CQR 2007 Keynote Speakers

G Keith Cambron, President and CEO, AT&T Labs

  

G. KEITH CAMBRON is President and Chief Executive Officer – AT&T Labs, Inc., AT&T's applied research and development subsidiary.

Keith has a broad range of knowledge in telecommunications networks, technology, and design, and experience ranging from circuit board and software design to the implementation of large public networks. His expertise extends to the areas of switching, call processing, line and trunk signaling, SS7, VF and RF transmission, system testing, telco operations and traffic engineering, network reliability, and performance analysis. He has been involved in testing and introducing the ‘first in the US’ new technology:

Before the recent merger with AT&T, he served as the president and CEO of SBC Laboratories, Inc. This role enabled him to bridge the innovation in the laboratories to bottom-line results for SBC companies. He has been profiled in Telephony and America's Network, and was published in Proceedings of the IEEE Community Network Conference of 1992 and 1995. He received Telephony Magazine’s Network Design and Implementation Award for Fiber in the Loop in 1995.

He received his B.S.E.E. from the University of Missouri, and his M.S. in systems management from the University of Southern California. He is a retired Commander in the United States Naval Reserve. Keith is a senior member of IEEE.

Steven Malphrus, Staff Director for Management, U.S. Federal Reserve Board

As Staff Director for Management, Steve Malphrus serves as Chief of Staff and is responsible for the management and operations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

A native of Washington State, Mr. Malphrus studied economics, finance and banking at the undergraduate and graduate level.  He has worked in banking, served as a university professor and as a military officer.  During his career with the Federal Reserve, he has developed expertise in banking supervision and regulation, economic and financial statistics, information technology, reserve bank operations and payments systems, and risk management and financial stability.  He has also served as a bank examiner and on the staff of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC).

Mr. Malphrus served as Chairman of the Financial Sector Group of the President’s Council on Year 2000 Conversion and now represents the Federal Reserve Board on Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security Committees.  As a result of his understanding of the role of telecommunications in the financial sector, he was appointed as a member of NRIC VII by former FCC Chairman Michael Powell.  In 2004, Steve articulated the financial sector’s need for assured circuit diversity to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC).  NSTAC advises the President of the United States on matters relating to Telecommunications.  As a result of his efforts, NSTAC commissioned the Financial Services Task Force, which produced an extensive analysis and recommended a joint study to address in more detail circuit diversity.  To demonstrate his commitment to the NSTAC project, Steve committed funding, professional staff time and established a partnership with the Telecommunication’s Industry CIO Council in the creation of the National Diversity Assurance Initiative (NDAI).   The National Diversity Initiative Report was recently published.  

Steve serves on the Board of Advisors of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Georgetown University and was awarded the prestigious BITS/Financial Services Roundtable Leadership Award for his extensive contributions to the financial services industry.  

A recipient of CQR2006 Chairman Award, Mr. Malphrus is cited for for championing communications network reliability as a finance industry stakeholder, for his marked professionalism in engaging industry experts, and for advocating network reliability as top priority before the highest levels of government.

Dick Lynch, Executive Vice President & CTO, Verizon Wireless


Dick Lynch is executive vice president and chief technical officer for Verizon Wireless, the premier wireless provider with the nation's most reliable wireless network. Lynch is responsible for the technology, architecture, planning, design and operation of the company's coast-to-coast wireless voice and data network covering more than two million square-miles. Under his leadership, Verizon Wireless launched the nation's first wireless broadband wide-area network.

In his prior assignment, he was executive vice president and chief technical officer for Bell Atlantic Mobile. Lynch has been at the forefront of wireless data solutions, starting with Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) in 1995 when he led Bell Atlantic Mobile’s build of one of the largest CDPD networks in the country--delivering the first  application for mobile data for public safety and ultimately paving the way for mass market  wireless data services. He led the industry to advance Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) into a commercial wireless offering, launching the nation's first commercial CDMA service.  In 2004, Lynch again drove technology direction with the decision to deploy EVDO service broadly throughout Verizon Wireless’ national footprint.  Building on these core technology decisions, he has led the implementation and widespread adoption of key innovative services including wireless broadband access via laptop and PDAs, V CAST Music (a rich-featured, over-the-air music download service), IP-based Push-to-Talk, and turn-by-turn navigation on cell phones.

Lynch is a Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).   He has served as a charter member of the executive board of the CDMA Development Group, an organization responsible for promotion, advancement, deployment and future developments of CDMA.  Lynch is a member of the Federal Communications Commission's Technical Advisory Council. He has also been awarded patents for advances in the area of wireless technology.

In the early years of wireless data development, Lynch served as chairman of the Wireless Data Forum, an organization dedicated to promoting the benefits of wireless data to end-user communities, the telecommunications industry, the media, and the information technology industry. Under his guidance, the forum was restructured and affiliated with the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association to insure focus on its efforts within the larger wireless industry. For this accomplishment, Lynch was honored with the CTIA President's Award.

Recognized as a leader in advancing wireless technology and in building and operating vast wireless networks, Lynch frequently provides expert commentary for a variety of leading business and trade publications. He is a frequent guest lecturer in academia and industry on wireless technology and trends.

Throughout his career, Lynch has held a variety of positions in all aspects of planning, operations and engineering, beginning with New England Telephone in 1972. Prior to joining Bell Atlantic Mobile, he was general manager of operations for Bell of Pennsylvania's Central Area, based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Lynch is a 1970 graduate of Lowell Technological Institute (now UMass) where he received bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering. He has also completed postgraduate work at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University.

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