Family Online Safety Institute

Head of Content Policy, GSMA

Natasha Jackson, Head of Content Policy at the GSMA, is responsible for public policy and regulatory issues arising from mobile content services. Natasha leads the GSMA's work on promoting responsible self-regulatory approaches to mobile content services. She was responsible for the development of a global code of practice on mobile spam and has recently developed educational toolkits for mobile operators outlining issues and good practice in the areas of age-sensitive commercial content and child protection. She also leads the GSMA's global mobile initiative against child sexual abuse content (child pornography).

Head of Internet Customer Security & Specialist Services
BT

Brian is responsible for BT's Internet acceptable use policy and its enforcement for BT's 4 million plus customer base across BT's Internet access products. Within BT Brian works as part of its child Internet safety steering group and the corporate responsibility group on social impacts of the Internet. He represents BT on the board of FOSI, the funding council of the Internet Watch Foundation and on the UK Council for Child Internet Safety public awareness committee.

Vice President, External Affairs and Policy Counselor
Time Warner Cable

In this position, Fernando helps Time Warner Cable develop and advance its policy positions, focusing on consumer protection, competition issues, intellectual property and telecommunications regulation.

Assistant Vice President, Public Policy
AT&T

Brent Olson serves as Assistant Vice President-Regulatory Policy, Emerging Services and Technologies at AT&T Services, Inc. Mr. Olson's responsibilities at AT&T include helping to develop and coordinate at the federal and state levels SBC's regulatory policies covering emerging technologies, such as broadband, IP-based services, and video technology services.

Chief Security Officer
MySpace

Hemanshu Nigam serves as the first Chief Security Officer for News Corporation’s online properties including MySpace, where he is responsible for setting the strategy and vision for safety, security, and privacy programs across News Corporation’s online properties.

Executive Director, Internet & Technology Policy
Verizon

An attorney and engineer, Mr. McKeehan is currently Executive Director, Internet & Technology Policy, for Verizon, where he is responsible for developing policy strategies for next-generation network and service platforms, including fiber to the premises (FTTP).

Internet Safety Advocate 
Symantec Corporation

Marian Merritt provides consumer-friendly insights into technology issues impacting families as Symantec's Internet Safety Advocate. In this role, Marian is the official spokesperson for Symantec's "Norton Connected and Protected Family Safety Initiative," which is dedicated to raising awareness of Internet safety.

Chief Privacy Officer; Vice President, Corporate Affairs 
Loopt

Brian Knapp oversees data privacy and security matters, regulatory and policy efforts, corporate development and legal affairs at Loopt. He is on the board of directors of the Family Online Safety Institute, and participates on the Internet Safety Technical Task Force and the advisory committee to Cyber Safe California by the California Office of Privacy Protection.

Subdirector Atencion via Internet
TELMEX

Ricardo Kuri, joined TELMEX in 1999. He is responsible for the overall online business, including Corporate Websites (Mexico and Latin American), Telmex's Online Store, Escuderia Telmex and Pandilla Telmex Websites. TELMEX online unit has grown from less than 1 million of unique users to more than 10 million users per month.

Director of Child Safety, Communities & Content Policies
Yahoo!

Catherine Teitelbaum is the Director of Child Safety, Communities and Content Policies for Yahoo! Inc, the world's largest global online network of integrated services with more than 500 million users worldwide.

Corporate Responsibility Manager
Telefónica Group

María José Cantarino joined Telefonica in 1997, developing her career in areas directly related and focused on the international projection and expansion of Telefonica.

Head of Sales & Business Development
StreamShield

Mark heads up Sales and business development at StreamShield. He has worked in a wide variety of roles in the telecoms and media industry over his 25 year career. He has extensive knowledge of new network deployments in cable and cellular systems and was actively involved in the UK broadband unbundling process.

Deputy Chief Privacy Officer
Sprint

Edward is Deputy Chief Privacy Officer and Director of Sprint Nextel Legal Department’s Office of Privacy, where he provides privacy-related advice for internal attorneys and business clients.

Vice President of Operations and Managing Member
RuleSpace, LLC.

James is responsible for sales, business strategy and partnerships at RuleSpace. He joined RuleSpace in 1999 to design and deploy their first generation of RuleSpace solutions. He currently manages RuleSpace product strategy, sales and partnerships. He serves on the board of the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), and advises on child Internet protection strategies for industry, regulators, and law enforcement worldwide.

Vice President of Public Affairs
NCTA

David Pierce has been with the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) in Washington, DC since November 1990. Currently serving as Vice President, Public Affairs, his primary responsibilities include creating, implementing and coordinating industry-wide public affairs efforts, communications strategies and messaging.

Director of Policy, EU
Facebook

Richard Allan joined Facebook in June 2009 to lead the company’s public policy work in Europe. Prior to joining Facebook, Richard was European Government Affairs Director for Cisco from September 2005.

Executive Vice President of Marketing
Nominum

Jon Shalowitz is the Executive Vice President of Marketing. Jon is responsible for defining and executing the company’s worldwide product and marketing strategy. Previously at Nominum, Jon was Vice President & General Manager of SKYE, a cloud-based DNS Services business unit.

European Projects Director
Optenet

Ana Luiza is an Attorney with specialization in Telecommunications Law from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas ICAI/ICADE (Madrid) and with an LL.M.  International Legal  Studies – Specialization in Human Rights Law  and Gender by the American University-Washington College of Law. (Washington DC – USA).

Chief Editor
Boodoo.ru

Ilya Golenopolsky graduated from Moscow State Teachers' Training College in 1985 and worked in Moscow State University, the Academy of National Economy, Moscow International University, and Moscow International Baccalaureate schools. For several years Ilya has been conducting inservice trainings at different IB schools, both in CIS and Europe. He has also authored an online course for Teleschool, the biggest online school in Russia. Video courses he has made have been broadcasted by Russia’s NTV + other channels. At the moment Ilya works as the Chief Editor for Russian social networking site, Boodoo.ru.

Managing Public Policy Counsel
Google

Pablo Chavez is a policy counsel to Google on various issues including privacy, content regulation, and internet censorship.  Prior to joining Google, Pablo worked in the U.S. Senate for four years.  Most recently, Pablo served as Chief Counsel to the Office of Senator John McCain.  In that capacity, Pablo had a broad portfolio of issues and responsibilities including several internet-focused matters such as the regulation of spyware, online content regulation, internet censorship, internet taxation, and privacy.

Director of External Affairs
Comcast Corporation

Prior to joining Comcast's Washington, DC office, Otero worked at Comcast's headquarters in Philadelphia where he focused on state and local government affairs. He has also served as a regional Vice President for the company in Michigan.

Executive Director
The Wireless Foundation

Kimberly A. Bassett is the Executive Director of The Wireless Foundation, the philanthropic arm of CTIA-The Wireless Association.In this role, she is responsible for the Foundation's charitable programs that enhance America's communities through wireless technology.

President
Entertainment Software Rating Board

Patricia Vance was appointed president of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) in November 2002. As president, she is responsible for overseeing and enforcing the computer and video game industry’s self-regulatory practices. This includes ensuring that video game consumers have effective tools with which to make educated purchase decisions.

Director of Consumer Advocacy and Privacy
AOL LLC

Holly Hawkins is the Director of Consumer Advocacy and Privacy for AOL LLC. Holly has over a decade of experience in forging best practices for AOL in the area of kids and teen protection. Holly is responsible for a wide range of consumer protection and risk management issues for AOL's brands (AOL, AIM, Netscape, CompuServe, MapQuest, MovieFone, Spinner, WinAmp, ICQ, Advertising.com) including child privacy and safety, content and community standards as well product moderation and enforcement standards.