Peter McPherson is president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (A۰P۰L۰U), the nation’s oldest higher education association comprised of public research universities, land-grant institutions, and state university systems. A۰P۰L۰U member campuses enroll more than 3.5 million undergraduate and 1.1 million graduate students, employ more than 645,000 faculty members, and conduct nearly two-thirds of all academic research, totaling more than $34 billion annually. A۰P۰L۰U is dedicated to excellence in learning, discovery and engagement. Read more »

Fred Downey joined the Aerospace Industries Association in June of 2008. Working with AIA’s Defense Council, he is responsible for monitoring and analyzing national security issues that affect the U.S. aerospace industry’s ability to support the Defense Department and to compete and cooperate in the national and global marketplace, and he coordinates the activities of the association’s National Security and Technical Operations Councils and their associated committees and working groups to develop industry consensus and responses to these issues. Read more »

Ian Paul Steff is Vice President, Global Policy and Technology Partnerships for the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). In this capacity, he is responsible for a wide range of government policies encompassing the Association's domestic and international involvement. SIA is the lead trade association representing the $148 billion U.S. semiconductor industry – America’s number-one export industry. Mr. Steff works closely with the SIA's Public Policy Committee, while assisting the Association in the coordination of Washington-based initiatives and the development of global strategies. Read more »

Hunter R. Rawlings III became president of the Association of the American Universities on June 1, 2011. Prior to this position, Rawlings served as president of Cornell University from 1995 to 2003, and as interim president for one year between 2005 and 2006. He served as president of the University of Iowa from 1988 to 1995. Read more »

Since 1993, Peter has worked as a consultant with numerous clients on projects involving personal and mobile communications. Clients include cellular carriers, communications software companies, network hardware companies, automotive electronics companies, research organizations and universities. He also teaches seminars, leads a standards efforts, and writes articles on wireless communications. Read more »

Mr. Ronnie Andrews serves as President of Medical Sciences at Life Technologies. Mr. Andrews has more than 25 years of experience in the diagnostics industry, including leadership positions at companies such as GE Healthcare, Clarient, Abbott Diagnostics and Roche Diagnostics. Mr. Andrews applies his expertise to expand Life Technologies' presence in the diagnostics and personalized medicine space through strategies including short and long term partnerships. Mr. Read more »

Ed joined the company in 2000 as Vice President, Controller, of Fisher Scientific’s U.S. research business. He also served as Vice President and General Manager of the U.S. research business and Vice President of Finance for U.S. Distribution Operations. In 2006, Ed was named president of Thermo Fisher’s Research Market business. In July 2008, he was named President of Customer Channels and became a Senior Vice President of the company. Read more »

Michael Marcus is a native of Boston and received S.B. and Sc.D. degrees in electrical engineering from MIT. Prior to joining the FCC in 1979, he worked at Bell Labs on the theory of telephone switching, served in the Air Force where he was involved in underground nuclear test detection research, and analyzed electronic warfare issues at the Institute for Defense Analyses. Read more »

Martin A. Schmidt received his BS degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1981 and his SM and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983 and 1988 respectively. Since 1988 he has been a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT. From 1999 to 2006 he served as the Director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) at MIT. Read more »