Conrad Burns
United States Senator, Honorary Chairman

Conrad Burns became Montana's 19th United States Senator on January 2, 1989. He also became the first Republican in the history of Montana to be elected to a second term in November 1994. Since his election, Sen. Burns has five key committee assignments: Appropriations; Commerce, Science and Transportation; Energy and Natural Resources; Small Business; and Aging. Sen. Burns is a key member on communications issues on the Senate Commerce Committee and in the past served as Chairman of the Communications Subcommittee of the Commerce Committee. Additionally, Sen. Burns is the Senate co-chairman of the Congressional Internet Caucus.

Bill Anaya
Motorola

Bill Anaya is Vice President, Congressional Operations for Motorola, a world leader in technology solutions. Mr. Anaya is principally responsible for Capitol Hill strategy and policy development as well as advocating before Executive agencies on communications, technology, and international competitiveness issues. These issues include spectrum management, homeland security communications, advanced commercial wireless services, broadband deployment, the digital television transition, and an array of trade matters.

While with Motorola, Mr. Anaya has served as a member of the United States Delegation to the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union in Geneva to negotiate global Internet telephony resolutions. Prior to joining Motorola, he was an advisor to Congressman John Dingell, the Ranking Member of the U. S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Mr. Anaya graduated in 1997 from the University of Notre Dame Law School and earned a BA from the University of Michigan in 1993. He is a member of the State of Michigan and the District of Columbia Bars. He, his wife, Erica, their son, William Leo, and daughter, Laura Maria, reside in Alexandria, Virginia.

Brian D. Dailey
Lockheed Martin Corporation

Brian Dailey is senior vice president, Lockheed Martin Washington Operations. He directs the Corporation’s liaison with Congress, the Pentagon, the executive branch, federal government offices and agencies in the Washington, D.C. area, and state and local governments. He also chairs the Corporation’s Employee Political Action Committee. Dr. Dailey has previously served as chief operating officer of Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications; vice president, business development for Lockheed Martin Space & Strategic Missiles Sector; and director of commercial programs for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Company, Sunnyvale, California.

Dr. Dailey came to Lockheed Martin from the White House, where he was executive secretary of the National Space Council. In that capacity, he was responsible for formulating and coordinating U.S. civil, commercial, and national security space policy. Prior to his appointment to this position by President George Bush, he served as senior professional staff member at the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Dr. Dailey is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where he earned a Ph.D. in International Relations.

Frank W. Dillow
Verizon

Frank Dillow is Vice President for Goverment Relations for Verizon. He represents telecommunications interests, both wireline and wireless, before Congress. Prior to it's merger with Verizon, Mr Dillow served as assistant Vice President - Congressional Affairs for GTE Corporation. Previously he served as Director - Government Affairs for GTE Northwest, where he represented GTE before the state legislatures and Congressional delegations for the Northwest states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. Prior to joining GTE, Mr. Dillow served as an Assistant Commissioner with the Oregon Public Utility Commissioner's Office and as a newspaper reporter with the Portland Oregonian.

Larry Duncan
Lockheed Martin Corporation

Larry Duncan is Vice President, Congressional Relations, Trade and Regulatory Affairs, Lockheed Martin Washington Operations. He is responsible for the development and implementation of strategies to address international trade, homeland security liability, licensing, spectrum, regulatory issues, satellite and communications policy, export controls, space transportation and other business matters before Congress and the Administration key to the achievement of corporate-wide objectives. During his tenure, Mr. Duncan has secured provisions in the Homeland Security Act to limit the potential liability exposure of sellers of anti-terrorism technology.

Before joining the company in April 2002, Mr. Duncan practiced law in Washington, DC for several years and provided legislative and regulatory counsel to many Fortune 500 companies and business organizations. Prior to the practice of law, he worked as a member of the Senate floor staff under the Secretary of the U.S. Senate. Mr. Duncan received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia Law School.

Klein Gilhousen
Member at Large

Klein Gilhousen is a co-founder and Senior Vice President for Technology of QUALCOMM, Inc., where he oversees Systems Engineering for all of QUALCOMM's programs. He has invented a novel approach to increase the capacity of spread-spectrurn code division multiple access (CDMA) techniques for application to both cellular telephone and mobile satellite communications. Mr. Gilhousen is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the Society for Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE).

Mike Kennedy
Motorola

Mike Kennedy is Senior Vice President & Director, Global Government Relations at Motorola. He has been engaged in international policy and regulatory issues in the high-tech space since the beginning of the deployment of the cellular phone. Presently, Mr. Kennedy directs the Corporation’s work with the US Congress, the White House, and Federal agencies in DC, and state and local governments domestically as well as all levels of government around the world. He previously established the company’s first government relations post outside the United States in Brussels. Before joining Motorola, he served as a senior staff member at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Mr. Kennedy serves on the Telecom Board of the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union. He is Chairman of the Board Emeritus of the Telecommunications Industry Association and Vice Chairman of the Board of the Electronic Industries Alliance. Kennedy is on the Board of Advisors of the European Institute, and he co-chairs its Roundtable on Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce. He also serves on the Board of the Business Council of International Understanding, which fosters dialogue between the private sector and US and foreign government officials.

Mr. Kennedy earned his BSEE from the University of Maryland and has done advanced engineering graduate work at the George Washington University.

Rick Hays
Qwest

Rick Hays has been the Montana president for Qwest Communications since August 1996 and is responsible for operational oversight and integrating marketing, operations, regulatory and legislative strategies in Montana. He has worked in the telecommunications industry for nearly 30 years. Prior to his present assignment, he had a variety of other positions in Idaho, Arizona and Colorado. Mr. Hays is involved in several Boards of Directors in Montana, including the Burns Technology Center (where he serves as Vice-Chairman), the Tech Ranch in Bozeman, the Executive Committee of the Board of the Montana Taxpayers Association and the Executive Board of the University of Montana-Helena College of Technology. He also serves on the President’s Advisory Council at Montana State University.

Jack Krumholtz
Microsoft

Jack Krumholtz is a Director of Federal Government Affairs and Associate General Counsel in the Law and Corporate Affairs Department at Microsoft in Washington, D.C. He is responsible for managing the Company's government and industry affairs at the federal level. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Krumholtz was an associate attorney with the law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson, and Hand in Washington, D.C., where he practiced in the legislative and government relations area. He is the author of "The United States Customs Service's Approach to the Gray Market: Does It Infringe on the Purposes of Trademark Protection?," 8 J. Comp. Bus. & Cap. Market L. 1010 (1985). Mr. Krumholtz is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland. He is a member of the bar of the United State of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the American and District of Columbia Bar Associations. He participates in the following professional organizations: Business Software Alliance, the Information Technology Association of America, the Interactive Services Association and the Internet Alliance. He is the Vice-Chairman of the Microsoft Political Action Committee and also serves on the Advisory Council to the Congressional Internet Caucus.

Jessica Marventano
Clear Channel

Jessica Marventano is Senior Vice President for Government Affairs in Clear Channel's Washington office and responsible for managing the company's government affairs in the U.S. Senate. Before coming to Clear Channel she served as Senior Director/Policy Counsel of Comcast Corporation. Prior to joining Comcast in July 2003, she served as Majority Counsel for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, where she was chief advisor on all broadcast, cable and satellite policy issues.

Lisa B. Nelson
Visa USA

Lisa Nelson serves as senior VP and director of government relations for Visa USA. Nelson is the former Executive Director of the National Review Institute, a non-profit 501(c)(3), whose work parallels the editorial mission of the National Review magazine by developing new ideas on educational, environmental, cultural, and economic topics. From November 1993 through September 1997, Ms. Nelson served as Executive Director of GOPAC, the Education and Training Center for the 21st Century. She managed the delivery of national campaign themes through in-state seminars, teletraining programs, an audiocassette lecture series, video-course productions, and a direct mail program. Before coming to Visa USA, Ms. Nelson was Vice President of External Relations for Time Warner.

B. Robert Okun
NBC

Bob Okun joined NBC in February 1995 as Vice President, NBC Washington. As head of NBC's Washington office, his responsibilities include coordinating the development of NBC's policy positions on legislative and regulatory issues and representing NBC's positions to the Congress, the Administration and the FCC. Mr. Okun has served as Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs at the U.S. Department of Education (1991 -1992), and was most recently the Floor Assistant to former House Republican Leader, Robert Michel.

Sean C. Rush
IBM

Sean Rush is IBM's General Manager, Global Education Industry. His responsibilities include the sales, consulting and solution development teams dedicated to education issue. Prior to joining IBM in 1994, he was Chairman of the Higher Education and Nonprofit practice at Coopers-Lybrand, L.L.P., which was responsible for more than 2,000 clients throughout the United States. He concurrently served as managing partner of the firm's higher education consulting practice, providing financial, operational and technology services to a broad range of clients.

Randale Sechrest, M.D.
Member at Large

Randale Sechrest is a practicing orthopedic surgeon and is also the CEO of Medical Multimedia Group, LLC (MMG) located in Missoula, MT. The company specializes in developing healthcare applications for hospitals and physician groups practices an the burgeoning marketplace of the world wide web. In addition to his surgical practice, Dr. Sechrest has been active in the area of telecommunications and computers for the past 10 years. He has served as a project consultant to the Virtual Medical Center project at MSU and has been active in promoting improvements in all aspects of the telecommunications infrastructure of Montana. He is a founding member of the Kootenet Project in Lincoln County, which created a public/private cooperative for providing low-cost Internet connectivity to the citizens of Lincoln County and the establishment of a "virtual community" for promotion of economic development in the county.

Charlie Shipp
Member at Large

Charlie Shipp is President of Charles Shipp & Associates. Amoung his clients is AT&T. He is responsible for leading AT&T´s federal advocacy and legislative initiatives before Congress, which includes all of Montana´s federal congressional delegation. He joined AT&T with Southwestern Bell in 1972. From 1989 to 1991, he served as a White House Loaned Executive. His assignment in the Bush Administration was Special Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture where he managed the office of Information Resource Management.

Cindy Taylor
Member at Large

Cindy Taylor is the first woman to sell computers for IBM in the South. While at IBM she served as national division head for the company's health care business sector, started the IBM reseller channel and managed the channel in the Southwest, and taught in IBM sales training. She joined Ingres Corporation and ran the OEM sales effort. Ms. Taylor was the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for 2 Silicon Valley startups, and then retired as the General Manager of the New Media division at Oracle Corporation, a $10 billion software company specializing in Networked Computing. In 1998 she launched The Improved Performance Group, a consultancy specializing in improving a company's revenue or margins by directly improving the performance of the sales force. Ms. Taylor joined RightNow Technologies in 1998 as an Advisory Board member and was later recruited as Vice President of Alliances. RightNow Technologies is a leading provider of Web-based customer service solutions for the Internet and Intranet environments.