Lawrence Williams
Lawrence Williams is a highly respected 20-year veteran of the European telecommunications industry. Williams is currently a managing director of German cable operator, PrimaCom Management GmbH. He has successfully led the development and roll-out of broadband services such as Digital Pay-TV, video on demand, as well as innovative Broadband Internet products. He has also held executive-level positions within Motorola GmbH.
Jack Gault
With more than 30 years of experience in the cable industry, Jack Gault is presently Chief Executive Officer of Cable Intel, Inc., a consulting services company he founded in 1999. His experience with Time Warner Cable and its predecessor company included the presidency of Manhattan Cable and most recently Executive Vice President of Time Warner Cable. He has also held senior positions at American Television and Communications Corporation (ATC) and Television Communications Corporation (TCC), and has received numerous industry awards and accolades.
Tingye Li
Dr. Li is a pioneer in optical communications and a past president of the Optical Society of America. He and his research teams have advanced lightwave technologies and systems, set records in information transmission, and seen much of their work deployed in telecommunications networks worldwide. He championed the introduction of wavelength multiplexing technology into AT&T’s network. Already, this technology has generated billions of dollars in savings on AT&T’s current network upgrade.
Among numerous awards Dr. Li has received are the IEEE 1975 W. R. G. Baker Prize, the IEEE 1979 David Sarnoff Award, and the OSA/IEEE 1995 John Tyndall Award. He was named an honorary professor at nine universities in China and was granted an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree by National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Dr. Li has been active in various professional societies, including IEEE/LEOS, OSA and AIP, and served as the 1995 President of the Optical Society of America. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Gerry White
Gerry White is the President of Forest Hill Technology a telecommunications and computing consulting company. Prior to this he was Director of Strategy & Competitive Intelligence within the Core Networks Division of Motorola Inc. where he was responsible for defining long term strategic product direction for IMS and switching product lines. White joined Motorola in 2001 through their acquisition of RiverDelta Networks and from 2001 through 2005 was responsible for technology planning within the IP Systems group. At River Delta Networks he served as Vice President and Chief Technical Officer and played a pivotal role in creating a carrier class CMTS/edge router to provide integrated VoIP and high speed data services to cable service providers. Prior to this he was Vice President and CTO of the Nortel Cable Group, a provider of voice and data equipment to the CATV market. While at Nortel, and its predecessors, Bay Networks and LanCity, White assumed a leading role in the cable industry's efforts to define, develop, and deploy standards-based voice and data technology.
White is the author of several patents and articles on data communications technology and holds a BSc. from University College in London.
Alan Willner
Alan Willner received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. He was a Postdoctoral Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories (Crawford Hill) and a Member of Technical Staff at Bellcore. He is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering - Systems at the University of Southern California. Professor Wilner is the Associate Director for the USC Center for Photonics Technology and is an Associate Director for Student Affairs for the NSF Engineering Research Center in Multimedia.
Professor Willner has received numerous national awards, including The Fullbright Foundation Senior Scholar Fellowship and has authored more than 200 publications. His research focuses in the areas of optical fiber communication systems, wavelength division multiplexing, photonics and wireless communication, optical amplification, optical networks, optical switching, and optical interconnections.
