STRATEGIC GLOBAL SUMMIT FOR E-COMMERCE SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Education and Professional activities: Universidad de Buenos Aires: Lawyer, 1986. University of Texas, Academy of American and International Law, Southwestern Legal Foundation, Dallas, 1992. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Postgraduate Program on Business Law, School of Law, 1989-1990. Professor of Business Law, School of Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires (1997- present). Harvard Law School, Program of Instructions for Lawyers, Advanced Negotiation Workshop, (November 1998). Partner of Brons & Salas Law Firm since 1996. Practice Areas: Contract Law, Corporate Law, Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation, Telecommunications.
Publications: “Summons to companies organized abroad”, published in the “Companies and Insolvency Proceedings” Magazine (N° 15 – March/April – 2002) Ad Hoc - Villela Editor. “Amendments to the Argentinean Reorganisation and Bankruptcy Law”, published in “International Business Lawyer” (Vol. 30 N°4 – April 2002). “Conveniencia de regular la actuación de los administradores de hecho en las sociedades comerciales” – VIII Corporate Law Argentine Congress and IV Corporate and Company Law Latin American Congress, Rosario, Argentina, October 2001 I° Commercial Law Argentine-Spanish Congress, Valencia, Spain, September 2001. “Comercio Electrónico. Aspectos generales normativos y contractuales” (E-commerce: electronic commerce, general regulatory and contractual aspects), El Derecho, July, 2001. “Apuntes sobre la nueva ley” (Oultine of the new law), published in “Leasing Herramientas para crecer” (Leasing- A tool for growing), Comunicarte SRL Publishing House, March 2001. “El directorio en las sociedades anónimas” (The Board of Directors in corporations, in honor of Professor Carlos S. Odriozola), Ad-Hoc Publishing House, 1999. Chapter’s title “Administradores de hecho” (De facto Directors). “Cajas de seguridad” (Safe Deposit boxes), La Ley, 1997. “El ahora nominado contrato de Leasing” (Leasing contract), La Ley, 1996. Chapter in the book “Bank Security and Other Credit Enhancement Methods”, Chapter on Argentina, 1995, published by Kluwer Law International.”Comparative Law - Yearbook of International Business”, Volume 15, by the Center for International Legal Studies. “Bankruptcy and Insolvency. The Rights and Remedies of Foreign Creditors in Argentina”, 1990.
Lectures and Seminars (as lecturer): “Legal Challenges for the 21st Century” – Fourth Latin American Regional Conference, International Bar Association, Cusco, Perú, 24-26 April 2002. “Conveniencia de regular la actuación de los administradores de hecho en las sociedades comerciales”– VIII Corporate Law Argentine Congress and IV Corporate and Company Law Latin American Congress, Rosario, Argentina, October 2001 - I° Commercial Law Argentine-Spanish Congress, Valencia, Spain, September 2001. “Doing Business in Argentina”, Center for International Studies, Hotel Crown Plaza-Pitter, Salzburg, Austria, June 2001. “Latin America: Argentina”, A Legal Guide to International E-Commerce, American Conference Institute, New York, United States, April 2001. “Doing Business in Latin America”, Interlaw Regional Meeting, Santiago, Chile, March, 2001. “Internet Workshops”, Internet and Law II Seminar, El Derecho y Microjuris.com, Buenos Aires, November 2000. “E-Commerce: general, normative and contractual aspects”, Internet and Law I Seminar, Fundación Global y El Derecho, Mar del Plata, September, 2000. “E-commerce: legal aspects”, Buenos Aires Association of Lawyers and IT Cenit, Buenos Aires, September, 2000. “Legal aspects of E-commerce”, Seminar for Special Law Programs, Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, August, 2000. “E-Commerce: Legal Framework”, Institute for International Research, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March, 2000. “E-Commerce: general, normative and contractual aspects”, Internet and Law I Seminar, El Derecho, Buenos Aires, June, 2000. “E-Commerce: Legal Framework”, Abogados Internos de Empresa, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May, 2000. “International business transactions”, American Conference Institute, Chicago, United States, November, 1999. E-Commerce Americas “Addressing legal and privacy issues”, American Chamber of Commerce, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June, 1999. Lecturer of the Basic Training and Instruction Program “Los medios alternativos de solución de controversias comerciales” (Alternative Methods to Solve Business Disputes), ITESM, World Trade Center, Monterrey, Mexico, International Mediation Center, 1996.
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Federico Brandt is admitted to the Bar in Argentina (1997). He obtained his JD at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1997) and a Master in Law (LL.M) in Banking, Corporate and Finance Law, at Fordham University School of Law, New York (2001).
He has advised local and international corporations in a wide-range of matters in connection with e-business ventures. Among the various matters he has dealt with, it is worth mentioning his active participation in the development of the e-commerce platform of Musimundo, the Argentine largest chain of music retail shops.
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Alan E. Brill is Senior Managing Director of Kroll Associates, and founded the firm's global High-technology Investigation practice. He has an international reputation in the areas of computer/communication security, and technology crime investigation. At Kroll, his work has ranged from large-scale information security reviews for multi-billion dollar corporations, to criminal investigations of computer hackers, frauds on the Internet, identity theft, misappropriation of intellectual property, as well as phone. cellular, and VoiceMail frauds.
Prior to joining Kroll, he was Director of the Information Systems and Information Security Bureau of the New York Department of Investigation, where he served as the senior government official with responsibility for information security, and as a Deputy Inspector General in the New York City government.
Alan Brill was also Director of Professional Services for Edward Yourdon's Yourdon Consulting Group. His work there involved the extension of the systems design methodologies of Structured Analysis and Structured Design, and consultation with major government and defense firms to implement these techniques. During this period, his internal security and control technique formed the basis for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration standard for design of secure systems.
At the international accounting firm of Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young) he served as Senior Manager in the information security practice, and was the co-designer of the firm's Data Systems Security Review practice. While at E&W, he served as the public accounting profession's representative to the EDP Auditors Foundation Professional Certification Board, and helped to establish the criteria and examination for the Certified Information Systems Auditor credential. He has also served as system designer at Chase Manhattan Bank, and was on the design team for the Apollo Project Ground Support System at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.
In the United States Army, he served as a Project Officer on the Army General Staff during the Vietnam war, as an advisor on computer/information security policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and as military liaison to the New York City Police Department. He retired with the rank of Major.
Mr. Brill has served as a visiting faculty member in the computer crime investigation programs of the United States Secret Service, the FBI Academy, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Counsel. He holds BA and MBA degrees from New York University, and is completing his doctoral studies at Pace University. He is an honor graduate of both the United States Army Command and General Staff College and the National Defense University's National Security Management Program. He has also lectured for the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His ability to explain the underlying causes of high-tech crimes and to devise practical preventive measures has made him one of the most popular speakers at international business conferences. He also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center for International Financial Crime Studies at the University of Florida's Levin School of Law.
Mr. Brill is the author of five books in the field of information security and management, and of dozens of articles that have appeared in publications ranging from Computerworld to the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. His latest books are Cybercrime and Security (Oceana Press) and The Accountant's Handbook of Fraud and Commercial Crime Prevention (AICPA). He was featured on the CBS News magazine "60 Minutes" when he was interviewed by Mike Wallace on the subject of Internet security. He has also appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morning America CNBC, MSNBC CBC, BBC and CNN His work was featured in the U.S. News & World Report article entitled "Corporate Spy Wars." . He holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) credentials.
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Christie Brockhage is the regional manager for the Newport Beach bureau of Business Wire. The company electronically disseminates full-text news releases simultaneously to the news media, the Internet, online services and databases, and the global investment community. Christie began her career with Business Wire in August of 1996 as district manager and was promoted to regional manager in January of 2002.
Prior to joining Business Wire, she was the branch manager in Atlanta for Adia Personnel Services, now called Adecco, one of the world’s largest personnel services. Prior to Adia Personnel, Christie worked in sales and marketing positions for Trammell Crow, a real estate company, and with Smart Start Technologies, an advertising company. Christie’s experience encompasses client sales, client consulting and development, marketing, survey programs, market analysis and research, seminar and event planning, advertising and public relations in a variety of industries including broadcast, television, advertising, real estate, employment, public relations and investor relations.
Christie graduated with a BA in Mass Media Communications from The Ohio State University.
Christie is actively involved in many Orange County professional organizations, including Public Relations Society of America, American Electronics Association, International Association of Business Communicators, Legal Marketing Association and the Business Marketing Association. She currently serves on the board for the Orange County chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute as the vice president, programs chair and has served in the past as membership chair on the 2002-2003 and 2001-2002 board, communication chair on the 2000-2001 board, annual report competition chair in 1999-2000 and was a director at large on the 1998-1999 NIRI board. She also served on the board of the American Marketing Association from 1997-1998 as the vice president of marketing.
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Professor William H. Byrnes, IV, a U.S. attorney, is the Founder of the Walter H. & Dorothy B. Diamond International Tax Program, hosted at St Thomas University School of Law (Miami). Professor Byrnes is a Visiting Professor of International Taxation to the Masters program of the Faculty of Commerce, Law, and Management at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) and before that was the coordinator and lecturer of the International Tax Masters of Commerce program at RAU (Johannesburg).
Professor Byrnes pioneered distributive legal education through creating the first Internet delivered legal degree in the United States, offered by a School of Law accredited by the American Bar Association. In 1994, he created the three and five day training program International Taxation and Offshore Financial Centers, partnering since 1997 with EuroMoney-Institutional Investor, which he has taught in-house to banks, exchanges, and governments, in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Miami, Lisbon, Mauritius, Dominica, and South Africa. Also, he has chaired, as well as presented at, many corporate and private banking conferences globally, including Malaysia, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, India and South Africa. His presentations have included topics as diverse as forecasting economics of B2B integrated supply chains to the discriminatory US implementation and affect of transfer pricing regulations to Indian/Pacific Rim States.
Besides authoring and editing several case books for the program published in cooperation with Kluwer Law International such as Principles of International Taxation and also Offshore Financial Centers, he co-authored the book Tax Reform for South Africa and served as Managing Editor of the Exchange Control Encyclopaedia, which was amalgamated into Butterworths’ Exchange Control Encyclopaedia. For Thomson Tax, he is the author for the US Chapter for International Tax Systems and Planning Techniques, a series by Roy Saunders and Miles Dean published in loose-leaf and on Checkpoint. He served as an editor to Walter Diamond of the Diamond loose-leaf series: Tax and Trade Briefs, Matthew Bender (New York) as well as an editor to Barry Spitz for the Lexicon in the Butterworths’ loose-leaf Spitz’s Tax Havens Encyclopaedia. He is Co-Author of the forthcoming loose-leaf series, Offshore Trusts & Companies Laws, Analysis and Tax Planning. He was a consultant editor for Kluwer Law International (London) for many years before he was a consultant editor for Richmond Law & Tax. He also worked on the International Fiscal Association’s (IFA) methodology of categorization of taxation.
Before full time teaching, Professor Byrnes was a senior manager then associate director, international tax, Coopers and Lybrand, which subsequently amalgamated into Price Waterhouse. His primary clients at Coopers & Lybrand were multinational investment and also private banks, insurance companies, technology companies, and company service providers. Over the last ten years, he has lived in Asia, Europe, Africa and The Americas.
He serves on the board of various 501(c)(3) tax exempt charities and in 1989 founded the Last Hope Recovery Center (d.b.a. Abstract Bookshop & Café) in New Orleans, a forty person residential center dealing with dual diagnosis. The Abstract has been mentioned in several press articles, one of which received the American journalism award for its pictorial portrayal of the suffering of residents with AIDS.
He holds a degree in Political Economics of the law track of the Murphy Institute of Tulane University and a Juris Doctorate from Loyola University School of Law. His LL.M., specialized in European Business and Taxation, is from the University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law and the Europa Institute. His fellowship was granted by the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in conjunction with the University of Amsterdam after presenting his thesis in the field of inter-company cross-border pricing.
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Robert Caulfield is a co-founder of TrustCommerce and is responsible for the vision and operational duties for the company. He has over twelve years of experience in Information Technology. As an Internet Business Developer, Mr. Caulfield provided Internet solutions for hundreds of organizations. He was involved with online business plan development, site maps, website design and development, shopping carts, back-end databases, payment processing, system administration and security services, co-location facilities, access lines, and more. His years of experience in the field of e-commerce have made him an authority on the subject. The Industry Standard named him "a Grandfather of E-Commerce" when he was 29 years of age. Besides hundreds of e-business site credits, Mr. Caulfield designed and implemented the first U.S. City's e-commerce platform for the City of Los Angeles and he has testified in front of the U.S. Senate as an expert witness.
Mr. Caulfield has consulted or designed e-commerce projects for The Association of Internet Professionals, Arthur Anderson, Classmates Online, DotPlanet, DSMax, E-commerce Solution Consultants, Ernst & Young, Fed Ex, General Motors, Home Shopping Network, Imperial Bank, Los Angeles Convention Center, Lycos, MandrakeSoft, Motivational Fulfillment and Packaging Services, Motive Communications, and PriceWaterHouseCoopers, USI, Viawest Networks and World Marketing Alliance.
Mr. Caulfield has designed, implemented, secured and/or hosted sites for AASI Aircraft, Castle Rock Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Fox Sports, Fox Interactive, Fox for Children, Jersey Films, Paramount Pictures (including over 100 movie sites such as Independence Day, Mission Impossible, Truman Show, Star Trek: Insurrection Star Trek: First Contact, and Titanic), Pan American Bank, and Yahoo!, Inc. He has worked with over thirty television shows, such as, Cops and Seinfeld.
His other clients have included, Bordan, Cal Water, Comcentral, Dakota Media, Dream Castle, FirstDebit, In-n-Out Burger, LA County Arts Commission, Lawman Armor Corp., Online Direct, Online DA, Overboost, New York Board of Real Estate, Newsstand.com, Pacific Design Center, Team Diamond, and Walter Foster Publishing.
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Giorgio Corno practices law in the north of Italy (Milan and Monza), as an avvocato. Specialised in bankruptcy, commercial and company law, and related connections with internet law, Giorgio Corno is the author of “Practical guide on civil procedure law”, published by Cedam (third edition - 1999), and of several written contributions.
Member of IBA, Section J as well as of committee member of Laworld, a network of commercial law firms around the world, Giorgio Corno frequently lectures on the areas of practice in domestic and international conferences.
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Antonio Duarte joined the law firm of Lara & Lara in Bogotá in June 1977 and became part of the Raisbeck & Raisbeck law firm in Bogotá in September 1978, when these two law firms merged into one sole law firm, together with the Rueda & Rueda law firm, to form Raisbeck, Lara, Rodriguez & Rueda. The latter subsequently merged into the Baker & McKenzie law firm January 1, 1979.
Antonio Duarte has had extensive experience in areas such as Oil and Mining, Construction Contracts, Corporate Reorganizations, Foreign Investment and Exchange Control Matters, Administrative Contracts (i.e. tender proceedings, negotiations and execution of contracts with the government entities, acting on behalf of private multinationals); Antonio Duarte is one of the partner for Colombia in charge of managing and coordinating the infraestructure projects and mergers and acquisition practices and is one of the partners in charge of the labor department, having specialized in representing multinational companies in matters pertaining to international payroll and transfer of employees to different jurisdictions and negotiating settlements relative thereto. Antonio Duarte has also had extensive experience in franchise and license agreements and Joint Ventures. He is currently the partner heading the e-commerce and environmental practice groups of the Bogotá Office.
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R. Scott Feldmann’s practice is devoted to intellectual property and technology law, especially applied within the context of software, computers and the Internet. Scott has successfully obtained temporary restraining orders in both federal and state court on matters involving copyright infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, trademark infringement, trade libel, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair competition. Scott is experienced in all aspects of trial preparation, and often advises general counsel on intellectual property enforcement matters, defensive and litigation strategy, and settlement negotiations.
Prior to practicing law, Scott was a Captain in the U.S. Air Force, where he was assigned to be a test director of “Top Secret- Eyes Only” electronic warfare and “Star Wars” programs.
Scott obtained his law degree from the University of California- Berkeley, where he was on the Moot Court Board. He also holds a master’s of science in electrical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and a master’s in systems management from the University of Southern California. His undergraduate degree in electrical engineering was received with honors from Vanderbilt University.
Scott has given speeches by invitation on Internet law, e-commerce, information security and privacy law to a variety of organizations, including the American Corporate Counsel Association, UCLA, the American Electronic Association and the Orange County Bar. He regularly is asked for comment on those topics by the business press, including Forbes, Fortune, and The Orange County Register. The Wall Street Journal has published both an op-ed by him on the philosophy of anti-technology terrorism, and listed him as a source in its piece, “The Spy Next Door.”, Counsel, Crowell & Moring LLP
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David A. Gauntlett is the principal of Gauntlett & Associates in Irvine, California (www.gauntlettlaw.com). Mr. Gauntlett represents policyholders in insurance coverage disputes regarding complex business litigation and intellectual property matters. He is lead counsel in intellectual property coverage disputes pending in over 30 states throughout the United States and is also responsible for many precedent-making insurance coverage cases involving patent, trademark and copyright infringement as well as trade secret misappropriation and unfair competition claims. He also serves as an expert witness on insurance coverage issues and represents policyholders and their counsel on a range of fee dispute issues with their insurers.
Mr. Gauntlett has written extensively on insurance coverage issues and his book, entitled Insurance Coverage of Intellectual Property Assets, is published by Aspen Law & Business, © 1999. Mr. Gauntlett is a member of the American Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association, and was Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association's 1995-96 Tort and Insurance Practice Section Committee on Intellectual Property Law, and served as Vice-Chair for 2001-02. He served as the Newsletter Editor of this committee from 1995 through 2001. He has been the Chair of the American Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Section, Special Committee on Insurance since 1998; he is Co-Chair of the Computer/Technology Subcommittee of the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee and has also served as Vice-Chair for the Litigation Section’s Insurance Coverage Committee from 1998 to present. In January 2001 he was selected as Vice Chair of the Intellectual Property Owners Association’s newly formed Insurance Coverage Committee.
Mr. Gauntlett is a nationally recognized speaker and has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences throughout the country on the topic of insurance coverage for Intellectual Property/Antitrust Lawsuits. Mr. Gauntlett has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Boalt Hall, where he taught a class in the Fall of 2001 entitled, Insurance Coverage for Intellectual Property, Antitrust and E Commerce.
Mr. Gauntlett is a 1979 graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, where he served as a member of the California Law Review. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Irvine, Magna Cum Laude, in 1976.
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Mark Grossman is a shareholder and chairs Becker & Poliakoff’s Technology Law Group. He concentrates his practice exclusively in this growing area of the law representing major corporations, financial institutions, and medium-sized businesses of all types on issues ranging from outsourcing contract negotiation, website development and online contracting to technology procurement, e-commerce issues, intellectual property rights on the Internet, vendor liability, raising venture capital, and technology litigation. He also represents computer and technology companies such as software developers, Internet service providers, computer consultants, as well as government agencies.
Mr. Grossman is one of the country’s most prolific writers and foremost authorities in this complex area of the law. As such, he has appeared on “Nightline” and has spoken at numerous high-profile, national, and international conferences on cutting edge legal issues relating to computers, technology, the Internet and electronic commerce.
Mr. Grossman is also the “TechLaw” columnist for the Miami Herald. His “TechLaw” column appears every week in the Miami Herald’s Business Monday section and in other newspapers throughout the country. You can find a complete “TechLaw” archive at: http://www.ecomputerlaw.com/article_archives.htm .
Before writing for the Herald, for many years Mr. Grossman wrote the nationally syndicated weekly “Cyber Law” column. That column was published by newspapers including South Florida’s Daily Business Reviews, Washington’s Legal Times, and the Texas Lawyer. Mr. Grossman has also written for PC World Magazine and The Recorder of San Francisco. His articles have also appeared in the University of Texas School of Law Review of Litigation and the Florida Bar’s Computer Law Journal.
Mr. Grossman recently co-authored a chapter called “Web Development Agreements” in the American Bar Association’s recently published book called, Internet Law for the Business Lawyer.
Mr. Grossman was appointed a subject matter expert to the State of Florida’s Internet Task Force, is on the Advisory Board of BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law Newsletter and the Board of Editors of “The Internet Newsletter,” a publication of Law Journal Newsletters.
Mr. Grossman is also the General Counsel for the CIO Counsel of South Florida.
A graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook (B.A., with high honors, 1979) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., cum laude, 1982), Mr. Grossman is a member of the Florida Bar and is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida.
He is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest level attainable, and is a member of the Florida Bar’s Computer Law Committee. Further, Mr. Grossman was chosen by his peers to appear in the 2003-2004 edition of The Best Lawyers in America (www.bestlawyers.com). This is an honor awarded in an election in which only other lawyers may vote.
Mr. Grossman lectures throughout the world; his recent appearances include presentations at COMDEX in Las Vegas, chairing the American Conference Institute’s “Advanced Forum on Application Service Providers,” the keynote address at the 20th Annual United States Department of Energy’s Computer Security Conference, Georgetown University Law Center’s Advanced Computer Law Institute and speeches to the American Corporate Counsel Association, the keynote address at LegalTech, and numerous others.
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Jose Juan Mendez-Cortes received his law degree from the Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City, being admitted to practice law throughout the Mexican Republic Since 1994. Obtained his master of law degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center in New Hampshire. He is member of the Mexican Bar Association and actually is the coordinator of Industrial and Intellectual Property Committee of National Corporate Lawyer Association (ANADE). He specializes in industrial property matters in general, patents and trademarks, author rights and electronic commerce. Former local partner of Baker & McKenzie and current partner of Alegria, Mendez & Fernandez Wong, S.C..
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Pauline Reich - American lawyer and Associate Professor, Waseda University School of Law, Tokyo, Japan. Contributing editor, Japanese Cyberlaw developments, World eBusiness Law Reports (online publication); forthcoming chapter on Internet and E-mail use in the workplace, to appear in WORLD ONLINE BUSINESS LAW (Oceana); Editor, CIVIL PROCEDURE IN JAPAN, 2nd edition (Juris); Co-editor, LAW AND BUSINESS IN JAPAN (New Edition); other publications on Cyberlaw in the United States, Asia, worldwide.
During sabbatical year (2000-2001), Visiting Scholar at Boalt Hall School of Law and Santa Clara University School of Law (Cyberlaw, Internet-based Legal Research), University of New South Wales, University of Technology Sydney and Australasian Legal Information Institute, Sydney, Australia and International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Former Vice Chair, Legal Services Committee, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan; Former Co-chair, Asia-Pacific Subcommittee, American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution; Former Vice Chair, International Education Committee, American Bar Association Section of International Law and Practice; former Japan member, Association for Asian Studies Committee on Asian Law
Current member: Inter-Pacific Bar Association; Foreign Women Lawyers Association (Tokyo); Japan chapter, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Teaching and consulting areas: Cyberlaw; Cybercrime; Internet-based Legal, Business and Government Research.
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Christoph Rittweger’s practice covers both domestic and international information technology, intellectual property and data privacy counseling. Such counseling involves the protection of commercial dealings in all intellectual property rights, IT-outsourcing contracts, software development, licensing, maintenance and support as well as distribution contracts, turn-key-provider contracts, joint venture agreements as well as website audits and data privacy audits.
Mr. Rittweger acts extensively for global companies in the computer, electronics and telecommunication industry. Currently he is advising one of the world's largest diversified companies on the implementation of a worldwide data privacy code of conduct and on the setting up of a global research center in Germany. He recently advised a major European bank on the outsourcing of its IT infrastructure and counseled a number of clients on technology joint ventures in Europe, the U.S. and Japan.
Mr. Rittweger authored “The Protection of well-known and famous marks under US law, under EC law and under German law” and numerous other IT-related articles. Mr. Rittweger is a frequent speaker on IT related issues and has spoken at numerous seminars.
Christoph Rittweger studied German law at the University of Munich an obtained a doctorate degree in 1996. He worked as a scientific scholar at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Patent-, Copyright- and Unfair Competition Law prior to joining the Frankfurt office of Baker & McKenzie in 1998. Christoph Rittweger worked at Baker & McKenzie’s San Francisco office before he transferred to the firm’s Munich office, where he became partner in 2002. Mr. Rittweger was admitted to the German bar in 1997 and passed the California Bar Exam in 2002.
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Kiyoshi Tsuru’s is a partner at BELLO, GUZMAN, MORALES & TSURU, S.C., with
his practice including Intellectual Property, Privacy and Cyberlaw. He is a
panelist for the Arbitration and Mediation Center, Uniform Dispute
Resolution Policy, with the WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION
(WIPO),2000–to date. Previously, he was an Intellectual Property Attorney;
Head of the New Technologies and Cyberlaw Team for SOTO, ESCALANTE Y
PONTONES, S.C. ,1998-2001.
Mr. Tsuru’s education includes the Harvard Law School, Berkman Center for
Internet and Society, Internet Law Program (Free Speech, Privacy,
Copyright), and The George Washington University Law School,Washington,
D.C., LL.M. Intellectual Property Law. He was a recipient of the 2002 Thelma
Weaver Memorial Award, granted to the foreign LL.M. who has contributed the
most to the intellectual and professional life of the Law School, its
faculty and its students. His education also includes: the workshop for
arbitrators at the World Intellectual Property Organization, in Geneva,
Switzerland, 2000, the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in
1999-2000, Mexico City, Mexico where he received his diploma in Intellectual
Property Law. Prior he earned his law degree from the Universidad
Iberoamericana Law School in Mexico City, 1992-1997.
His advisory and academic activities include: member of the WHOIS PRIVACY
Steering Group, ICANN. 2003, member of the Advisory Group established by the
ICANN Evolution and Reform Committee to issue recommendations on the new
Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO), 2002. member of The
NIC-MEXICO Advisory Committee, Director of the Program for Advanced Legal
Studies in Intellectual Property Law and High Technology Law, 2003, ITAM,
Mexico City, Visiting Scholar, The George Washington University Law School,
Project: Intellectual Property, Privacy and Free Speech in the Digital
Realm, 2002-2003. Washington D.C., Professor, Universidad Anahuac and Centro
Francisco de Vittoria: Master in the Law of Telecommunications and New
Technologies, 2001- to date, Mexico/Spain. Professor, ITAM: Diploma in Legal
Aspects of Information Technologies. 2002, Mexico.
Mr Tsuru's research includes working as a Research Assistant for Professor
Dawn C. Nunziato (George Washington University). Research Project: ICANN and
Internet Governance,working as a Research Assistant for Professor Robert
Brauneis (George Washington University). Research Project: Geographic
Location of Internet Addresses. His publications include: World Online
Business Law Treatise (WOBL), Chapter on Mexican e-Commerce Law, Oceana
Publications, 2003 Position Paper, ITAM, A proposal for protecting personal data under Mexican
Law, presented to the House or Representatives, Mexico (co-Author).
ICANN Unplugged: Towards an effective coordination of the Domain Name
System, 2002. Monthly contributions to the periodical "Enterate", on
Information Law and Intellectual Property Law topics, including a
contribution regarding legislation on e-commerce/privacy/e-signature 2002.
Risky Business: A comparative study of Business Method Patent Protection in
Europe, Japan and the United States, 2001. A monthly Column in the magazine
"Cómputo y Negocios/Capital Digital", relating to Intellectual Property Law
and Cyberlaw topics, 2001. His professional thesis was entitled "The
Protection of Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits in Intellectual Property
Law". Motion for publication granted by the Universidad Iberoamericana Law
School, 1999. Special mention awarded to the research project, 1999.
His professional associations encompass: Intellectual Property Constituency
(IPC) of ICANN. Vice-President. 2002,American Bar Association (ABA),
Mexican Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association
(AIPLA). Chair, ICANN Working Group, International Association for the
Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI). Representative of Mexico, Q160
(ICANN Task Force), Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual
Property (AMPPI), Representative, Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC)
of the Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO) of ICANN. 2002,
Member of the Task Force created for analyzing the impacts of the adoption
of the Nice Convention by Mexico. 2000-2001, Member of the Task Force
created to implement Integrated Circuit Layout Design Legislation. 1997.
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Mozelle W. Thompson was sworn in as a Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission December 17, 1997.
Mr. Thompson previously held the position of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of the Treasury where he was responsible for overseeing domestic spending and credit policies, including the operations of the Federal Financing Bank and the Office of Government Financing. Mr. Thompson was also responsible for creating the Office of Privatization, which among its activities provides guidance on the privatization of federal assets and operations, and for developing the financial assistance plan for the District of Columbia. Mr. Thompson was initially appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary in August 1993, and served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary from April 1996 until his appointment to the Commission.
Prior to joining the Treasury Department, Mr. Thompson served as Acting Executive Director and General Counsel to the New York State Finance Agency and its four sister corporations. Mr. Thompson also was an attorney with the New York firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom.
Mr. Thompson is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School. He also holds an M.P.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. After graduating law school, Mr. Thompson served as law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge William M. Hoeveler in Miami, Florida. He has been on the faculties of the Woodrow Wilson School and Fordham Law School, and has been an Irvine Foundation Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School.
Mr. Thompson currently serves as Chairman of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Consumer Policy Committee where he also leads the United States delegation. Mr. Thompson was past president of the International Marketing Supervision Network (IMSN), an association of international consumer protection enforcement agencies.
Mr. Thompson has been active in a number of professional and civic organizations, including the Association of Black Princeton Alumni and the Executive Board of Practicing Attorneys for Law Students, a mentoring organization assisting African-American and Latino law students. He is presently Vice President of the Columbia College Alumni Association, and is a member of the bar in New York State and the District of Columbia.
Mr. Thompson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is the son of Charles and Eiko Suzaki Thompson of West Babylon, New York.
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Thibault Verbiest obtained his degree in Law at the University of Brussels and has advanced degrees in Economic Law (University of Brussels) and in International Entertainment Law (University of San Diego).
He is a lawyer in information technology law, partner with the firm "Ulys" based in Brussels and Paris, and attorney at the Bars of Brussels and Paris.
He is author of many publications (e.g. “Internet Gambling Report" or the book “Le Droit de l’internet et de la société de l’information”, Larcier, Brussels).
Thibault Verbiest teaches e-commerce law at the Law Schools of University of Paris X Nanterre and Paris I Sorbonne. He is also Chairman of the “Internet Rights Observatory”, a Belgian federal agency.
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