Candidate for
Democratic Party County Central Committee; County of Santa Clara; State Assembly District 22

EDUCATION OXFORD UNIVERSITY,

Ph.D. (D.Phil.) Economics 1986 (specializing in business reorganization prior to creation of Oxford School of Business)
Rhodes Scholar 1977, Balliol College
Co-Chair, Oxford Cambridge Events Committee

President, Princeton Club of Northern California

• Represent clients in a broad range of contract negotiations, arbitration, litigation and appeals.
• Represented consumer group that sought improvements in environmental and economic provisions of PG&E bankruptcy settlement; obtained modifications of agreement to address these goals.
• Represented former legislator who authored recall provision in California constitution, urging Supreme Court to recognize succession of lieutenant governor.
• Successfully amended injunction that would have made it possible to recall elected officials with less than a majority of votes

• Negotiated legal framework for innovative technology sharing alliance with chipset customer. Legal structure provided insulation from potential patent and antitrust claims, while acquiring access to critical software.
• Successfully defended federal regulatory mandate to require location technology in all new mobile phones by 2003.
• Initiated proactive corporate commitment to protect end user privacy from abuse of private location data; used privacy policy to build a competitive advantage.
• Designed and implemented corporate strategy to take SiRF's location-aware chip to wireless markets AERIE GROUP, Washington DC President 1992-2000 1987-1990
• As a legal consultant to the governments of Hawaii, Delaware, Arizona, West Virginia, and 6 other states, designed regulations for the introduction of telecom competition, including protections of privacy; terms of unbundling and interconnection; new technologies; service quality; universal service, including rural service and lifeline programs.
• Conducted federally mandated arbitrations among telephone companies for state governments
• Assisted state agencies in the conduct of regulatory litigation, including cross-examination of witnesses, presentation of direct and rebuttal testimony, preparation of briefs, drafting of appeals
• Prosecuted civil antitrust action against telephone company, leading to successful appeal establishing liability for vertical restraints imposed on suppliers by affiliates of rate-regulated entities
• Created forensic accounting tools that enable regulators to identify improper utility transactions.
• Testified for New York State Attorney General, achieving $965 million reduction in telephone rates and refunds to New York consumers and restructuring New York Telephone to promote more efficient and ethical transactions.
• Under UN contract, established legal and structural framework for Vietnamese finance ministry to prepare state enterprises for privatization. STATE OF MARYLAND, Baltimore Director of Telecommunications 1990-1992
• As the Public Service Commission's first director of telecommunications, built staff to support regulation of telephone utilities, managing planned headcount of 12.
• Prosecuted enforcement actions against utilities
• Enforced compliance with consumer safeguards, including protection of privacy and rights on telephone disconnection.
• Negotiated terms for first comprehensive review of telephone infrastructure costs.
• Streamlined FCC accounting rules as member of federal-state joint board.
• Saved state over $100,000 in annual enforcement costs by launching self-regulatory system for payphone provider compliance.

• Participated in all aspects of pre-trial defense of Silicon Valley companies accused of securities fraud in federal court including written discovery, taking and defending depositions and motion practice
• Vacated "gag order" in mandamus action against federal judge, authorizing disclosures that led to criminal indictment of major corporation.
• Prosecuted antitrust action against phone company. NYNEX-TELCO RESEARCH, Washington DC Managing Director, Consulting; Sr. VP 1986
• Headed team of 15 engineering and economic consultants who analyzed telecom markets for equipment and service suppliers. Restored consulting practice to profitability in less than 6 months, at which point legal restrictions forced NYNEX to leave this line of business.
• Subsequently assisted NYNEX in designing internal mechanisms to detect and report compliance with regulatory and accounting requirements. McKINSEY & CO., Washington, London Senior Associate 1983-1986
• Specialized in privatization, corporate restructuring, and valuation and development of high-tech businesses. US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington Counsel, Telecom Subcommittee 1981-1983
• Drafted AT&T divestiture bill and other laws relating to this industry, including the Telecommu¬nications for the Disabled Act.
• Organized numerous hearings into telecom competition, privacy, and data protection.
• Represented committee members in U.S. v. AT&T, achieving 13 modifications to consent decree. O'MELVENY AND MYERS, Los Angeles Associate 1979-1981
• Specialized in securities compliance, antitrust, labor, and regulatory litigation, including written discovery, taking and defending depositions and motion practice.
• Managed Hart Scott Rodino compliance in telecom merger
• Prosecuted condemnation appeals before the General Accounting Office
• Conducted depositions in employment law and highway safety actions