MODERATOR:

With almost 35 years of spectrum management experience, Mark Gibson is responsible for developing domestic and international business opportunities for Comsearch.  In addition to leading Comsearch’s technical and business development efforts numerous wireless and spectrum-related products and services, he has led efforts to address spectrum sharing between Federal government and commercial users.  He leads CommScope’s CBRS efforts on the Spectrum Access System/Environmental Sensing Capability.  He is on the board of the Wireless Innovation Forum and is a co-chair of the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee, where he has also co-chaired working groups related to spectrum sharing and data exchange issues.  He has led Comsearch’s spectrum management efforts including the development of spectrum sharing analysis protocols and sharing criteria, as well as development of Comsearch’s engineering services and software products.  He has led Comsearch’s efforts in working with the American Hospital Association as their technical partner for WMTS frequency coordination.  He has authored several papers on spectrum sharing and relocation and has advised numerous wireless participants in their system design.  He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

PANELISTS:

Fabiano Chaves has over 10 years of experience in telecommunications industry, with activities spanning from research on wireless systems and networks to spectrum research, strategy, regulation and standardization. He is currently a Senior Standardization Specialist at Nokia, responsible for providing technical support and advice for the definition of Nokia's spectrum strategy, as well as executing the strategy by engaging on spectrum standardization and policy work with customers, in industry groups, in regional/international regulatory bodies such as ITU-R, CEPT, CITEL, and with national regulatory authorities such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He is a member of the FCC’s Advisory Committee for the 2023 World Radiocommunication Conference. Fabiano is author of several publications and patents related to spectrum usage and received his Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the "Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan" (ENS-Cachan), in Cachan, France.

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Brett Kilbourne is currently Vice President of Policy and General Counsel at the Utilities Technology Council (“UTC”).  He is primarily responsible for UTC’s advocacy activities before the Federal Communications Commission and other federal agencies on matters affecting the communications and information technology interests of UTC’s member utilities.  Utility broadband is one of UTC’s key policy issues, and UTC has been an active participant in various FCC proceedings, including the Connect America Fund which supports broadband deployment to unserved areas of America.   

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Chuck Lukaszewski is Vice President, Wireless Strategy & Standards in the CTO Office at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. He is CWNE #112. His responsibilities include driving roadmap & vision around future wireless products and services, and he leads the team that represents HPE in various wireless standards bodies and spectrum regulatory fora. Chuck has been engineering and deploying large-scale 802.11 networks for over 12 years, joining Aruba in 2007. He has built Wi-Fi systems in hospitals, warehouses, seaports, rail yards, manufacturing plants, arenas, stadiums and other complex RF environments.  At Aruba, he led the company’s global Customer Engineering team for six years before joining the CTO organization in 2013. He is the author of six books and design guides including Very High Density 802.11ac Networks and Outdoor MIMO Wireless Networks.

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Jennifer M. McCarthy, VP for Legal Advocacy at Federated Wireless, is responsible for Federated Wireless’s regulatory and government affairs agenda. Jennifer is a telecommunications regulatory attorney with over 25 years of experience in the wireless sector having held a variety of government affairs, business development, and operations positions for several of the industry’s leading technology innovators. 

Most recently, Jennifer was with MVP Capital, working with wireless spectrum license holders, TV and radio station owners, and other online content service providers on a variety of M&A projects. Prior to that, Jennifer was Senior Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Operations for NextWave Wireless Inc. and part of the executive management team of MediaFLO USA Inc., a subsidiary of QUALCOMM Incorporated, where she identified, purchased, and cleared the TV Channel 55 spectrum used to deploy the nation’s first network dedicated to the reception of mobile television programming and other multimedia services. She was also the head of QUALCOMM’s international government affairs team responsible for regulatory and international trade strategy at the International Telecommunications Union and related organizations. Early in her career, she worked with Freedom Technologies, Inc., a boutique Washington, D.C.-based telecommunications consulting firm and its associated law firm.

Ms. McCarthy has a B.A. in political science from Yale University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She is a member of both the California and Washington, DC Bars.