Thanks to Ann Higgins for the heads up on FCC chairman Julius Genachowski’s new staff. Apparently they will be meeting later today. Here’s the staff list according to MultiChannel
Coming from private industry to help with the plan under the watchful eye of Ominbus Broadband Initiative (OBI) Executive Director Blair Levin:
*Erik Garr, general manager. Garr is on leave from Diamond Management and Technology Consultants.
*Brian David, adoption and usage director. David is a former media banker with Goldman Sachs and has had a variety of business development posts.
*Kristen Kane, national purposes director (the broadband initiative implicates everything from health care and energy to education and government services). Kane has been chief operating officer of the New York City Department of Education. She also has a banking background as an analyst at JP Morgan and Salomon Smith Barney.
*John Horrigan, consumer research director. Horrigan comes from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, where he was the author of its Measuring Broadband report, among many others.
*Rob Curtis, deployment director. Curtis is a former CLEC (competitive local exchange carrier) president and former member of the high-tech practice of McKinsey & Co.The in-house talent being tapped for leadership roles: Julie Veach, acting chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, will be the policy team leader; John Leibovitz, deputy chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, will be team lead on spectrum issues; Donald Stockdale, deputy chief, chief economist, Wireline Competition Bureau, will be a policy adviser; Krista Witanowski, attorney advisor, Media Bureau, will coordinate the broadband workshops (the first is being held Aug, 6); Christopher Lewis, legislative analyst in the Office of Legal Affairs, will liaison with legislators; Roger Goldblatt, outreach and policy advisor, Consumer & Government Affairs Bureau, will coordinate community outreach.
Mark Wigfield, spokesman for the Wireline Competition Bureau, will be the chief spokesman for the broadband effort.
