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Brian Allenby Director of State Solutions CostQuest Associates Vince Aragona CEO Neo Network Development Navid Ariaban Managing Director FTI Consulting Gopal Atmakuru Quality Engineering Manager Amazon Web Services (AWS) Berge Ayvazian Senior Industry Analyst and Consultant Wireless 20/20 Egest Balla Analyst, Wire & Cable CRU Group MJ Barton Tribal Affairs & Strategic Growth Trans-Tel Central, LLC Eric Bathras Chief Technology Officer Maryland Department of Information Technology Angela Bennink General Manager Kitsap Public Utility District Koby Biran CEO Xtream Communications, LLC Scott Blorstad Sr. Project Manager HITT Contracting Elizabeth Bowles CEO Aristotle Unified Communications Robert Boyle CEO & Founder Planet Networks Mike Brigman CEO Bridged Broadband Butch Brock CSO Dragonfly Internet David Bronston Special Counsel Phillips Lytle Ken Budd CEO 702 Communications, Aurora Fiber Optic Networks Paul Charles Founder & CEO Full Stack Data Centers Rick Cimerman Vice President - External & State Affairs Lead NCTA -The Internet & Television Association Justin Colwell EVP, Technology Strategy & Innovation Charter Communications Steve Coran Attorney Lerman Senter PLLC Elizabeth Coyne Editor-in-Chief Fierce Network Gene Crusie CEO Surf Internet Craig Culwell Director of Sales, North America Broadband CommScope, an Amphenol company. Sarah Davis Vice President, Market Development Fidium Brandon Dinsmore Founder & Executive Director NDN Development Group Jeff Erwin COO UTOPIA Fiber Bob Faber Senior ICT Consultant Salas O'Brien Josh Forman Co-Chair, Digital Infrastructure Practice Greenberg Traurig Ken Frankel VP of Sales F-Secure Eric Frederick Chief Connectivity Officer Michigan High-Speed Internet Office Jeff Freyer Senior Vice President Grain Management Leo Garcia Assistant Deputy Secretary, Division of Community Development FloridaCommerce Heather Gate Executive Vice President, Digital Inclusion Connected Nation Bobbie Gilbert Chief Government Affairs Officer Ripple Fiber Robert Griffin Broadband Director Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Sachin Gupta Vice President Centranet Ronnie Hammond Director, Office of Statewide Broadband Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Caleb Henry Director of Research Quilty Space Brian Horton Senior Director Head of Wireless Business CCI Systems Glen Howie State Broadband Director Arkansas Economic Development Commission Veneeth Iyengar Executive Director Connect LA Alan Jones CNO C Spire Anitha Kapu Director of Engineering (Manufacturing & Quality) Crusoe Anis Khemakhem Chief Commercial Officer Clearfield Bob Knight Commissioner, Economic & Community Development Town of Ridgefield, Connecticut Jeff Kohler Co-Founder Rise Broadband Bob Kolasky SVP, Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Exiger Catherine Krantz Area Director for Broadband Communities Unlimited Chad Kymal CTO & Founder Omnex Spencer Laney Director of Deployment TWN Communications Matt Larsen Owner and CEO Vistabeam Jaimie Lenderman Practice Leader Omdia Sam Love Chief Policy & Strategy Officer NCTA Mike Lubin Senior Advisor and VP ViaSat Bree Maki Executive Director Office of Broadband Development - Minnesota Kimberly Maki CEO Influential Voices, LLC Ravi Teja Reddy Mandala Senior Site Reliability Engineer Oracle Sue Marek editorial director ookla Carol Mattey Principal Mattey Consulting LLC Kimberly McKinley Chief of Staff TAK Broadband Allyson Mitchell General Manager Mohawk Networks, LLC Jason Mittler Manager, FPUAnet Fort Pierce Utilities Authority Matt Myers Chief Operations Officer All West Fiber Melissa Newman SVP, Government Affairs TIA Sam Pavlick Sales Manager Actifai Mark Pearson Broadband Interstate Coordinator Communities Unlimited Jessica Pittard President, CEO BDI Datalynk Matthew Plaster Senior Advisor for Strategy NTIA Govind Ramu Senior Technical Program Manager for AI infrastructure quality Google Brad Randall Editor Total Telecom Donald Ray Chief Development Officer BAM Broadband Phil Read Senior Director of Global Colocation Product Management Equinix Mike Regan VP, Business Performance TIA Martin Renkis Executive Director, Data Center Infrastructure Johnson Controls Peter Robins-Brown Assistant to the President Louisiana AFL-CIO John Rodrigues VP, Real Estate & Facilities NTT Global Data Centers Americas Stephen Rose CEO Render Networks Paroma Sanyal Principal The Brattle Group Jeff Shafer AVP of Converged Networking AT&T Carla Shearer CEO & General Manager SCTelecom Angela Siefer Executive Director National Digital Inclusion Alliance Stacey Slaughter President & CEO NCTI Parker Slaybaugh VP LINK Public Affairs Gigi Sohn Executive Director American Association of Public Broadband Jennifer Stepniowski Global Customer Excellence and Quality Johnson Controls Tom Stroup President Satellite Industry Association Bill Stueber Partner Telecom Partners Group Russell Thorneycroft VP of Quality, Americas Eaton Roger Timmerman CEO UTOPIA Fiber Garrett Touchet Analyst and Director Recon Analytics Gino Tozzi Global Head of Data Center Infrastructure Quality Google Thomas Tyler Co-Founder C207 Partners Kevin Uyeno Vice President, Chief of Staff Pivot-Tech Development, Inc Drew Van Dopp CEO Maryland Broadband Cooperative Kyriakos Vergos CWO Intracom Telecom USA David Waite Principal Fifty Elm Mark Walker VP, Technology Policy CableLabs Rob Ward SVP, Global Network Engineering Lumen Technologies Joseph Wender Executive Director SHLB Coalition Kenny Williams District 9 Staff Representative Communications Workers of America (CWA) John Windhausen Principal Telepoly Warren Woodward Director of Broadband Services XMission Internet Michelle Yirka SVP Business Development Chisholm Broadband David Zumwalt President & CEO WISPA
