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California Broadband Initiative

California Broadband Task Force Working Groups

Build-Out Working Group

• Russ Gyurek, Working Group Chair
  Cisco
• Jeff Luong
  AT&T
• Tina Nerat
  NERATECH
• Davis Park
  Little Tokyo Service Center, a Community Development Corporation
• Milo Medin (CBTF Member)
  M2Z Networks
• Esther Northrup
  Cox Communications
• Brian Roberts
  City & County of San Francisco

Economic Development Working Group

• Jim Kirkland, Working Group Chair
  Covad Communications Group
• Joaquin Alvarado
  Institute for Next Generation Internet, San Francisco State University
• Supervisor David Finigan
  County of Del Norte
• Jeff Newman
  California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency
• Jose Rodriguez
  El Concilio Para Los Hispano-Hablantes
• Ellis Berns (CBTF Member)
  City of Mountain View
• Steve Monaghan
  County of Nevada
• Peter Pardee (CBTF Member)
  Hughes Network Systems

Education Working Group

• Stephanie Couch, Working Group Chair
  CENIC
• Ken Ikeda
  Bay Area Video Coalition
• Bob Campbell
  AT&T
• Bob Gravina
  Poway Unified School District
• Arlene Krebs
  California State University, Monterey Bay

Emerging Technologies and New Applications Working Group

• Bryan Martin, Working Group Chair (CBTF Member)
  8x8, Inc.
• Joaquin Alvarado
  Institute for Next Generation Internet, San Francisco State University
• Milo Medin (CBTF Member)
  M2Z Networks
• Steve Wright
  Salesforce.com Foundation
• Jon Taplin (CBTF Member)
  University of Southern California
• Dennis McSweeney
  Sprint Nextel
• Bill Reed
  Sempra Energy
• Larry Smarr (CBTF Member)
  California Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology

Health Care Working Group

• Jeff Newman, Working Group Chair
  California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency
• Ed Babakanian
  UCSD Healthcare
• Diana Dooley
  California Children's Hospital Association
• Barbara Johnston
  California Telemedicine & eHealth Center
• Judi Manis
  AT&T
• Peter Pardee (CBTF Member)
  Hughes Network Systems
• Christine Schmoeckel
  California Health and Human Services Agency
• Peter Yellowlees, M.D.
  UC Davis Medical Center
• Commissioner Rachelle Chong (CBTF Member)
  California Public Utilities Commission
• Denice Helwig
  Humboldt State University
• Margaret Laws
  California Health Care Foundation
• Cathryn Nation
  University of California
• Tom Riley
  Cal Capitol Group
• Terri Shaw
  The Children's Partnership

Public-Private Partnerships for Community Development Working Group

• Laura Efurd, Working Group Chair
  Community Technology Foundation of California
• Gwyneth Borden
  IBM
• April Kirkhart
  The Children's Partnership
• Ana Montes
  Latino Issues Forum
• Karen Wade
  Foundation for Successful Solutions Project T.E.C.H.
• Nick Young
  Intel
• Julia Lave Johnson
  Governor's Office of Planning and Research
• Elva Lima
  Verizon
• Kathleen KG Ouye
  Ouye-Mingram Consulting Partners
• Micheline Wilcoxen
  Community Technology Organizing Consortium

For information about the California Broadband Task Force, please contact:

• Anne Neville
  Manager, California Broadband Initiative
  California Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency
  (916) 323-5480
  aneville@bth.ca.gov