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Ms. Roseman draws upon a broad range of commercial, diplomatic, strategic, public policy, managerial and analytical skills developed through more than 20 years of public and private sector experience in the electronic and print media businesses. For more than half of that time, she has specialized in the international dimension of telecommunications and information services issues and in strategic development and execution. Immediately before founding CompassRose International, Ms. Roseman was the first Director of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Office of International Communications. She was responsible for coordinating all international issues, including those involving trade, telecommunications development (including universal access/service), accounting rates and rate arbitrage, and development of new satellite and wireless services. As Vice Chair of the U.S. delegation to the 1992 World Administrative Radio Conference, she successfully led the FCC's efforts to secure spectrum allocations for satellites and other services. Ms. Roseman spent the previous six years as a senior executive with INTELSAT, where she worked to develop the organization's first strategic plan. She managed multi-disciplinary projects aimed at international business and policy development and directed INTELSAT's liaison activities with key governments. Before joining INTELSAT, Ms. Roseman was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She also served as Senior Vice President of National Affairs and Planning at National Public Radio and as an official with the former White House Office of Telecommunications Policy. Ms. Roseman began her career in communications as a print journalist covering education issues, and then as Managing Editor of the National Cable Television Association's publications programs. Ms. Roseman is active in a number of professional activities, including:
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Mr Blumenthal is responsible for project management for a variety of clients, including Government, NGO and private sector organizations, in the areas of telecommunication and Internet regulatory affairs. He is also responsible for managing both client-specific and general research efforts, with a focus on ICT, market access, spectrum management and telecom issues in the developing world. Mr. Blumenthal tracks developments in global telecommunications, satellite and information technology markets, as well as major legislative and regulatory developments in the United States and internationally. Other responsibilities include marketing and public relations, managing the firm’s information technology needs, and general project/client management.
Eric Nelson brings to CompassRose International more than 15 years of experience with many of the United States' largest telecommunications companies. Over the course of his career, he has served in a number of executive positions for the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). Most recently Mr. Nelson held the position of Vice President of Global Network Marketing, where he was responsible for directing business development activities, including all strategic aspects of the association's domestic and international market development activities. In addition, he was responsible for organizing domestic and international conferences, sponsoring foreign delegations in the United States, orchestrating emerging technology white papers and other mechanisms for promoting emerging technologies, as well as working with a variety of government agencies responsible for assisting U.S. commercial interests.
Mr. Nelson's previous experience at TIA includes ten years as Vice President of International Affairs, during which time he was responsible for directing all aspects of TIA's international program, including managing a one million dollar budget and a staff located in Washington, D.C., Russia, China, the European Union and Brazil. He also developed and implemented TIA's international regulatory, trade policy, and business development goals. Mr. Nelson worked on behalf of TIA members to convince U.S. and other governments to enhance market access and sales opportunities for TIA members. He was an active participant in WTO and ITU forums on a number of policy issues, including global wireless regulations, global mobile personal communications by satellite (GMPCS) regulatory coordination, regional/global equipment certification, global technology policy, export controls, and electronic commerce. Prior to joining TIA, Mr. Nelson was Director of Government Relations for the North American Telecom Association.
Mr. Nelson holds a B.S. in Economics from George Mason University and an M.A. in Economics from Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University.
In addition to its in-house consulting staff, CompassRose International draws upon a team of independent consultants in a variety of specialized fields. CompassRose International maintains a contractual relationship with these Senior Advisors to ensure their availability for specific projects.
Mr. Adanusa is a telecommunications policy and regulatory consultant based in Accra, Ghana. He has over 35 years of experience in international telecommunications, including 28 years with Ghana Telecom, where he rose to the position of Director of Engineering for External Telecommunications Services. He was responsible for the operation, maintenance and development of Ghana Telecom's international telecommunications services and successfully implemented the rehabilitation and modernization of the international telecom network resulting in the introduction of International Direct Dialing, AT&T USA Direct and BT, UK Direct Services.
Since leaving Ghana Telecom in 1994, Mr. Adanusa has served as a private telecoms consultant, including Telecom Advisor to the Ghana Minister of Communications & Technology, serving on the Steering Committee responsible for the implementation of the telecom sector reform program covering privatization of Ghana Telecom and licensing of a second network operator. Most recently he was Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Adanusa has represented Ghana at numerous international meetings, including ITU Telecom Plenipot, the INTELSAT Assembly and Restructuring, and the INMARSAT Assembly and Restructuring Group. The restructuring meetings of INTELSAT and INMARSAT involved preparatory work for privatization to be followed by an Initial Public Offering.
Mr. Adanusa also represented Ghana at the ATU Plenipot and Restructuring, RASCOM Plenipot, and WTO Basic Telecom negotiations. Most recently, Mr. Adanusa served as Vice-Chairman (Africa), at the ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2000, where he coordinated the successful participation of African delegations in the Assembly. Mr. Adanusa is a Fellow of Ghana Institution of Engineers (FGhIE), and served as President of the Ghana Institution of Engineers from 1988-1989.
Ray Behbehani has 14 years of telecommunications industry experience, having held a number of senior positions in carrier services, strategic planning, sales/business development, marketing, and industry relations with Sprint, Verizon, and CompTel, a US trade association for long distance carriers. From 1997 to 2003, he was Sprint's senior regional manager for the Middle East, North Africa and the Caucuses, where he worked on accounting rates, least-cost routing, regulatory issues, network deployment, and the sales of voice and data services, including IP and VOIP to carriers and ISPs in the region.
Prior to entering the telecommunications industry, Mr. Behbehani was a Washington business correspondent for the Saudi Gazette, a Saudi Arabian English daily, and a policy analyst/lobbyist with the Middle East Policy and Research Corporation. He has a BS in international economics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service has an MBA in marketing and finance from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Mr. Blanc is a space communications systems consultant based in France. Between 1991 and 2000, he was Director General of Satel Conseil, a consortium created by the French Space Agency and France Telecom to provide space telecommunications consulting services.
Mr. Blanc joined Satel Conseil from CNES, the French Space Agency, in 1971 after working for six years at the French Defense Ministry's Landes Test Center on the development and operation of radar and infrared trajectory analysis systems for ballistic missiles.
At CNES, Mr. Blanc was assigned to the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana from 1971 to 1976. Between 1976 and 1986 he was in charge of CNES's international affairs in South America. From 1988 to 1990, he was Deputy Director for Technical Affairs. Returning from his second stay in French Guiana, in 1990, he was appointed CNES Deputy Director of Financial Affairs in Paris, before being named Director General of Satel Conseil in September 1991. During his tenure at CNES, Mr. Blanc worked on numerous projects, including sounding rockets, the Diamant launch vehicle and Ariane launchers.
Ms. Clarke is an attorney with a broad range of skills in international relations, business development, strategic planning, public relations and all aspects of U.S. and international communications. She is an expert in matters related to satellite communications, having served in the industry for more than 20 years.
Before joining CompassRose, Ms. Clarke was the Acting General Counsel and Associate General Counsel of INTELSAT. She held other management, business development and policy positions for INTELSAT, including Senior Advisor for Strategic Planning and Head of Public and External Relations. Ms. Clarke began her employment with INTELSAT as an attorney and then Assistant Legal Advisor after working on INTELSAT matters for six years in the Office of the General Counsel at COMSAT Corp.
Dr. Darby specializes in economic and financial analysis of new telecommunications technologies and markets. He assists clients in forecasting demand for new technology-based services, devising market entry and service development strategies and assessing regulatory risks. Prior to founding the consulting practice Darby Associates in 1988, he was Vice President of Lehman Brothers' Telecommunications Investment Banking Group for five years.
During the previous two years, as Executive Director of the Motor Carrier Rate-making Study Commission, Dr. Darby directed a joint congressional investigation into the application of antitrust law to the motor carrier industry. He has also served as Chief Economist and Chief of the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau, and Senior Economist in the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy. He has been a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Temple University, where he taught managerial and industrial economics and regulation of business.
Dr. Darby also is Lecturer in Telecommunications Finance at the George Washington University Graduate School and contributes regularly to the trade publication Communications Business and Finance. He is currently writing a book on telecommunications technology and investment. His recent projects for CompassRose International include demand projections for new satellite and terrestrial broadcasting technologies, valuations of spectrum licenses and related radio assets, assessment of digital satellite markets and various analyses of the financial impacts of regulatory, technological and market forces. He has also advised the government of Indonesia on a variety of regulatory, policy, and privatization issues.
Mr. Holt has specialized in designing and managing systems within which the creative process can flourish. This has led him to a great interest in the start-up or restructuring phases of organizational development. One of the architects of the public broadcasting system in the U.S., Mr. Holt wrote the original planning document for public radio (The Public Radio Study, 1969) and was the first head of the Programming Department at PBS, where he designed the programming process. He later headed programming at NPR. Public broadcasting programs he helped launch into national distribution include Masterpiece Theatre, Morning Edition, Nova, Wall $treet Week, and Prairie Home Companion.
Mr. Holt was the representative for both PBS and NPR to international organizations, and was chosen Vice Chairman of the North American National Broadcasters Association (NANBA) while at NPR. He later was head of content for WorldSpace, the first global direct-to-person digital radio and data broadcaster.
In addition, Mr. Holt has served as a consultant to Discovery Communications, HBO, the Library of Congress, U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and USIA, as well as a variety of foundations and public broadcasting entities. Consulting services included management and organizational design, content development and management, public diplomacy issues, and new technology applications to content resources.
Mr. Holt holds degrees from Princeton, Oxford (where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar) and Harvard.
James W. Johnson is an engineer and attorney with more than 30 years of experience in telecommunications and aerospace. His experience includes both domestic and international business development, procurement, negotiations, sales, marketing, intellectual property, communications and commercial law and regulation.
Immediately prior to becoming Senior Advisor to CompassRose International, Mr. Johnson was INTELSAT's Director of Procurement. Mr. Johnson joined INTELSAT in 1978 as Assistant General Counsel. During his 10 years at INTELSAT, he held a variety of legal positions, including Chief Patent Counsel. Mr. Johnson also served as INTELSAT's first Marketing Director, with responsibility for the Asia-Pacific Region.
In addition, he has held positions as a senior attorney with the General Electric Co. and COMSAT, and as an engineer with Mitre Corp. and Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
Francis Latapie specializes in the international satellite telecommunications industry, including liaison activities with governments, regulatory bodies, international organizations, and commercial communications entities in countries around the world. Mr. Latapie has extensive experience in all aspects of satellite telecommunication projects, including planning, financing, procurement and commercial operations. Most recently Mr. Latapie was Vice President of Government & Regulatory Affairs for Astrolink LLC, where he was responsible for the resolution of commercial policy and regulatory issues associated with the worldwide introduction of the Astrolink system, a Ka band digital geostationary satellite system providing on-demand, two-way interactive broadband services. These included commercial access to national markets, identification of in-country service providers, development and negotiation of service provision agreements, licensing of space segment, gateways and satellite equipment, respect of national sovereign rights, and type approval of earth stations equipment.
Prior to Astrolink, Mr. Latapie was Vice President of Government Affairs for Iridium LLC, where he was responsible for the resolution of commercial policy and regulatory issues associated with the worldwide introduction of the Iridium system, including spectrum availability, licensing of space segment, gateways and satellite equipment, access to national markets, identification of in-country service providers, development and negotiation of service provision agreements, respect of national sovereign rights, global type approval and free circulation of handheld equipment.
Mr. Latapie is also a 21 year veteran of INTELSAT, where he served as Director of External Relations, responsible for all liaison activities with governments, investors and users of the INTELSAT system with regard to the ITU and all international standard setting organizations. In addition, Mr. Latapie managed all corporate and marketing communication functions and was responsible for spectrum availability and the intersystem coordination of all satellites of the INTELSAT network. He also managed all INTELSAT training, education, assistance and development programs for telecommunication growth in developing nations (over 250 projects in 118 countries).
Mr. Latapie holds a Master’s in Economics from the University of Paris and was a Fulbright Scholar. He is Fluent in French, English and Spanish.
Mr. Lesnoy is the co-founder and president of Rand Solutions Group, a networking and information systems consulting firm with clients in Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland. Mr. Lesnoy has more than 10 years of experience in network infrastructure and system integration, including centralized mainframe and client-server network topologies. He specializes in analyzing the information systems needs of businesses and applying the appropriate technology and/or management solutions.
Mr. Lesnoy also has developed and designed document management systems, information migration software and telecommunication systems. His work includes the implementation of web-based mail, wide area networking, network management systems, databases and help-desk systems. In the rapidly changing Internet arena, he has worked on web design and web applications for Internet and intranet use. Mr. Lesnoy also has had extensive experience training end users and system administrators on virtually all of today's current technologies. During the past 5 years he has been consulting, training and serving as an integration project manager in several regions of the United States.
Mr. Lesnoy's work for CompassRose includes network systems design and management, review of technology solutions for international communications applications, as well as analysis of the potential applications for emerging Internet-based technologies and programming environments.
Mr. Makarov specializes in international telecommunications regulatory and business development work, advising satellite and telecommunications companies on their European and CIS regulatory interests. His expertise ranges from technical regulatory issues such as spectrum allocation, type approval and services licensing to business development, including market entry strategies, channel management and market analysis.
Mr. Makarov has extensive experience with the ITU as well as with various regional telecommunications organizations in Europe and the CIS, such as CEPT and RCC. At the last World Radio Conference, Mr. Makarov successfully negotiated with 29 countries to gain favorable support for his clients’ spectrum interests. He previously worked at Coopers & Lybrand Consulting and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, focusing on business development of emerging telecommunications technologies. His clients included major technology suppliers, service providers, financial institutions and network operators.
Mr. Makarov also has served as an advisor to the Telecommunications Industry Association, consulting with TIA’s regional office in order to enhance business opportunities for TIA members in Russia and the other countries of the CIS. Early in his career, Mr. Makarov was a telecommunications specialist with the U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg, Russia. Mr. Makarov performed his studies at Dartmouth College, Leningrad State University, Keller Graduate School of Management, World Institute for International Law and Economics. Mr. Makarov splits his time between Washington, D.C. and Europe. In addition to English and his native Russian, Mr. Makarov also has a working knowledge of Czech and Slovak languages.
Dr. Charles Rush is an expert on telecommunications technology trends, domestic and international spectrum regulations and policies, and spectrum management and standards issues. He has advised clients including the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau; a federally funded research and development center focusing on high technology aerospace issues; a telecommunications management company focusing on the range of technical, regulatory and policy issues as they pertain to telecommunications infrastructure development in the developing world; a professional telecommunications industry association and foreign national telecommunications regulators. His current focus is on 2G and 3G wireless systems, inter-service sharing of radio systems (terrestrial and space-borne), and the impact of technology advances on spectrum-use policies and regulations in both the developed and developing worlds.
From 1997 until 1999, Dr. Rush was with IRIDIUM LLC. During that time he had responsibility for assessing and coordinating spectrum requirements to meet the current and future needs of the IRIDIUM satellite system. From 1995 until 1997, Dr. Rush was a Vice President of CompassRose International. In that capacity he undertook numerous client-oriented projects involving U.S. technology and telecommunications policies and their impact on both domestic and international markets. From 1991 to 1995, Dr. Rush was the Chief Scientist of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), in the U.S. Department of Commerce. From 1989 until 1991, Dr. Rush headed NTIA's Office of International Affairs. During that time, he was responsible for developing and coordinating NTIA's international telecommunications and information policies with all agencies of the U.S. Government and served as a principal in U.S. Government negotiations with other Administrations.
Dr. Rush earned an A.B. in Physics from Temple University in 1964, a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Physics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1967, and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Colorado in 1980. From 1991 until 1997, Dr. Rush was an officer of the U.S. National Research Council's U.S. National Committee of the International Radio Science Union. Dr. Rush is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Laura Sherman is President of Argus International LLC, a consultancy that provides legal representation and strategic advice to businesses, governments and international organizations on telecommunications and international trade issues. In addition to representing clients before the Federal Communications Commission, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and other U.S. government agencies and reviewing operational contracts for clients, Ms. Sherman organizes and lectures at seminars on capacity building in telecommunications regulation and World Trade Organization agreements and implementation.
From September 1998 to September 2002, Ms. Sherman was Communications Counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, providing legal advice on telecommunications, trade and corporate issues. From July 1997 to July 1998, Ms. Sherman served as Senior Legal Advisor for International Trade Policy in the International Bureau, FCC, working on competitive issues relating to the international satellite and wireline telecommunications markets, as well as implementation of the U.S. obligations under the WTO's Agreement on Basic Telecom Services.
Prior to joining the FCC, Ms. Sherman was Associate General Counsel in the Office of the United States Trade Representative for five years, concentrating in telecommunications, government procurement and investment trade issues. Ms. Sherman was the legal advisor to the U.S. delegation to the negotiations resulting in the WTO's Agreement on Basic Telecom Services and the "Reference Paper," the regulatory principles for telecommunications services. She has extensive experience with respect to the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services, the Agreement on Government Procurement and the Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures, as well as on bilateral investment agreements.
Ms. Sherman has also practiced corporate law in the New York office of Paul Weiss and was on the staff of the Legal Adviser's Office at the Department of State. She has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. from Cornell University. She is the author of a number of articles on international telecommunications and trade issues and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Ms. Sherman is co-chair of the International Committee of the Federal Communications Bar Association.
Janet Pearce Stenzel has fifteen years of international market development and government relations experience focusing on wireless, cable, and wire-line telecommunications carriers wishing to expand operations in the Asia-Pacific region. Support for these efforts includes strategy, sourcing, marketing and channels, benchmarking, human resource development, and government policy reform in the region. She has advised companies on strategies for marketing, competition assessment, and regulatory relations in Asia, North America, and South and Central America.
Ms Pearce Stenzel has advised ISPs, broadcast and communication firms, information carriers, as well as both large and small user groups around the Pacific Rim. In line with her professional activities in the Asia-Pacific region, Ms. Pearce Stenzel serves on numerous boards, including the International Advisory Group to the PECC Telecom and IT Forum, the Executive Committee of the APEC Telecommunications Working Group, the Steering Committee of the ITU Center for Excellence in Asia, and the board of the Pacific Telecommunications Council.
At present Ms. Pearce Stenzel is operating as the President of ICM InSights Inc. and as Fellow at the Center for Telecommunications Management at the University of Southern California. Previously, Ms. Pearce Stenzel served as Executive Director of the PECC Telecom and IT Forum and as a Senior Advisor to the consulting firm of Commstrategies International.
Before entering management and business development advisement Ms. Pearce Stenzel worked as a research fellow for the Economic Strategy Institute; an issue manager for the Public Relations firms of Burson Marsteller and Bonner & Associates; an analyst covering US Securities and Exchange Commission activities for States News; and as a reporter working for Newsweek while living in Belgium. Ms. Pearce Stenzel resides in Los Angeles, California.
Dr. Stevenson has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, including extensive involvement with satellite and wireless technologies. His expertise ranges from data communication and networking to Web-based content management and applications. He founded the Leapfrog Telecommunications Consultancy, based in Alexandria, VA, in 2002.
John Stevenson has worked in the development of satellite-based Internet services since 1994. He has held senior positions during the recent past at INTELSAT, at Orblynx, Inc. and at Astrolink International, all with responsibility for advanced system and service concepts. These experiences have covered one-way/multicast and two-way/interactive satellite transmission schemes, in all frequency bands, using both proprietary and standards-based technology, for public and private network use (and have even involved the now infamous "applications we haven't thought of just yet"). At Orblynx, where Dr. Stevenson was Chief Technology Officer, he was directly responsible for introducing satellite-based Internet Distribution System (IDS) technologies into a commercial service platform, for deployments worldwide.
Dr. Stevenson was awarded a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, U.K. He is a past winner (in 1990) of the IEEE P.K. McElroy Award.
Updated February 1, 2003