Maria Cino is vice president for Americas, responsible for managing HP’s relationships with governments and political stakeholders in Washington, D.C. and throughout the Americas. She also oversees HP’s U.S. political programs, including the HP political action committee. Read more »

Bernard F. McKay is Intuit’s Chief Public Policy Officer and Vice President for Global Corporate Affairs. In this role, Bernie is Intuit’s senior officer responsible for government affairs, industry relations, global public policy and corporate philanthropy. Read more »

Economist Jeffrey Eisenach has served in senior positions at the Federal Trade Commission and the Office of Management and Budget. As a visiting scholar at AEI, he will focus on policies affecting the information technology sector, innovation and entrepreneurship. Eisenach is also a managing director and a principal at Navigant Economics and an adjunct professor at the George Mason University School of Law, where he teaches Regulated Industries. Read more »

Jennifer Mulveny serves as director of government affairs at Intel Corporation in Washington, D.C. She is responsible for international trade and cloud policy and serves as the primary liaison with Senate Republicans for the Company.

Prior to Intel, Jennifer served as director of global trade policy at Hewlett Packard Company in Washington. She worked with country directors around the world to shape the company’s global trade and investment policy. She also was responsible for managing HP’s global policy for the company’s PC and printer business. Read more »

Fred Humphries is Vice President of U.S. Government Affairs, for Microsoft Corporation, in Washington D.C. where he manages both the Federal and State Government Affairs teams. With almost twenty years of state, federal, campaign and association experience, Fred’s professional background includes serving as Senior Policy Advisor for Congressman Richard Gephardt’s Leadership Staff in Washington, D.C. in the Office of the Minority Leader, as Southern Political Director for the Democratic National Committee, and as Chief of Staff for Congressman Sanford Bishop of Georgia. Read more »

Ambassador Gross is one of the world’s foremost experts on international telecommunications, having addressed the United Nations (UN) General Assembly and led more U.S. delegations to major international telecommunication conferences than anyone in modern history. Drawing on his more than 25 years of experience as a global policy maker and corporate executive, he assists U.S. companies seeking to enter or expand international businesses, as well as non-U.S. companies and organizations seeking to invest in, monitor and understand the U.S. market. Amb. Read more »

Shane is President and CEO of Personal, which he co-founded in 2009 in Washington, DC. Personal is a web and mobile platform that helps individuals own, control and be the primary beneficiary of their personal data instead of companies. Read more »

Greg Farmer is Vice President of Government Affairs for Qualcomm. In this capacity, Farmer leads Qualcomm’s Washington, DC office and manages the legislative agenda for the Company with respect to the federal government and the United States Congress. Read more »

Mr. Mahler manages government affairs for Oracle Corporation. He is responsible for formulating the company’s global public policy agenda and communicating those policies to lawmakers and government agencies at all levels of government. Before joining Oracle in 2010, Mr. Mahler served for six years as Chief of Staff for Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo (14th District, California – Palo Alto) in her Washington office. Prior to joining the Congresswoman’s staff , Mr. Read more »

Blair Levin currently serves as a Communications and Society Fellow with the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program, following his departure from the Federal Communications Commission, where he served as the Executive Director of the Omnibus Broadband Initiative. In his role at the Federal Communications Commission, Mr. Levin oversaw the development of a National Broadband Plan, a project mandated by Congress in the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Mr. Levin rejoined the Commission in June 2009, after eight years as an analyst at Legg Mason and Stifel Nicolaus. Read more »