Confirmed Speakers and Moderators for the World Standards Week Session

Frank is a partner in the Intellectual Property & Technology practice group of the Phoenix, Arizona--based law firm of Jennings Strouss & Salmon. His practice focuses on technology standards, technology transfer, and other aspects of domestic and international intellectual property and technology matters. He represents clients in various industries, including software, semiconductor, biotechnology, and other technology-related industries. Frank has experience representing technology companies in their participation in a variety of domestic and international technology standards rganizations. He counsels these technology clients regarding the plethora of legal issues that arise during the various stages of involvement with technology standards organizations, including the following: assisting in the formulation of the Intellectual Property Rights/Patent Licensing Policy; evaluating business and legal ramifications associated with participating in technology standards organizations; and formulating internal corporate procedures to assist with educating employees about the appropriate ways to participate in technology standards organizations.

Since 1996 he has been an Adjunct Professor of Law teaching intellectual property courses, first at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, in Sacramento, California, and more recently at the Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. Frank was a visiting attorney at a Tokyo, Japan law firm in the early 1990s and his practice has had an international focus since that time. Frank is admitted to practice in New York and Oregon only.

Carter Eltzroth is Legal Director of the DVB Project. DVB is the Geneva-based standards forum creating technical standards – implemented worldwide – for digital television. As a central participant within DVB since 1993, he leads its efforts in fostering voluntary licensing regimes of patents essential for DVB specifications. He has also created the licensing regime for its Common Scrambling Algorithm, the arrangements for licensing and conformance testing for the Multimedia Home Platform, and the PKI infrastructure for authenticating MHP applications. Carter Eltzroth has also served as Secretary General of the Association Européenne pour la Protection des Œuvres et services Cryptés (AEPOC), Europe’s association which fights the piracy caused by “hacking” content offered through pay television and the Internet. He has held a number of positions in the Association of Commercial Television in Europe. On behalf of the European Commission, he has conducted studies on conditional access and other “gateways” which may impede the launch and development of digital markets. In the course of his career, he acted General Counsel for Nethold (FilmNet) and has represented the European pay television industry – including the broadcasters BSkyB, Canal+ and Telepiu – before the institutions of the European Union and frequently before national regulatory bodies. He has participated in the formulation of EU policy on broadcasting, protection of IPR and television standards. He has also worked actively to extend this policy to the new accession states of central Europe and beyond.

Carter Eltzroth has been actively involved in the convergence of broadcasting with the telecommunications, content and computer industries, most notably in the Global Business Dialogue on ecommerce (GBDe). He is the co-author of a World Bank Working Paper, Broadcasting and Development, Options for the World Bank (2003).

Carter Eltzroth is a graduate of Oxford University and Columbia Law School, and is a member of the New York bar.

Jørgen Friis was elected as Deputy Director-General of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) by the ETSI General Assembly on 6 April 2001.

He is jointly responsible for general management of the ETSI Secretariat based in Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE and is an ex-officio member of the ETSI Board.

Previously Vice President of the Network Division of Tele Danmark, Mr. Friis was responsible for access network strategy, norms and policies, systems, planning, design, registration and documentation.

Prior to joining Tele Denmark, he was Manager of the Network Section in Jutland Telephone Company, responsible for deployment of fibre cables in the trunked network and for the development of a quality system under the ISO 9000 concept.

Mr. Friis (born 1954), has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the Engineering College of Aarhus (Denmark), has received a diploma in Organisation at Aarhus Business School, and a diploma in leadership and change from the Institute of Danish Engineers. He followed Tele Denmark executive leadership MBA program at INSEAD Business School in Fontainebleau, France.

Mr. Friis is a Danish citizen and a member of the Danish Society of Engineers.

Michael Hoghooghi heads the Corporate Standards & Technology Organization in Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. and is based in Austin, Texas. In this role, he manages existing affiliations with the standards bodies, trade and industry alliances while scoping opportunities for new and emerging standards. These responsibilities cover formulation of internal corporate procedures to guide and educate employees about appropriate ways to participate in technology standards & regulatory organizations. His experience over the last 20 years ranges from: wireless communications, manufacturing, product development management, technology and regulatory standards in Motorola and now in Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

While in Motorola, he served as a technical liaison to the product development organizations in response to the Section-255 of Telecomm Act of 1996 and Compliance Board for Access. Michael has a first-hand understanding of many of the standards both technically and from a business and procedural perspective. Michael holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Florida Atlantic University and has a Masters Certification on Program Management from George Washington University.

Paula Hunter has distinguished herself as a leader in the IT industry, bringing more than 20 years of experience to OSDL. Paula most recently served as executive director of UnitedLinux where she was responsible for broadening global membership, developing a range of training and certification programs and support offerings, and also for the UnitedLinux roadmap. Prior to UnitedLinux, Paula served as vice president of marketing for Xevo Corporation, where she drove the company's marketing efforts and strategy. As a founding officer and chairman of the ASP (Application Service Provider) Industry Consortium, Paula provided strategic direction and operational management to this global advocacy group. Previously, Paula held key operational executive positions at several startup companies, and within Compaq Computer's Emerging Markets Business Unit.

Paula is currently responsible for expanding the membership of OSDL and increasing participation of current members.

Paula holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from Bentley College.

Kathleen Riley Kono is Vice President, Global Cooperation for ASTM International. Her responsibilities include leading and coordinating ASTM’s international outreach efforts. Mrs. Kono has been with ASTM since 1975 and has held various management positions including Washington Representative, Executive Director of the ASTM Institute for Standards Research, Editor of ASTM’s Magazine Standardization News, and Manager of numerous standards developing technical committees. She graduated from Hollins College with a degree in psychology and was twice honored as an “Outstanding Young Woman of America.”

Andy has been structuring and representing technology consortia since 1988 through Gesmer Updegrove LLP, a Boston-based technology law firm. During that time period, he has worked with over 70 such organizations, and has been retained by many of the largest technology companies in the world to assist them in forming standard setting, open source, advocacy and promotional consortia. He has also written and spoken extensively on the topics of consortia and standard setting, has given testimony to the United States Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission on the same topics, and has filed "friend of the court" briefs on a pro bono basis with the Federal Circuit Court, Supreme Court, and Federal Trade Commission on leading standards litigation. In 2004, he was invited to become a member of the ANSI National Standards Strategy Committee.

In the summer of 2002, he launched ConsortiumInfo.org, a website intended to be the most detailed and comprehensive resource on the Internet on the topics of consortia and standard setting. The site attracts more than 55,000 commercial, government and academic visitors each month from over 100 countries, and includes a news portal, exhaustive list of consortia, detailed content on standard setting topics, and much more. In December of 2002, he launched the Consortium Standards Bulletin, a monthly e-Journal of news, ideas and analysis in the standard setting area that now has thousands of subscribers. Besides working with consortia, he has a broad range of experience in representing both mature and emerging high technology companies in all aspects of their legal affairs. He is a graduate of Yale University and the Cornell University Law School.

David is a veteran technology marketer with 18 years of professional experience. He has held management positions in marketing, engineering, and marketing communications for Tektronix and for a series of entrepreneurial startups. For the past 4 years, he has helped lead Kavi's effort to develop web services specifically for standards consortia and provide best practices consulting services to Kavi customers.

David is responible for strategic planning at Kavi. He is the author, along with John Keith, of Operating Policies and Procedures – Engineering a Process for Standards Setting Success. David also edits a blog aggregating and commenting on standards news - The Kavi Standard . David is a graduate of Marylhurst University.

Ms. Winter is responsible for China trade policy matters at USTR, including competition and intellectual property polices. Before joining USTR’s China Affairs office, she served as Associate General Counsel, as well as Deputy Assistant USTR for Asia, Pacific and APEC. In these capacities she litigated WTO disputes settlement cases, negotiated competition, trade remedy and safeguard issues, and, e.g., was the lead USTR negotiator for the competition chapters in the U.S.-Australia and U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreements, and WTO, OECD and FTAA competition work.

Before joining USTR, Ms. Winter was an international trade and competition partner in major international law firms in Washington, D.C. and Brussels. Early in her career, she served in the General Counsels Office at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and at the Directorate General for Competition of the Commission of the European Communities.

Ms. Winter earned undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Georgia with honors. She also holds a Masters degree in European Communities law (license spécial) with honors from the Institut d'Études Européennes of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and was an adjunct professor of EC law at George Washington University School of Law and George Mason University.