MMTC Access to Capital 2010 ConfBook

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Eighth Annual Access

to Capital and

elecommuncationsPolicy Conference

hirteenth Annual

Hall of Fame Awards

July 19 July 20, 2010

Renaissance Dupont Circle Hotel

Washington, D.C.


2/542WELCOME

Our conference is the

preeminent media

and telecom financial

gathering focused

on minorities

July 19, 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Welcome to MMTCs Eighth Annual Access to Capital and Telecom Policy Conference.Were glad youre here.Our conference is the preeminent media and telecom financial gathering focused on minorities.

No other conference does what we do or has the focus that we have.

This has been an extraordinary challenging year in MMTCs history and, throughout the conference

you will hear of the many new and exciting initiatives we have and will be undertaking.

Id like to convey our deepest appreciation to our many conference sponsors, especiallyour Gold Sponsors, BIA Financial Network, the National Association of Broadcasters and

Time Warner Cable, our Silver Sponsors, AT&T and Comcast, and our Bronze Sponsors,

NetCommunications and SNL Kagan. This conference would not be possible without them

Special mention must be made here of two donors well be honoring for their extraordinary

generosity, commitment to diversity and vision: Clear Channel Communications, whose

contribution to MMTC of several radio stations is enabling us to build a nonprofit radio

group to train minorities in broadcasting, and Trinity Broadcasting Network, which

is arranging to donate to MMTC the largest gift of spectrum in history up to 155

LPTV stations.

I also owe thanks to our stellar Executive Committee, Board of Directors, Board of Advisors and

Best Minds Policy Committee for giving MMTC so much of themselves over the years. Thanks,

too, to Joycelyn James, Jacqueline Clary, Marcella Gadson, Laura Berrocal and Dorrissa Griffin,

who are MMTCs staff, and to our tireless President and Executive Director, David Honig, for their

never-ending work in advancing the cause of minority ownership, equal employment and contracting

opportunities in the media, telecom and broadband industries.

Throughout the year, MMTC does its very best to advance the interests of minorities in Washington

media, telecom and broadband policy debates and decisions. This is profoundly difficult and

challenging work for an organization with limited human and fiscal resources. Your support and

participation throughout the year are much needed and always appreciated.

I hope you have a great conference and thank you for joining us.

Sincerely,

Henry M. Rivera

Chair, MMTC

3636 16th Street, N.W., Suite B-366, Washington, D.C. 20010 202-332-0500 Fax: 202-332-7511 www.mmtconline.o


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EIGHTH ANNUAL ACCESS TO CAPITAL AND

TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY CONFERENCE

Renaissance Dupont Circle Hotel, 1143 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Monday, July 19, 2010: Telecom Policy Day

8:00 AM Broadband And Social Justice Breakfast

Welcome

Hon. Henry M. Rivera, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP; Chair, MMTC

Presiding Francisco Montero, Partner, Fletcher Heald & Hildreth, P.L.C.;

Member, MMTC Board of Directors

Speakers The State Of Social Justice In Broadband

Hon. Daisy Lynum, President, Women in Municipal Government

David Honig, President and Executive Director, MMTC

9:30 AM How To Achieve Universal First Class Citizenship In The Digital Age

Co-Presiding Hon. Julia Johnson, President,NetCommunications Inc.; Treasurer, MMTC


The View From The National Broadband Plan

Blair Levin, Communications and Society Fellow, Aspen Institute;

former Executive Director, FCC Broadband Initiative

The View From Content

Cleveland Spears, General Manager, The Flow powered by iM4radio BN

The View From Distribution

John Muleta, Founder and CEO, M2Z Networks; Member, MMTC Board of Advisors

The View From Cable

David Don, Senior Director of Public Policy, Comcast Corp.

The View From Wireless

David Hill, Vice President and Associate General Counsel Federal Advocacy, Verizon

The View From Telephony

Cynthia Marshall, President,AT&T North Carolina

The View From The Future

Hon. Shirley Franklin, Senior Executive Advisor, Alliance for Digital Equality;

former Mayor, Atlanta, GA

MONDAY


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11:30 AM A Conversation With FCC Commissioners

Presiding Hon. Henry M. Rivera, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP; Chair, MMTC

Speakers Hon. Robert McDowell, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

Hon. Meredith Baker, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

Hon. Mignon Clyburn, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission (by video link)

12:30 PM Telecommunications Policy Luncheon And Keynote Address

Presiding Maurita Coley,Executive Director, Capital Area Asset Builders; Vice Chair, MMTC

Invocation DorrissaGrifn,MMTC Law Clerk; President, Christian Legal Society, FAMU School of Law

Presentation The Distinguished Pro Bono Achievement Award

Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Accepted by Mark Dever

Presented by Whitney Marshall,MMTC Law Clerk

Presentation Extraordinary Service Award

Cynthia Marshall, President, AT&T North Carolina

Presented by Dr. Jannette Dates,Dean, School of Communications, Howard University;


Presentation Broadband And Social Justice1.0

Nicol Turner-Lee, Vice President and Director, Media and Technology Institute,

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies; Member, MMTC Board of Directors

Presentation Minority Digital Entrepreneurship:

Recommendations To The FCC From The New Media Entrepreneurs Conference

Angela Benton, Publisher, BlackWeb2.0 and Politic365

Announcement MMTC Cathy Hughes Fellowship


Linda Vilardo, Chief Administrative Officer, Radio One, Inc.;Member, MMTC Board of Advisors

Remarks Hon. Jonathan Adelstein,Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, U.S. Department of Agricultu

Introduction Hon. Gloria Tristani, Of Counsel, Spiegel & McDiarmid LLP;


Telecom Policy Keynote

Speaker Jeff Valdez, Co-Chairman, Maya Entertainment

MONDAY


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2:30 PM Broadband And Social Justice Keynote

Presiding Manny Mirabal, Chair, Hispanic Technology and

Telecommunications Partnership (HTTP)

Broadband and Social Justice Keynote

Speaker Rey Ramsey, President and CEO, TechNet, Chair, One Economy Corp.;

Member, MMTC Board of Advisors

3:30 PM From The Mountaintop: Industry Leaders Address Digital Equality

Presiding Ari Q. Fitzgerald, Partner, Hogan Lovells; Secretary, MMTC

Speakers DeanGareld,President and CEO, Information Technology Industry Council

Walter McCormick, President, U.S. Telecom The Broadband Association

Kyle McSlarrow, President National Cable and Telecommunications Association

Hon. Gordon Smith, President, National Association of Broadcasters

5:30 - 8:00 PM Thirteenth Annual MMTC Hall Of Fame Reception

Presiding Hon. Henry M. Rivera, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP; Chair, MMTC

The Value Of Diversity

Hon. Michael J. Copps, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

Inductees MMTC Hall Of Fame Awards

Angela Benton, Publisher, BlackWeb2.0 and Politic365

Inducted by Kristal High, President, Media Foundation Group

Rey Ramsey, CEO, TechNet; Chair, One Economy Corp.; Member, MMTC Board of Advisors

Inducted by Joycelyn James, Cathy Hughes Fellow, MMTC

8:15 - 10:00 PM Colloquium: Building A National Movement Of Minority Digital Entrepreneurs

Discussion Patrick Gusman,Executive Director, TechNetWorks

Leader

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010: Access To Capital Day

8:00 AM Entrepreneurship Breakfast: The Jump From Broadcasting

And Publishing To Online Media

Co-Presiding Joseph Miller,Deputy Director, Media and Technology Institute, Joint Center

for Political and Economic Studies

Kristal High, President, Media Foundation Group

Opening Remarks

Hon. Bobby L. Rush,Member of Congress

Speakers Mark Fratrik, Vice President, BIA Financial Network

Anita Stephens Graham, General Partner, Opportunity Capital PartnersNavarrow Wright, President,Maximum Leverage Solutions

Jerry L. Johnson, Vice President, RLJ Equity Partners, LLC

9:30 AM Creating, Financing And Building A Startup Company

Moderator Erwin Krasnow, Partner, Garvey Schubert Barer; Vice Chair, MMTC

Speakers Eric Broyles, Founder & CEO, Megree, Inc.

Juan Pablo Giometti, President and CEO, National Hispanic EntrepreneursOrganization (NHEO

David Grain, Founder and CEO, Grain Communications GroupH. Edward Young, Jr., CEO, 40A, Inc.

10:30 AM Remarks From The Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

Presiding Henry M. Rivera, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP; Chair, MMTC

Remarks Hon. Julius Genachowski, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

10:45 AM The Procurement Office Is Open For Business

Presiding Ronald Johnson, President, Ronson Network Services; Member, MMTC Board of Directors

Speaker Thomas Power, Chief of Staff, National Telecommunications and Information

Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

Remarks Alithia Bruinton,Associate Director, AT&T Supplier Diversity

Michelle Hankston, Regional Buyer Analyst, Time Warner Cable

Ajamu Johnson,Director, Supplier Diversity, Comcast Corp.

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12:30 PM Access To Capital Luncheon And Keynote Address

Presiding Hon. Deborah Taylor Tate,former Commissioner, FCC; Member, MMTC Board of Directors

Invocation Rev. Reggie Gay, President, ReggieGay.com

The Everett C. Parker Lifetime Achievement Award

Senator Robert Menendez

Presented by Raul Alarcon, Jr., President, CEO and Chairman of the Board,

Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc.

The Excellence In Financial Services Award

The Gladstone Companies

Accepted by David Meier,Managing Director, Private Finance

Presented by S. Jenell Trigg,Partner, Lerman Senter PLLC; Member,

MMTC Board of Advisors

Extraordinary Service Awards

Clear Channel Communications

Accepted by Steve Davis, Senior Vice President, Engineering & Capital Management,

Clear Channel Radio

Trinity Broadcasting NetworkAccepted by Colby May, Counsel

Presented by Hon. Julia Johnson, President, NetCommunications Inc.;

Treasurer, MMTC

Presentation Multicultural Digital Entrepreneurship

York Eggleston, CEO, Semantic Labs, LLC

Introduction Hon. Julia Johnson, President, NetCommunications, Inc.; Treasurer, MMTC

Access To Capital Keynote

Speaker Leo Hindery, Chairman and CEO, InterMedia Partners; Member, MMTC Board of Directors

UESDAY


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Arbitron

AT&T

Blackbird

Comcast

Fletcher Heald & Hildreth. PLC

Garvey Schubert Barer

The Gladstone Companies

K&L Gates

Kozacko & AssociatesLerman Senter

M2Z Networks

Maya Entertainment

Megree, Inc.

MMTC Media Brokers

National Association of Broadcasters/NABEF

One Caribbean Radio, Inc.

Opportunity Capital Partners

Semantic Labs

Spanish Broadcasting System

SYNCOM Funds

Time Warner Cable

Wiley Rein

2:30 - 5:30 PM Financial, Transactional And Procurement Forum

The Forum provides minority entrepreneurs, and companies interested in doing business

with them, an opportunity to meet face to face, discuss business plans, and explore potential

relationships and services.

Entrepreneurs may sign up at the conference registration table for appointments with

representativesofcompaniesandnancialinstitutionsseekingtodobusinesswith

minority entrepreneurs.

Table Hosts:


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GOLD

BIA Financial Network

National Association o Broadcasters

ime Warner Cable Inc.

ELECOMMUNICAIONS POLICY LUNCHEON

BlackWeb2.0

Clear Channel Communications, Inc.

News Corporation

ACCESS O CAPIAL LUNCHEON

Politic365

HALL OF FAME RECEPION

Citadel Broadcasting Corporation

ION elevision

National Cable and elecommunicationsAssociation

Spanish Broadcasting System

Verizon

BROADBAND AND SOCIAL JUSICE BREAKFAS

Cablevision

CBS Corp.

Te Walt Disney Company

Te Hispanic Institute

Hispanic echnology andelecommunications Partnership

NBC Universal

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP

USelecom

SILVER

A&

Comcast

BRONZE

NetCommunications Inc.

SNL Kagan

ENREPRENEURSHIP BREAKFASArbitron Inc.

Council ree Communications, Inc.

CIA-Te Wireless Association

InterMedia Partners, LP

One Caribbean Radio

Radio One, Inc.

Te RLJ Companies

T M M C k k .

MMC 2010 ACCESS O CAPIAL AND ELECOM POLICY CONFERENCE SPONSORS

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Alliance or Women in Media

Asian American Justice Center

Arnold & Porter LLP

Belo Corp.

Black College Communications Association

Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association

Bonneville International

Bright House Networks

Broadcast1Source

Capital Wire PR

Communications Workers o America

Cox Enterprises

Davis Wright remaine LLP

Dialogue on Diversity

DirecV

Dow Lohnes

Fletcher Heald & Hildreth, PLC

Te Ghatt Law Group

Te Gladstone Companies

Hogan Lovells

International Black Broadcasters Association

Joint Center or Political and Economic Studies

Latinos in Science and echnology Association

Law Media Group

Lerman Senter PLLC

National Association o Blackelecommunications Proessionals

National Association o Latino Independent Produce

National Association o Multi-Ethnicityin Communications

National Hispanic Entrepreneurs Organization

Te Nielsen Company

Ofce o Communication o theUnited Church o Christ, Inc.

One Economy Corporation

Opportunity Capital Partners

Organization o Chinese Americans

Pike & Fischer

Puerto Rico Broadcasters Association

Rainbow PUSH Coalition

SYNCOM Venture Partners

Wilco Electronic Systems, Inc.

Wiley Rein LLP

Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

WorldBand Media Inc.

GENERAL SPONSORS

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F R. MCo-Managing Partner,Fletcher Heald & Hildreth,PLC; Member, MMTCBoard of Directors

Francisco Monterospractice includes FCCregulatory counseling,corporate finance,asset and securitiesacquisitions, intellectual

property, and real estate and commercial transactions. He writesfrequently on communications law issues for industry tradepublications, particularly in the area of radio station finance andbusiness.

Mr. Montero was an appointed member of the FederalAdvisory Committee on Diversity for Communications inthe Digital Age. He has also served as Director of the FCCsOffice of Communications Business Opportunities, workingwith industry, trade associations, financing institutions andgovernmental agencies to create business opportunities in thetelecommunications and technology sectors.

Mr. Montero is active in Hispanic and Spanish-language media iboth the U.S. and Latin America. He is on the Board of Directorof the Independent Spanish Broadcasters Association, which heco-founded; he also helped form the American Hispanic OwnedRadio Association (AHORA). In 2007, Montero was named tothe list of Top Washington DC Lawyers by SuperLawyers.comand in 2008 he was named to MMTCs Hall of Fame.

Mr. Montero received his J.D. from the George WashingtonUniversity Law School, where he served on the George WashingtUniversity Law Review. He received his B.A. degree from theUniversity of Michigan.

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Monday 8:00 AM Broadband And Social Justice Breakast

Henry M. Rivera

Partner, Wiley Rein LLPChair, MMTC

Henry Rivera specializesin representingtelecommunicationsand media companies inlegal matters before theFederal CommunicationsCommission (FCC),Congress, the National

Telecommunications and Information Administration and theWhite House. Rivera has been named among the top 12 telecomexperts in the United States by Legal Media Groups Best of theBest.

He has served as an FCC Commissioner (1981-1985), as amember of FCC and State Department Advisory Committees,and on several U.S. delegations to international telecommu-nications conferences. He is also a past president of the FederalCommunications Bar Association. Rivera, who serves on theboard of many charitable organizations, was a Founding BoardMember of Valor Telecommunications, the first Hispanic-ownedtelephone company.

Rivera received his B.A. in Economics from the University of NewMexico, and his J.D. from the University of New Mexico Schoolof Law, where he was Editor of the Natural Resources Journal. Healso received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accountingfrom the University of Albuquerque. Rivera, who is a Vietnam

veteran and recipient of the Bronze Star, currently resides inArlington, VA with his spouse, Bernadette McGuire-Rivera, Ph.D.

SPEAKERS


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Monday 8:00 AM Broadband And Social Justice Breakast

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David HonigPresident andExecutive Director,

MMTC

David Honig co-foundedthe Minority Media andTelecommunicationsCouncil (MMTC) in 1986and now serves as itsPresident and ExecutiveDirector. MMTC

currently represents over 70 minority, civil rights and religiousnational organizations in selected proceedings before the FCC. Ialso operates the nations only full-service, minority-owned medand telecom brokerage.

Honig has practiced communications and civil rights law since1983, specializing in electronic redlining and race discriminatiocases. He has taught and written extensively about issues in theintersection between civil rights and international and domesticcommunications. The National Law Journalhas named Honig oof the 30 most influential communications lawyers.

Honig serves on the National Urban Leagues Technology

Advisory Council and is Chair of the Constitutional IssuesSubcommittee of the FCCs Advisory Committee on Diversityfor Communications in the Digital Age. He holds a B.A. inMathematics from Oberlin College, an M.S. in Systems Analysisfrom the University of Rochester and a law degree cum laude froGeorgetown University.

HonorableDaisy W. Lynum

President,Women in MunicipalGovernment

Commissioner DaisyWilliams Lynum waselected to the OrlandoCity Council in April1998. She is activelyinvolved in all aspects

of community, professional and political service. In addition toserving as President of Women in Municipal Government, sheis Chair of the National Black Caucus of Local Elected OfficialsFoundation.

Her career includes work as a teacher, a social worker and anadministrator. Her civic contributions include service to theFlorida League of Cities Urban Administration, the NationalLeague of Cities and the Orange County Voters League. In 2005,Onyx Magazine named Commissioner Lynum as one of 56 mostinfluential African Americans in the State of Florida.

Ms. Lynum earned an undergraduate degree in Sociology at

Bethune-Cookman College and a graduate degree in ClinicalSocial Work (MSW) from Florida State University. In 2000,Commissioner Lynum completed the John F. Kennedy Schoolof Government Program for Executives at Harvard University.Florida Metropolitan University awarded her an honoraryDoctorate of Humane Letters in May 2005. Commissioner Lynumis the proud mother of two sons and two granddaughters.


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Monday 9:30 AM How o Achieve Universal First Class Citizenship In Te Digital Age

SPEAKERSSPEAKERS

Julia JohnsonPresident,NetCommunications, Inc.;Treasurer, MMTC

Julia Johnson leadsNetCommunications,Inc., a national regulatoryand public affairs firmcomprised of highlyspecialized attorneysand regulatory analysts.

It focuses primarily on governmental and regulatory practices,combined with media and public relations.

Ms. Johnson also serves as the Chairwoman for Communica-tions Policy Development and Outreach for the Florida StateConference of the NAACP. She is the Treasurer and a Director ofMMTC and serves as Chair of the National Advisory Board to theNational Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women. Shesits on the boards of several large, publicly traded corporations,including MasTec, Allegheny Energy, Northwestern EnergyCompany and American Water.

Johnson was appointed to the Florida Public Service Commission

for two consecutive terms and served as Chairman from1997-1999. From 2003-2005, she was appointed by then-FCCChair Michael Powell as the Chair of the FCC Federal AdvisoryCommittee on Diversity for Communication in the Digital Age.Johnson holds a B.S. degree in Business Management and a J.D.from the University of Florida College of Law.

Blair Levin

Communications andSociety Fellow,

Aspen Institute

Blair Levin is the formerExecutive Director ofthe FCC BroadbandInitiative, where heleveraged his vast industryexperience to coordinatethe development of the

national broadband plan. Levin previously served as chief ofstaff to former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt from 1993 through1997. During that time, he oversaw the implementation of thehistoric 1996 Telecommunications Reform Act, the first spectrumauctions, the development of digital television standards and theCommissions Internet initiative.

After his time at the FCC, Levin joined Legg Mason as the firmsprincipal telecom, media and tech regulatory and strategy analyLater, he joined the Stifel Nicolaus Research Team in connectionwith Stifels acquisition of Legg Masons Capital Markets Group.

Prior to his original service with the FCC, Levin was a partner

in the North Carolina law firm of Parker Poe, Poe, Adams andBernstein. There, he represented new communications venturesand numerous local governments on public financing issues. Heis a summa cum laude graduate of Yale College and a graduate oYale Law School.


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Cleveland SpearsGeneral Manager,The Flow, poweredby iM4radioBroadcasting NetworkCleveland Spears formeda bond with radio andmusic as a young boy.He was known as theyoungster with a talentfor mimicking radio hosts

and memorizing R&B, soul and rap songs in their entirety.In 1999, Spears launched GO Deejay!, a mobile disc jockeycompany. After an internship at WPFW-FM, he became thestations youngest on-air personality at age 21. He was soonpromoted to host and producer of the mid-day slot, where he hadthe stations highest-rated program for four consecutive years.Realizing the popularity of his non-conformist and edgy style,coupled with cutting-edge technology, Spears birthed the DCareas first radio station that did not use an AM, FM or satellitesignal. The resulting iM4radio Broadcasting Network caters tominority listeners, with 24-hour talk and music programming.

The Network was one of a few small media outlets that wereinvited to cover the 2009 Inauguration of President BarackObama.The Networks flagship station, The Flow, boasts 106,000 listeners.With three stations slated to go live in Philadelphia, Baltimore andAtlanta, the iM4radio Broadcasting Network is rapidly expanding.Spears aspires to make this new style of broadcasting as widelyused and appreciated as traditional radio.

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John MuletaCEO and Founder,

M2Z Networks;Member, MMTCBoard of Advisors

In 2005, John Muletafounded M2Z Networks,a broadband Internetaccess company, withhis partner Milo Medin.Immediately prior to

founding M2Z Networks, Muleta was Partner and Co-Chair of tCommunications Practice at Venable LLP.

Mr. Muleta distinguished himself through service in twocareer positions with the FCC. As head of its FederalTelecommunications Bureau, he implemented the Commissionspolicies regarding consumer wireless services and public safetyradio networks. He also worked in several capacities at theCommon Carrier Bureau.

Muleta also has a distinguished private-sector record as anentrepreneur, most prominently serving as a senior officer ofPSINet, Inc., a leading commercial Internet services provider.

He serves on the boards of Fiber Tower and HRSmart, a privatelheld human resources application services provider ranked asone of the fastest growing companies byInc magazine. Muletaalso serves on the advisory boards of PacketHop, Inc. and Visto,Inc., two innovative Silicon Valley companies. He holds degrees Engineering, Law and Business from the University of Virginia.


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SPEAKERS

David Don

Senior Directorfor Public Policy,Comcast Corporation

David Don has beenSenior Director for PublicPolicy at Comcast sinceJanuary 2009. Prior tothat, he was the SeniorDirector for SpectrumPolicy. Before joining

Comcast in 2006, David was an attorney in the CommunicationsPractice of Willkie Farr & Gallagher, where he specializedin wireless and common carrier matters before the FCC andCongress and in the federal courts.

Mr. Don has worked extensively on the FCCs public policyand spectrum allocation policies for more than a decade. Inhis current position, he is responsible for helping Comcastdevelop its strategies and achieve its priorities before the FCCand other regulatory agencies. He has spent considerable timedeveloping and implementing the companys strategy related tothe implementation of the American Recovery and ReinvestmentAct of 2009. This includes the FCCs National Broadband Plan,

along with the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program andbroadband mapping efforts of the National Telecommunicationsand Information Administration.

Don is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Associationand has served as Co-Chair of its Cable Practice and WirelessTelecommunications Practice Committees. He is a graduate of theGeorgetown University School of Foreign Service and graduatedcum laude from Georgetown University Law Center.

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David Hill

Vice President andAssociate General Counselfor Federal Advocacy,Verizon Communications

David Hill assists VerizonsPublic Affairs, Policyand CommunicationsGroups in developingand implementing thecompanys advocacy

efforts with the Obama Administration and with influential thirparty groups. Since joining Bell Atlantic in 1994, Hill has beenheavily involved with helping Verizon and its operating companthrive in the constantly changing, dynamic telecommunicationsmarketplace.

Prior to joining Bell Atlantic/Verizon, Hill was associated withHogan & Hartson, Washington, DCs largest law firm. As the leaattorney in Wilkins v. Maryland State Police, he helped to secureinjunctive relief preventing the use of race-based drug courierprofiles in the State of Maryland.

Hill, a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., serves on the

Board of the YMCA Youth and Family Services Branch. Hewas also a member and Class Representative of the LeadershipMontgomery (MD) Class of 2005.

Hill graduated with a degree in Social Studies from WesleyanUniversity (CT), where he has served as an alumni-elected trustHe received his J.D. from Harvard Law School.


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SPEAKERSSPEAKERS

Cynthia MarshallPresident,

AT&T North Carolina

Since 2007, CynthiaMarshall has beendirectly responsible forAT&T North Carolinasregulatory, legislativeand community affairsactivities, while alsooverseeing the operations

of 8,400 employees. She has nearly 30 years of experience in thetelecommunications industry, joining Pacific Bell in 1981.

Ms. Marshall is active in civic affairs at all levels. Nationally,she serves on the Boards of Governors of the National UtilitiesDiversity Council and of the Joint Center for Political andEconomic Studies. She also serves on the Boards of Trustees ofthe University of North Carolina at Wilmington and of BennettCollege.

Deeply committed to advocacy for children in need of adoptionor who are in foster care placements, Ms. Marshall is a memberof the Board of the North Carolina Childrens Home Society. As

a strong believer in public education, she has led AT&T NorthCarolina in focusing its corporate citizenship activities on dropoutprevention and on becoming the title sponsor of the NorthCarolina Teacher of the Year program.

Marshall has received many awards and honors, including Friendof Education from the North Carolina Association of Educators,the Award of Excellence from the Thurgood Marshall Fund,the Woman of Substance Award from Bennett College and theEagle Award from CareerFOCUS Magazine. She has received theNorth Carolina Exceptional Leader Award from North Carolina

Magazine and been named a Woman Extraordinaire byBusinessLeadermagazine.

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Shirley Franklin

Executive Senior Advisor,Alliance for DigitalEquality; former

Mayor of Atlanta

Former Atlanta MayorShirley Franklin advisesexecutives of the Alliancefor Digital Equality(ADE), a nationalnonprofit consumer

advocacy organization, as they strengthen and expand itsprograms. The ADE serves as a bridge between policymakers anminority populations, helping people understand how legislativeand regulatory policies regarding new technologies can impactand empower their daily lives. Franklin supports the organizatioin facilitating and ensuring equal access to technology in unservand underserved communities.

Ms. Franklin was elected the first African-American womanmayor of a major Southern city in 2001 and served twoterms. During her eight years as Mayor, Atlanta experiencedunprecedented population growth. Aside from her role as a pubofficial, Franklins community service in Atlanta spans more

than 35 years and includes her active participation in the arts,homelessness and higher education.

Ms. Franklin currently holds the William and Camille CosbyProfessorship at Spelman College. She co-chairs the RegionalCommission on Homelessness, is Vice Chair of the Center of Ciand Human Rights and serves on the board of the United NationInstitute For Training and Research. Franklin holds a B.A. fromHoward University and an M.A. in Sociology from the Universitof Pennsylvania.


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Monday 11:30 AM A Conversation With FCC Commissioners

SPEAKERS

Henry M. Rivera



Telecommunications and Information Administration and theWhite House. Rivera has been named among the top 12 telecomexperts in the United States by Legal Media Groups Best of theBest.




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SPEAKERS

Hon. Robert M.McDowell

Commissioner,Federal CommunicationsCommission

Robert M. McDowell wasfirst appointed to a seat onthe Federal CommunicationsCommission by PresidentGeorge W. Bush and

unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 2006. When he was reappointed

to the Commission on June 2, 2009, Commissioner McDowell becamethe first Republican to be appointed to an independent agency byPresident Barack Obama. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senateon June 25, 2009.

During his time at the FCC, Commissioner McDowell has worked tohelp consumers in the communications marketplace enjoy the benefitsof more choices, lower prices and useful innovations, through increasedcompetition. Creating opportunities for the construction of new deliveryplatforms that will bring about such competition has been one of his toppriorities.

Commissioner McDowell brings to the FCC approximately 16 years of

private-sector experience in the communications industry. Immediatelyprior to joining the FCC, he was Senior Vice President for theCompetitive Telecommunications Association (CompTel), an associationrepresenting competitive, facilities-based telecommunications serviceproviders and their supplier partners. There he had responsibilitiesinvolving advocacy efforts before Congress, the White House andexecutive agencies. Prior to joining CompTel in February 1999,McDowell served as the Executive Vice President and General Counselof Americas Carriers Telecommunications Association, which mergedwith CompTel at that time. He has also served on the North AmericanNumbering Council and on the board of directors of North AmericanNumbering Plan Billing and Collection, Inc.

McDowell was graduated cum laude from Duke University in 1985.After serving as chief legislative aide to a member of the Virginia Houof Delegates, he attended the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at theCollege of William and Mary. Upon his graduation from law school,McDowell joined the Washington, DC office of the national law firm oArter & Hadden.

Commissioner McDowells involvement in civic and politicalaffairs spans three decades. He was appointed by VirginiaGovernor George Allen to the Governors Advisory Board fora Safe and Drug-Free Virginia, and to the Virginia Board forContractors, where he served for eight years. A veteran of severapresidential campaigns, his work during the 1992 presidential

campaign is cited in theAlmanac of American Politics, 1994.Among many other endeavors, McDowell has twice been acandidate for the Virginia General Assembly. He is a formerChairman of the Board of the McLean Project for the Arts,which strives to connect emerging artists with communitiesin the Washington, DC region.

McDowell is admitted to practice law before the courts of theCommonwealth of Virginia, the U.S. District Court for theEastern District of Virginia, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for theDistrict of Columbia, First, Fourth and Fifth Circuits and theU.S. Supreme Court. He resides in Fairfax County, VA, on whatis left of the farm where he grew up, with his wife Jennifer and

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SPEAKERS

Hon. MeredithAttwell Baker


Meredith Attwell Bakerwas nominated byPresident Barack Obamaas a member of theFederal Communications

Commission on June 25, 2009 and was sworn in on July 31, 2009.

Ms. Baker most recently served as Acting Administrator andActing Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications andInformation of the National Telecommunications and InformationAdministration (NTIA), which is the Presidents principal advisoron telecommunications and information policy. Baker, who first

joined NTIA as a Senior Advisor in January 2004, was namedDeputy Assistant Secretary in February 2007. She also served asActing Associate Administrator for the Office of InternationalAffairs and was on detail to the Office of Science and TechnologyPolicy at the White House.

At NTIA, Ms. Baker advised and represented the Executive

Branch on both domestic and international telecommunicationsand information policy activities. With a core mission to promotemarket-based policies that encourage innovation and benefitconsumers, NTIA under Ms. Baker pursued the effective andefficient utilization of the radiofrequency spectrum by the federalgovernment through its management of federal spectrum use.It also performed cutting-edge telecommunications researchand engineering, and oversaw the management of the Internetsdomain name and numbering system. Baker also administered thecoupon program to help facilitate the nations historic transitionto digital television. She has served on delegations representingthe United States at major international telecommunicationsconferences and engaged in bilateral discussions with senior levelofficials from countries around the world.

Before joining NTIA, Ms. Baker was Vice President at WilliamsMullen Strategies, where she focused on telecommunications,intellectual property and international trade issues. Earlier, sheheld the positions of Senior Counsel to Covad Communicationsfrom 2000 to 2002 and Director of Congressional Affairs at theCellular Telecommunications Industry Association from 1998 to2000. Ms. Baker worked at the U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth Circuin Houston and later at the law firm of DeLange and Hudspeth,L.L.P. From 1990 to 1992, she worked in the Legislative AffairsOffice of the U.S. Department of State in Washington.

Ms. Baker earned a B.A. degree from Washington & LeeUniversity in 1990 and a law degree from the University of

Houston in 1994. She is a member of the Texas State Bar.Ms. Baker and her husband Jamie reside in McLean, VA.She has four stepdaughters.


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SPEAKERS

Hon. Mignon L.Clyburn


Mignon L. Clyburnwas nominated as amember of the FederalCommunicationsCommission on June 25,

2009 and sworn in on August 3, 2009. Her term runs until

June 30, 2012.

Commissioner Clyburn has a long history of public serviceand dedication to the public interest. Prior to her swearingin as Commissioner, Ms. Clyburn served for 11 years as therepresentative of South Carolinas sixth district on the PublicService Commission of South Carolina (PSC). She was swornin for her first term in July 1998 and was subsequently reelectedin 2002 and 2006. She served as chair of the PSC from July 2002through June 2004.

During her tenure at the PSC, Commissioner Clyburn activelyparticipated in numerous national and regional state-based utility

organizations. Most recently, Ms. Clyburn served as the chair ofthe Washington Action Committee of the National Associationof Regulatory Utility Commissioners and as a member of boththe Associations Audit Committee and Utilities Market AccessPartnership Board. She is also a former chair of the SoutheasternAssociation of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.

Commissioner Clyburn was elected to the South Carolina PSCfollowing 14 years as the publisher and general manager ofThe Coastal Times, a Charleston-based weekly newspaper thatfocused primarily on issues affecting the African-Americancommunity. She owned and operated the family-founded

newspaper following her graduation from the University ofSouth Carolina, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degreein Banking, Finance & Economics.

For well over two decades, Commissioner Clyburn has beenactively involved in a myriad of community organizations.Prior to her appointment at the FCC, she served on the SouthCarolina State Energy Advisory Council, the Trident TechnicalCollege Foundation, the South Carolina Cancer Center Board,the Columbia College Board of Visitors and the PalmettoProject Board (as Secretary/Treasurer). She has enjoyed previouservice as Chair of the YWCA of Greater Charleston and on theboards of Reid House of Christian Service, Edventure ChildrensMuseum, Trident Urban League and the Trident United Way.In addition, Clyburn was previously appointed to the SouthCarolina Education Oversight Committees Common GroundSchool Improvement Committee and the Edventure Museums

South Carolina Great Friend to Kids Committee. She also is a LiMember of the NAACP, and a member of The Links, Inc. and thSC Advisory Council of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Shwas past president of the Charleston County Democratic Womeand Black Women Entrepreneurs.

Commissioner Clyburn has received a number of honors andawards, including being selected as the 2006 James C. BonbrightHonoree (awarded by the Southeastern Energy Conference,Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia). She alsoreceived the 2007 Lincoln C. Jenkins Award for business andcommunity contributions presented by the Columbia (SC)

Urban League.


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Maurita K. ColeyExecutive Director,Capital Area

Asset Builders;Vice Chair, MMTC

Maurita K. Coley joinedCapital Area AssetBuilders (CAAB), anonprofit leader in assetbuilding and financialliteracy programs in

the DC metropolitan area, in March 2010. CAAB assists clientsin achieving their entrepreneurship, home ownership, highereducation and other financial goals. It also advocates on consumereducation policy at the federal and local levels.

Ms. Coley is a former partner with the Davis Wright Tremaineand the Cole, Raywid & Braverman law firms. She is also aprincipal in her own firm, Coley Law & Media, PLLC. In addition,she has served in senior executive roles with the BET Networks.

Coley serves as MMTCs Vice Chair and is actively involved withthe organizations broadband, small business enterprise and accessto capital advocacy efforts. She holds a B.A. from Michigan State

University and a J.D. from Georgetown Law, where she was a 2005recipient of an Outstanding Woman Alumnae award.

Monday 12:30 PM elecommunications Policy Luncheon And Keynote Address

SPEAKERS

Dorrissa Griin

MMTC Law Clerk

Ms. Griffin is currentlyan actively involved third-year law student at FloridaA & M Universitys(FAMU) College ofLaw. Her interests areinternational transactionallaw and corporate law.This summer, she was

appointed President of the FAMU Chapter ofthe Christian Legal Society.

Griffin is the law clerk of MMTC President and ExecutiveDirector David Honig, researching and writing about issues incommunications and civil rights law.

Ms. Griffin serves as Co-Chair of the Student Affairs Committeof FAMUs Student Body Association. Her honors include the2009 FAMU Deans Top Performer Scholarship and the 2008NAACP Agnes Johnson Graduate Scholar. Prior to attending lawschool, she worked with AmeriCorps VISTA at a teen volunteercenter in Pensacola, FL. In 2006, Ms. Griffin graduated from th

University of West Florida with a bachelors degree in BusinessAdministration, with a specialization in Global Marketing. Inher spare time, she creates paintings and photographs; she enjoymusical arts and is an avid Boston Celtics fan.


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Mark F. DeverPartner,Drinker, Biddle& Reath LLP

Mark Dever is a partnerin the Governmentand Regulatory AffairsPractice Group anda member of theTelecommunicationsand Mass Media Team.

He has worked on a variety of communications regulatory andappellate matters. Dever has advised clients of the firm on theirparticipation in the FCCs auctions of new wireless servicespectrum. He has also worked extensively on the development ofthe FCCs competitive bidding regulations.

In connection with his practice, Dever has represented a clientin a number of federal appellate proceedings, treating complexadministrative and constitutional law questions. He has alsoauthored several pleadings addressing communications privacyissues and a broad array of other telecommunications policymatters. Since the enactment of the Telecommunications Actof 1996, he has assisted in the representation of clients in the

arbitration process to implement new local competition directives.

Dever is a member of the American Bar Association and theFederal Communications Bar Association. He graduated summacum laude with a B.A. from Boston College and received his J.D.from Duke Law School, where he served on the Duke Journal ofComparative & International Law.

Whitney MarshallMMTC Law Clerk

Whitney Marshall is arising third-year lawstudent at William andMary Law School. Sinceattending law school,Marshall has become amember of the BusinessLaw Review, Black LawStudent Association,

Sports and Entertainment Law Society, International Law Societand the Institute of the Bill of Rights. Previously, Marshall studieabroad in China at Renmin University Law School. She internedfor the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, ACORN andWFMY News 2. This is her second summer working for MMTC

Ms. Marshall received her undergraduate degree from WakeForest University.


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Cynthia MarshallPresident,

AT&T North Carolina

Since 2007, CynthiaMarshall has beendirectly responsible forAT&T North Carolinasregulatory, legislativeand community affairsactivities, while alsooverseeing the operations

of 8,400 employees. She has nearly 30 years of experience in thetelecommunications industry, joining Pacific Bell in 1981.

Ms. Marshall is active in civic affairs at all levels. Nationally,she serves on the Boards of Governors of the National UtilitiesDiversity Council and of the Joint Center for Political andEconomic Studies. She also serves on the Boards of Trustees ofthe University of North Carolina at Wilmington and of BennettCollege.

Deeply committed to advocacy for children in need of adoptionor who are in foster care placements, Ms. Marshall is a memberof the Board of the North Carolina Childrens Home Society. As

a strong believer in public education, she has led AT&T NorthCarolina in focusing its corporate citizenship activities on dropoutprevention and on becoming the title sponsor of the NorthCarolina Teacher of the Year program.

Marshall has received many awards and honors, including Friendof Education from the North Carolina Association of Educators,the Award of Excellence from the Thurgood Marshall Fund,the Woman of Substance Award from Bennett College and theEagle Award from CareerFOCUS Magazine. She has received theNorth Carolina Exceptional Leader Award from North Carolina

Magazine and been named a Woman Extraordinaire byBusinessLeadermagazine.

Marshall is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley,where she earned degrees in Business Administration and HumanResources Management. She and her husband Kenneth Marshallhave three teenagers.

Jannette L. Dates,Ph.D.

Dean,John H. Johnson Schoolof Communications,Howard University;

Member, MMTCBoard of Directors

Dr. Jannette L. Datesserved as a facultymember and Associate

Dean in the Howard University Department of Radio, Televisionand Film prior to becoming Dean. She has been a frequentspeaker and panelist on top national television and radioprograms on National Public Radio, CNN, C-SPAN and others,where she discusses images of African Americans in the massmedia.

Prior to her career at Howard, Dr. Dates served as anchor andexecutive producer of a weekly television magazine for WBAL-TV and as a panelist for a weekly public affairs show on WJZ-TVboth in Baltimore. In the 1990s, she was a Fellow at the FreedomForum Media Studies Center at Columbia University, whereher research focused on media images and effects, along withthe medias treatment of women, African Americans and othergroups.

Dr. Dates co-edited the book, Split Image: African Americans in Mass Media, authoring six of the ten chapters. She has also writtabout the significance of diversity in media industries and inhigher education. She has written chapters for more than 15 booand authored more than 16 peer-reviewed articles and numerougeneral audience articles.


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Nicol urner-Lee,Ph.D.

Vice Presidentand Director,

Media andTechnology Institute,

Joint Center forPolitical andEconomic Studies;

Member, MMTCBoard of Directors

Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee is the first Director of the Media andTechnology Institute, established in 2008 to study how broadband,the media industry and emerging communications technologiescould become avenues of advancement for people of color.

Dr. Turner-Lee has also been an executive at One Economy,a global nonprofit that uses the power of technology andinformation to expand opportunities for low-income people.She helped to establish broadband connections in thousands ofaffordable housing units and expanded a national technologyservice initiative from 250 to nearly 3,000 youth in less thantwo years.

Before joining One Economy, Dr. Turner-Lee founded theNeighborhood Technology Resource Center, a Chicago-basednonprofit that provides public access to computers and theInternet to thousands of low- and middle-income people. Shehas served as the Board Chair of the Center for EconomicProgress, and is a member of the board for the CommunityRenewal Society. In 2007, Broadband Properties magazinenamed her to its list of the Top 10 National BroadbandPromoters.

Dr. Turner-Lee graduated with honors from Colgate Universityand has a doctorate in Sociology from Northwestern Universityand a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the Universityof Illinois-Chicago.


SPEAKERS

Angela BentonPublisher,BlackWeb2.0and Politic365

Angela Bentonsexperience spans a

variety of industriesand roles in design,marketing, developmentand digital strategy,with an expertise in new

media. She has worked at several InterActive Corp businesses,including RealEstate.com, LendingTree.com, and RushmoreDricom. Additionally, she has held roles at Bizjournals.com, UPS anHomes of Colormagazine.

Ms. Benton is currently the CEO of BlackWebMedia, whosemission is to be a catalyst for innovation and inclusive ideason the Web for African Americans. The company publishesBlackWeb2.0.com, the leading online publication for AfricanAmericans interested in technology and new media.

Benton also speaks on topics such as diversity in the Web andmedia industries, Web trends and strategy, and Web 2.0s effects

on urban media. She also founded and chairs the New MediaEntrepreneurship Conference. Benton is one ofFast Companymagazines Most Influential Women in Technology for 2010and was recently named as one ofEbony magazines Power 150in the Technology and New Media category.Ms. Benton graduated magna cum laude from AmericanInterContinental University with a B.F.A. in Visual Communi-cations. She has also completed postgraduate coursework inGraphic Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design.


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David HonigPresident andExecutive Director,

MMTC

David Honig co-foundedthe Minority Media andTelecommunicationsCouncil (MMTC) in 1986and now serves as itsPresident and ExecutiveDirector. MMTC

currently represents over 70 minority, civil rights and religiousnational organizations in selected proceedings before the FCC. Italso operates the nations only full-service, minority-owned mediaand telecom brokerage.

Honig has practiced communications and civil rights law since1983, specializing in electronic redlining and race discriminationcases. He has taught and written extensively about issues in theintersection between civil rights and international and domesticcommunications. The National Law Journalhas named Honig oneof the 30 most influential communications lawyers.

Honig serves on the National Urban Leagues Technology

Advisory Council and is Chair of the Constitutional IssuesSubcommittee of the FCCs Advisory Committee on Diversityfor Communications in the Digital Age. He holds a B.A. inMathematics from Oberlin College, an M.S. in Systems Analysisfrom the University of Rochester and a law degree cum laude fromGeorgetown University.

Linda VilardoChief AdministrativeOfficer,Radio One, Inc.;

Member, MMTCBoard of Advisors

Ms. Vilardo has beenChief AdministrativeOfficer of Radio Onesince November 2004.She has also been Vice

President of Radio One since February 2001 and the companysAssistant Secretary since April 1999. Up until January 2005, shealso served as General Counsel.

Prior to joining Radio One, Ms. Vilardo represented Radio One outside counsel. She was a partner in the Washington, DC officeof Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. She was previously a shareholderof Roberts & Eckard, P.C., a firm that she co-founded in 1992.

Ms. Vilardo is a graduate of Gettysburg College, the National LaCenter at George Washington University and the University ofGlasgow. She is admitted to the District of Columbia Bar and theBar of the United States Supreme Court.


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Hon. Gloria ristani

Of Counsel,Spiegel & McDiarmidLLP; Member, MMTCBoard of Directors

Among heraccomplishmentsas a former FCCCommissioner (1997-2001), Gloria Tristaniworked to accelerate

broadband deployment to rural and other underserved areas.She was also an advocate for the E-Rate program, which providediscounted Internet access to schools and libraries and served asChair of the FCCs V-Chip Task Force. Ms. Tristani previouslyserved as the president of the Benton Foundation, where sheoversaw the Foundations work in educating policymakers,academics and activists about their stakes in communicationspolicy.

In addition to her federal regulatory commission experience witthe FCC, Tristani also has experience working at the state level.She served for several years on the New Mexico State CorporatioCommission, its first female member. She is a member of the

FCC Consumer Advisory Committee and a Board Member withChildren Now. Ms. Tristani earned a B.A. from Barnard Collegeand her J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law.

Hon. Jonathan S.Adelstein

Administrator,Rural Utilities Service, U.S.Department of Agriculture

Jonathan Adelstein wasnominated by PresidentObama and unanimouslyconfirmed by the U.S.Senate in July 2009 toserve as Administrator

of USDAs Rural Utilities Service. He previously served asCommissioner of the Federal Communications Commissionfrom 2002 to 2009.

A life-long public servant, Adelstein has dedicated his career tofighting for the public interest. As an FCC Commissioner, hesought to secure access to communications for everyone, includingthose left behind by the market. He also fought for media diversityand localism, encouraging increased public access to the airwavesto support a well-informed citizenry.

Adelstein has served as a national leader on combating thenegative effects of excessive commercialization in American

media. He has also been nationally recognized for his efforts topromote family-friendly media and foster digital literacy. Before

joining the FCC, Adelstein served for fifteen years as a staffmember in the United States Senate.

Prior to his service in the Senate, Adelstein was a Teaching Fellowin the Department of History at Harvard University. He receivedan M.A. in History and a B.A. in Political Science from StanfordUniversity. Adelstein currently lives with his wife Karen and twochildren in the Washington, DC area.


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SPEAKERS

Je ValdezFounder,S TV; Co-Chairmanand board member,

Maya Entertainment

Jeff Valdez made historyin 2003 when he launchedS TV, Americas firstEnglish-language, Latino-themed cable network.S TV is currently in

over 20 million households and boasts a lineup of award-winningoriginal programming, much of it created by Valdez. He oversawall operations for the critical first two years of the network andcontinues to serve on its board.

In 2007, Mr. Valdez was named as Co-Chairman of MayaEntertainment, a bilingual film distribution company focusedon the Latino youth market. Also in 2007, he joined forceswith legendary filmmaker David Zucker and started SandboxEntertainment, which is producing a series of G and PG-rated,Latino-themed family movies. In addition to his other roles,Valdez was named as the Chairman of Quepasa Corporation, abilingual social network aimed at the U.S. and Latin American

markets.

Because of his experience in the Latino market, Valdez isvery active as a keynote speaker and panelist for a variety ofconferences, organizations and Fortune 500 companies. CNNnamed Mr. Valdez One Of The Top 50 People Who MatterandAdvertising Age called him one of the Top 50 Marketers inAmerica. He also received the Racial Harmony Award from theCenter For Ethnic Understanding and the Quasar Award from theNational Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications, forhis pioneering efforts in creating S TV.

Mr. Valdez has served on the Advisory Committee on the Artsof the John F. Kennedy Center and as a board member for theMuseum of the Moving Image and for the Los Angeles School forthe Performing Arts. He has been featured in several books andarticles about successful entrepreneurs who were able to achieveheights even without a college education.


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Manny Mirabal

Chair,Hispanic Technologyand TelecommunicationsPartnership

The Hispanic Technologyand TelecommunicationsPartnership (HTTP) isa coalition of nationalHispanic organizationsworking to increase

awareness of the impact of technology and telecommunicationspolicy on the U.S. Hispanic community. Manny Mirabal foundedHTTP and has served as its Chair for 12 years.

Mirabal is President of Policy and Communications at TonioBurgos & Associates, a leading strategic planning and lobbyingfirm. Prior to entering the private sector, he served in senior levelgovernment positions. Mirabal has testified before Congressand the FCC and has worked on federal issues on Capitol Hillfor fifteen years. He has a multifaceted background in nationalpolicy issues and has served as chair of several influential nationalboards, including the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda andthe Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility.

Mr. Mirabal has also served as President of the NationalPuerto Rican Coalition, the leading public policy organizationrepresenting the Puerto Rican community in Washington, DC.

He has been recognized as one of the 100 most influentialHispanics in the U.S. and one of the 25 most influentialHispanics in Washington, DC.

Monday 2:30 PM Broadband And Social Justice Keynote

SPEAKERS

Rey RamseyPresident and CEO,TechNet; Chairman,One EconomyCorporation;


Rey Ramsey is thePresident and CEO ofTechNet, the preeminentbipartisan policy and

political network of executives leading U.S. technology companiTechNet promotes the growth of technology industries and theeconomy by building long-term relationships between technologleaders and policymakers. Ramsey, who assumed his position inJanuary 2010, oversees the organizations day-to-day operations,strategic planning and implementation of TechNets public policand political agenda.

Ramsey is also Co-Founder and Chair of the One EconomyCorporation, which leverages the power of technology andinformation to connect low-income people to the economicmainstream, by bringing broadband into their homes. Thecompany also produces public-purpose media and trains and

employs youth to enhance technological capacity in theircommunities.

Ramsey has been on the forefront of the creation and distributioof public-purpose media, most notably through the foundingof the Public Internet Channel. He has spent years creatinginnovative partnerships between nonprofits, government andthe private sector.

Ramsey served as President and Chief Operating Officer of theEnterprise Foundation. He serves on many boards, including thSchnitzer Investment Corporation, the Local Initiatives SupportCorporation and the Washington Jesuit Academy, where he isVice-Chairman. Ramsey, who holds a bachelors degree in politiscience from Rutgers University, is a graduate of the University oVirginia Law School.


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Monday 3:30 PM From Te Mountaintop: Industry Leaders Address Digital Equality

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Ari Q. Fitzgerald

Partner,Hogan Lovells;Secretary, MMTC

Ari Fitzgeralds practice atHogan Lovells focuses onspectrum policy, wireless,satellite, internationalcommunications andInternet-related issues.He also provides strategic

and legal advice on a wide range of telecommunications andspectrum-related issues. Fitzgerald is a Director and Secretary ofMMTC and a member of its Policy Committee.

Fitzgerald joined what was then Hogan & Hartson from the FCC,where he served as legal advisor to former Chairman WilliamKennard. In that position, he advised the Chairman on wireless,international and spectrum policy issues. Fitzgerald later servedas deputy chief of the FCCs International Bureau, overseeing thedevelopment of policies on international telecommunications,foreign ownership, satellite services, spectrum allocation andpromotion of the Internet.

Prior to working at the FCC, Fitzgerald was in the U.S.Department of Justice, counseling the White House and federalgovernment agencies on constitutional and administrative lawmatters. He serves on the Boards of Directors of Crown CastleInternational and the Duke Ellington Fund, which secures privatefinancial support for a public high school for the performing arts.He also serves on the advisory boards of Spectrum Bridge, MobileFuture and incNetworks.

Fitzgerald received his B.A. from Harvard College and his J.D.from Yale Law School.

Dean C. GarieldPresident and CEO,Information TechnologyIndustry Council

Dean C. Garfield waselected President andCEO of the InformationTechnology IndustryCouncil in October2008. As the premier

voice, advocate and

thought leader for the information and communications (ICT)sector, Garfield regards innovation as the key driver for the privasector becoming more prominent in spurring sustainable jobgrowth in the United States.

Garfield has also served as Executive Vice President and ChiefStrategic Officer for the Motion Picture Association of AmericaBefore that, Garfield was Vice President of Legal Affairs at theRecording Industry Association of America.

As one of the nations preeminent leaders in promoting innovatiand education as the keys to American global competitiveness,Garfield was awarded with the first REACH Breaking Barriers

Award in May 2010. He is a regular contributor on the HuffingtoPostand has been featured in several national and Beltwaypublications representing the ICT industry.

Garfield received a joint degree from New York University Schoof Law and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Administratioand International Affairs at Princeton University. He lives inWashington, DC with his wife and two children.

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W B.MCk, J.

President and CEO,United States Telecom

Association

A respected Washingtonveteran with more than25 years of experiencein telecommunications,Walter B. McCormick,Jr. is the head of the

nations premier broadband trade association representingservice providers and suppliers in the new telecommunicationsmarketplace. He has guided the evolution of the United StatesTelecom Association (USTelecom) into one of the top tradeassociations in the nations capital. Washingtonian magazine hasprofiled him as a trade association executive with real clout.

Prior to joining USTelecom, McCormick served as President &CEO of the American Trucking Associations. His backgroundalso includes service as General Counsel to both the U.S.Department of Transportation and the Senate Committee onCommerce, Science and Transportation.

McCormick is a member of the Presidents National SecurityTelecommunications Advisory Committee, the Board of Trusteesof Rockhurst University and the Federal Communications BarAssociation.

McCormick holds degrees in journalism and law from theUniversity of Missouri. He has studied international economicsand political science at Georgetown University and has completedthe program for senior managers in government at HarvardUniversitys John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Kyle E. McSlarrowPresident and CEO,National Cable &Telecommunications

Association (NCTA)

Kyle McSlarrow hasbeen the cable industrysprimary public policyadvocate in Washington,DC since 2005. Herepresents the industrys

interests before Congress, the FCC and the White House.

In 2007, McSlarrow was appointed to serve on the PresidentsNational Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee,which informs and advises the President on telecommunicationissues affecting national security and emergency preparedness.

Prior to joining NCTA, McSlarrow served as Deputy Secretaryof the U.S. Department of Energy, supervising a diverse portfolithat included the development of advanced technology tostrengthen the nations energy and homeland security. He has henumerous positions in the political arena, including serving as tNational Chairman for the Quayle 2000 Presidential Campaign

and as Chief of Staff to the late U.S. Senator Paul Coverdell.

Before moving to Capitol Hill in 1995, McSlarrow was an associwith the Washington, DC law firm of Hunton & Williams. Heearned degrees from Cornell University and the University ofVirginia School of Law. McSlarrow, his wife Alison and theirchildren live in Fairfax County, VA.

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Hon. Gordon H.Smith

President and CEO,National Associationof Broadcasters

Gordon Smith joined theNational Association ofBroadcasters (NAB) inNovember 2009. Prior to

joining NAB, he served asa two-term U.S. Senator

from Oregon and later as a senior advisor in the Washington, DCoffices of Covington & Burling, LLP.

During his tenure in the U.S. Senate, Smiths committeeassignments included the Senate Commerce, Science andTransportation Committee, the panel that oversees all broadcast-related legislation. He also served on the Senate Energy andNatural Resources Committee, the Senate Finance Committeeand the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Smiths role onthe Commerce Committee and as Chairman of a Senate HighTech Task Force helped foster his interest in new media and newtechnology issues.

Smith attended Brigham Young University, received his law degreefrom Southwestern University School of Law, and practiced law inNew Mexico and Arizona before returning to Oregon to direct thefamily-owned Smith Frozen Foods. Before his election to the U.S.Senate in 1996, he rose to the position of President of the OregonState Senate. Smith and his wife Sharon live in Bethesda, MD; theyhave two children and one grandchild.

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Monday 5:30 PM Tirteenth Annual MMC Hall O Fame Reception

SPEAKERS

Henry M. Rivera



Telecommunications and Information Administration and theWhite House. Rivera has been named among the top 12 telecomexperts in the United States by Legal Media Groups Best ofthe Best.




Hon. Michael J.Copps


Michael J. Copps wasnominated for a secondterm as a member of theFederal CommunicationsCommission on November9, 2005 and was sworn in on January 3, 2006. His term runs unti

June 30, 2010. He was sworn in for his first term on May 31, 200

Mr. Copps served from 1998 until January 2001 as AssistantSecretary of Commerce for Trade Development at the U.S.Department of Commerce. In that role, he worked to improvemarket access and market share for nearly every sector ofAmerican industry, including information technologies andtelecommunications. Copps devoted much of his time to buildinprivate-sector/public-sector partnerships to enhance our nationsuccess in the global economy. From 1993 to 1998, he served asDeputy Assistant Secretary for Basic Industries, a component ofthe Trade Development Unit.

Mr. Copps moved to Washington in 1970, joined the staff ofSenator Fritz Hollings (D-SC) and served for more than a dozenyears as Administrative Assistant and Chief of Staff. From 1985 1989, he served as Director of Government Affairs for a Fortune500 company. From 1989 to 1993, he was Senior Vice President fLegislative Affairs at a major national trade association.

Copps, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, received a B.A. fromWofford College and earned a Ph.D. in United States History frothe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He taught U.S.History at Loyola University of the South from 1967 to 1970. Heand his wife Beth have five children and five grandchildren.

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HALL OF FAME AWARDS

Angela BentonPublisher,BlackWeb2.0and Politic365

Angela Bentonsexperience spans a varietyof industries and rolesin design, marketing,development anddigital strategy, with anexpertise in new media.

She has worked at several InterActive Corp businesses, includingRealEstate.com, LendingTree.com, and RushmoreDrive.com.Additionally, she has held roles at Bizjournals.com, UPS andHomes of Colormagazine.

Ms. Benton is currently the CEO of BlackWebMedia, whosemission is to be a catalyst for innovation and inclusive ideason the Web for African Americans. The company publishesBlackWeb2.0.com, the leading online publication for AfricanAmericans interested in technology and new media.

Benton also speaks on topics such as diversity in the Web andmedia industries, Web trends and strategy, and Web 2.0s effects

on urban media. She also founded and chairs the New MediaEntrepreneurship Conference. Benton is one ofFast Companymagazines Most Influential Women in Technology for 2010and was recently named as one ofEbony magazines Power 150in the Technology and New Media category.Ms. Benton graduated magna cum laude from AmericanInterContinental University with a B.F.A. in Visual Communi-cations. She has also completed postgraduate coursework inGraphic Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Kristal HighPresident,

Media Foundation Group

Kristal High is thePresident of MediaFoundation Group, aproduction and designfirm specializing inmultimedia production,identity systems and newmedia consultations.

She is also the Founder of Pocketbook Protest, a digitally-based advocacy organization that uses technology to empowerminorities to strategically leverage their collective economicpower.

Prior to joining Media Foundation Group, High was an attorneyin the Labor & Employment Group of LeClair Ryan, whereher practice primarily focused on employment and businesslitigation. She has also served on the Boards of Directors for theAfrican American Repertory Theater and the Elegba FolkloreSociety, a performing arts organization focused on engagingminority communities through innovative encounters withtheatre, song and dance.

High obtained her B.A. from Davidson College, with a major inTheatre and a concentration in Ethnic Studies. She obtained herJ.D. from Washington & Lee School of Law, where she foundedand served as President of the Media Law Students Association.


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HALL OF FAME AWARDS

Rey RamseyPresident and CEO,TechNet; Chairman,One EconomyCorporation;


Rey Ramsey is thePresident and CEO ofTechNet, the preeminentbipartisan policy and

political network of executives leading U.S. technology companies.TechNet promotes the growth of technology industries and theeconomy by building long-term relationships between technologyleaders and policymakers. Ramsey, who assumed his position inJanuary 2010, oversees the organizations day-to-day operations,strategic planning and implementation of TechNets public policyand political agenda.

Ramsey is also Co-Founder and Chair of the One EconomyCorporation, which leverages the power of technology andinformation to connect low-income people to the economicmainstream, by bringing broadband into their homes. Thecompany also produces public-purpose media and trains and

employs youth to enhance technological capacity in theircommunities.

Ramsey has been on the forefront of the creation and distributionof public-purpose media, most notably through the foundingof the Public Internet Channel. He has spent years creatinginnovative partnerships between nonprofits, government andthe private sector.

Ramsey served as President and Chief Operating Officer of theEnterprise Foundation. He serves on many boards, including theSchnitzer Investment Corporation, the Local Initiatives SupportCorporation and the Washington Jesuit Academy, where he isVice-Chairman. Ramsey, who holds a bachelors degree in politicalscience from Rutgers University, is a graduate of the University ofVirginia Law School.

Joycelyn F. James

Cathy Hughes Fellow,MMTC

As MMTCs Cathy HughesFellow, Joycelyn Jamesfocuses on rules andpolicies that impact theadvancement of minorityentrepreneurship inthe nations media andtelecommunications industries. James is admitted to the bar in

Maryland and holds memberships in the Federal CommunicatioBar Association and the Greater Washington Area Chapter,Women Lawyers Division of the National Bar Association.

James is a graduate of the Catholic University of AmericaColumbus School of Law, where she obtained a certificate fromthe Institute for Communications Law Studies. While in lawschool, she interned at the Federal Communications Commissioand the National Telecommunications and InformationAdministration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Prior toher legal education, she graduated from Howard University witha B.A. in Communications, concentrating in Radio, Televisionand Film.


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Patrick Gusman

Executive Director,TechNetWorks

Patrick Gusman is theExecutive Director ofTechNetWorks, the newlycreated, nonprofit arm ofTechNet, the bipartisan,political network of CEOsand senior executives that

promotes the growth of technology and the innovation economy.

TechNetWorks serves as a link between the innovation sector andthe government and nonprofit sectors; it will harness innovationand technology to help solve real problems facing our nation.

Prior to his appointment at TechNetWorks, Mr. Gusman wasthe Senior Vice President of Innovation and Chief InnovationOfficer at the National Urban League. He created and managedthe organizations social media initiatives, steered strategicplanning and directed its Information Technology Services. Hisspecial focus was on ensuring that communities of color havethe full opportunity to benefit from the new green economy andbroadband technology.

Before his entry into the nonprofit sector, Gusman had a longinternational career in the auto industry. His roles includedManaging Director of Chrysler Financial France and ProjectManager for a series of regional and global initiatives within theDaimlerChrysler Group. Gusman has a J.D. from GeorgetownUniversity Law Center and a Bachelor of Business Administrationdegree in Finance and French from the University of Notre Dame.

SPEAKERS

Monday 8:15 PM Colloquium: Building A National Movement O Minority Digital Entrepreneurs


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Joseph S. Miller

Policy Counsel,Media and TechnologyInstitute, Joint Center forPolitical and EconomicStudies

Mr. Miller focuses ontelecommunications,Internet and media at theJoint Centers Media andTechnology Institute. Prior

to becoming a lawyer, he worked in advertising sales, productionand music research at New York City radio stations, including thelegendary WQXR-FM. Upon obtaining his J.D., he worked at

CBS-TV in New York, then went to work for Pace University,where he served as the Assistant Director of Paces businessincubator program for early-stage companies located in New YorkEconomic Development Zones.

Miller served as the Earle K. Moore Fellow at MMTC from 2008to 2010. He earned a B.S. in Mass Communications from the StateUniversity of New York at Plattsburgh. While attending New YorkLaw School, he edited its Media Law & Policy journal. He servedas a Law Student Associate at Sun Microsystems. Mr. Miller is a

trained musician who attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia HighSchool for Music and Art and the Performing Arts. He lives innorthern Virginia with his wife and daughter.

Kristal HighPresident,

Media Foundation Group

Kristal High is thePresident of MediaFoundation Group, aproduction and designfirm specializing inmultimedia production,identity systems and newmedia consultations.

She is also the Founder of Pocketbook Protest, a digitally-based advocacy organization that uses technology to empowerminorities to strategically leverage their collective economicpower.

Prior to joining Media Foundation Group, High was an attorneyin the Labor & Employment Group of LeClair Ryan, whereher practice primarily focused on employment and businesslitigation. She has also served on the Boards of Directors for theAfrican American Repertory Theater and the Elegba FolkloreSociety, a performing arts organization focused on engagingminority communities through innovative encounters withtheatre, song and dance.

High obtained her B.A. from Davidson College, with a major inTheatre and a concentration in Ethnic Studies. She obtained herJ.D. from Washington & Lee School of Law, where she foundedand served as President of the Media Law Students Association.

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Hon. Bobby L. RushU.S. Representative

U.S. RepresentativeBobby L. Rush is a seniormember of the Illinoisdelegation, where herepresents the statesfirst Congressionaldistrict. He is a seniormember of the powerfulEnergy and Commerce

Committee and is in his second two-year term as Chairman of itsSubcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.

In addition to effectively shepherding the bipartisan adoptionof the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008,Rush also played a leading role in helping to craft historic healthinsurance reform legislation in Congress. With respect to trade,Congressman Rush is identifying new international marketsto help expand Americas trade interests throughout the world,including trade with the continent of Africa. He launched theAfrican Partnership for Economic Growth Caucus, whose primarymission is to strengthen U.S. relations with Sub-Saharan Africa bypromoting growth and economic development.

During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, CongressmanRush worked to secure basic civil and human rights for AfricanAmericans, women and other minorities. He was a member ofthe Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and was a co-founder of the Illinois Black Panther Party. Prior to his electionto Congress, Rush was an Alderman in the Chicago City Council,representing the 2nd Ward on Chicagos South Side. He helpedpass significant environmental protection, gun control andneighborhood development legislation.

Congressman Rush, an ordained Baptist minister, received abachelors degree in general studies, with honors, from Roosevelt

University in Chicago. He received a masters degree in PoliticalScience from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a mastersdegree in Theological Studies from McCormick Seminary. Rushhas received honorary doctorate degrees from Virginia Universityof Lynchburg and Roosevelt University. He is the pastor of BelovedCommunity Christian Church and has been married to hiswife Carolyn for 26 years.

Mark R. Fratrik,Ph.D.Vice President,BIA Financial Network

Mark Fratrik supervisesthe maintenance of themany BIAfn databasesand conducts primaryresearch on varioustrends as they affect thebroadcasting and related

communications industries. He also conducts research andanalysis for clients on broadcasting and communications relatedmatters. He is the author of BIAfns acclaimed State of the Radioand Television Industry studies.

Prior to joining BIAfn, Dr. Fratrik was a Vice President/Economwith the National Association of Broadcasters for nearly 16years. While there, he conducted primary research and wroteseveral books about the broadcasting and related industries.Before joining the NAB, Fratrik worked for the Federal TradeCommission in the Bureau of Economics, conducting analysesof industry practices to evaluate their overall economic impact.

Dr. Fratrik received his B.A. in Mathematics and Economicsfrom the State University of New York at Binghamton and hismasters and doctoral degrees in Economics from Texas A&M.He is currently an adjunct professor of economics at JohnsHopkins University.



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Anita StephensGraham

General Partner,Opportunity CapitalPartners

Ms. Graham has more than20 years of experience atmanagement levels in theprivate equity and bankingindustries, including at

Opportunity Capital Partners (OCP), a private equity firm with

$135 million of capital under management. OCP focuses onproviding later-stage growth equity to companies primarily in thetelecommunications, media, industrial services and healthcareindustries.

Ms. Graham has made direct investments in an array of sectors,leading transactions that total more than $60 million. Thesesectors include wireless broadband services, fixed wirelesssystems, publishing systems and services, multimedia contentproviders, enterprise software, radio and television broadcastingand medical devices. Prior to joining OCP, Graham served asthe President of Renaissance Capital Corporation, a specializedinvestment company that provided equity to small, middle-market

companies.

Graham currently serves on the FCC Advisory Committee onDiversity for Communications in the Digital Age. She also servesas the Chairman of the National Association of InvestmentCompanies and is on the Advisory Board of Pacific CommunityVentures, a fund that targets underserved markets, primarilyin California. Graham has a B.A. in Economics from CornellUniversity and an Executive M.B.A. from Golden Gate University.

Navarrow Wright

President,Maximum LeverageSolutions

Navarrow Wright isPresident and CEO ofMaximum LeverageSolutions, a consulting firmthat focuses on Internetand social media strategies,along with technology

development. In 2007, Wright partnered with hip-hop mogulRussell Simmons and Accel Partners to create Global Grind, asocial-media site catering to an urban, hip-hop audience.

Before founding Global Grind, Wright was Senior V.P. ofTechnology for Digitas Health. Prior to that, he served as ChiefTechnology Officer of Viacoms BET Interactive, creating andimplementing new technologies that made BET.com the leadingonline entertainment destination for African Americans.

With more than 17 years of experience in the technology andmedia industry, Wright has established himself as one of thepremier technology experts in Internet and media. He was picke

byThe Network Journalmagazine as one of the 40 Under 40professionals to watch in 2009. Wright blogs about technologyand entrepreneurship on his own blog, on BlackWeb2.0 andon the Huffington Post. You can follow him on Twitter under @navarrowwright. Wright holds a B.S. degree in Computer Sciencfrom Rider University.



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uesday 9:30 AM Creating, Financing And Building A Startup Company

Erwin G. Krasnow

Partner,Garvey Schubert Barer;Vice Chair, MMTC

Erwin

Documents

MMTC Access to Capital 2010 ConfBook