo. In addition, Smith has been featured as a guest columnist for ISP
World. IKANO is the parent company of HOTSPOTZZ, SISNA, and
auracom/Interhop. 
PANELIST:  Session #WISP-104: Creating the Wireless Future: Opportunities for ISPs and WISPs

Jack Unger, the Founder and President Wireless InfoNet, Inc has been serving the broadband wireless industry for the past eleven years. Since 1993, he has designed, built, and provided support for hundreds of outdoor wireless WANs and wireless ISP (WISP) networks. In 2001 he created the world’s first vendor-neutral WISP training and deployment seminar which he presents at public and private sessions around the country as well as at wireless industry trade shows. In 2003 he authored the first-ever book for the license-free wireless WAN industry, “Deploying License-Free Wireless WANs”. This vendor-neutral handbook (published by Cisco Press) helps WISPs successfully build and operate reliable outdoor license-free wireless networks. Mr. Unger currently provides consulting services, network engineering, WISP design and deployment training, wireless site surveys, and on-site network troubleshooting for WISPs nationwide.

In addition to Mr. Unger’s eleven years of broadband wireless service, his career includes fourteen years with telecommunications giants ROLM, IBM, Siemens, and NEC in California’s “Silicon Valley”. Before his work in the telecommunications industry, Mr. Unger sold wireless communications equipment, including radio and television broadcast station equipment for seven years. Jack credits his advancement in the broadband wireless field to his original “initiation” into wireless as an amateur radio operator at the age of eleven.

Jack has earned AA, AS, and BA degrees, holds FCC Amateur Extra and General Radiotelephone licenses, as well as an FAA Private Pilot license. From 1990 until 2001 Jack served as a volunteer Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician in the redwoods of Santa Cruz County, California. 
SPEAKER:  Session #EXCHANGE: EXCHANGE #1 Wireless War Stories
SPEAKER:  Session #WISP-214: Managing Noise and RF Interference

Mr. Ruffer's prior experience includes a position as Albany Sales Engineer and Sales Trainer for Fairpoint Communications where he acquired invaluable experience and
contacts in the telecom and CLEC industries, and a position as Systems Administrator and Manager for a local ISP - EmpireOne Incorporated where he excelled in managing a
variety of employee's as well as experience with many different technical systems. In addition Mr. Ruffer has earned certification as a Novell CNA, a Microsoft MCSE,
Cisco CCNA, and BSDI administration. 
SPEAKER:  Session #EXCHANGE: EXCHANGE #2
ISP-CEO Round Table

Mr. Stenger concentrates his practice in the areas of telecommunications and technology. He regularly represents his clients before the Federal Communications Commission and State Commissions. He counsels clients and represents them in meetings with Commissions and their Staffs. He regularly corresponds with and talks to Commission Staff regarding the processing of applications and the interpretation of rules and policies. Mr. Stenger represents clients in rulemaking proceedings, adjudicated cases, applications for licenses and authorizations, mediation proceedings, and settlement conferences. He provides strategic advice to his clients and represents them in negotiating and closing a variety of business transactions.
Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 1978)
magna cum laude
Glasgow University, Scotland (B.A., 1975)with honors, Economics and Politics 
SPEAKER:  Session #ISP-124: Broadband Over Power Lines and Cable Television Systems - FCC Proceedings and the 9th Circuit Cable Modem Decision

Jared Reimer joined The River as Vice President of Operations, when it merged with Sense Networking in December, 2000. Mr. Reimer was principally responsible for the development of the company’s core network and server infrastructure. He became President & CEO in February, 2003.

Jared counts a decade of professional experience in the ISP industry. He has literally done it all. With extensive hands-on working knowledge of every aspect of the ISP business, he comes uniquely suited to lead The River's management team.

Jared is also actively involved with the Washington Association of Internet Service Providers, and the Seattle Internet eXchange, a major Internet peering point. He has participated in several lobbying efforts to help prevent legislation that would be damaging to the Internet community.

Mr. Reimer is a graduate of the University of Washington, with BS and Master’s degrees in Computer Science. He teaches part-time for the University of Washington's distance learning project. He also serves as a Director on The River's board of directors. 
SPEAKER:  Session #ISP-222: Four Ways to Survive and Thrive via Strategic Outsourcing

Jason Young was named Sr. VP/Gen. Manager of Ziff Davis Internet in February 2002. He was previously VP of Sales. Young brings more than ten years of sales and management experience in high-tech publishing and the Internet to the position. He oversees Internet sales, marketing, editorial and business development for all of the company's Web sites. Prior to joining Ziff Davis Internet, Young was Vice President of Advertising Sales and Business Development at TheStreet.com where he set all-time records for generating revenue. He started his career at Ziff Davis Media in 1990. Young has been National Advertising Director-Windows Sources magazine, Publisher-Windows Pro magazine, Corp. Sales Director of Ziff Davis Media and Advertising Director of ZDNet. (AB in English from Tufts University.) 
SPEAKER:  Session #ISP-211: Integrated and Contextual Marketing: Unique Ways To Deliver Value To Readers and Marketers

Since founding Equinix Al Avery in 1998, Jay Adelson has served as the company’s CTO, where he leads technology development at Equinix in support of the company's mission to build and operate the highest performance points on the Internet. Adelson is primarily responsible for the design of the Internet Business Exchange centers, as well as the design and deployment of various Equinix services to enhance customers' ability to interconnect with each other in a scalable, reliable fashion. Adelson is a frequent speaker at leading industry events and investor conferences. 
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