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Feature Story JULIUS GENACHOWSKI
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FCC
Chairman ••
Julius Genachowski was
nominated by President Barack
Obama to a seat on the Federal
Communications Commission on
March 23, 2009. He was
unanimously confirmed by the
United States Senate on June 25,
2009, and sworn in as FCC
Commissioner on June 29,
2009.
••Born
August 19, 1962, he is a U.S.A.
lawyer and businessman. He became
Federal Communications Commission
Chairman on June 29, 2009.
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Genachowski grew up in
Great Neck, New York and received
his B.A. in history in 1985,
magna cum laude, from Columbia
College, Columbia University,
where he was an editor of the
Columbia Daily Spectator.
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He received his J.D. in
1991 from Harvard Law School,
where he was a notes editor at
the Harvard Law Review when it
was headed by Barack Obama, who
graduated in the same year.
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After graduating from
Harvard, Genachowski clerked for
the Honorable Abner J. Mikva on
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
D.C. Circuit, and then at the
U.S. Supreme Court for two years,
for Justices William J. Brennan
and David Souter.
Government
and Business
Experience.
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Julius
Genachowski
has been active at the
intersection of social
responsibility and the
marketplace.
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He worked on the select
committee investigating the
Iran-Contra Affair and for U.S.
Representative (now Senator)
Chuck Schumer; and was the Chief
Counsel to Federal Communications
Commission Chairman Reed Hundt, a
position he left in 1996 to go
into business.
•••
Genachowski was Chief of Business
Operations and a member of Barry
Diller's Office of the Chairman
at IAC/InterActiveCorp. He had
previously served on the Boards
of Directors of Expedia,
Hotels.com and Ticketmaster.
•••He
is a co-founder of LaunchBox
Digital and Rock Creek Ventures.
He is also a special advisor at
General Atlantic and a member of
the Boards of Directors at The
Motley Fool, Web.com, Mark Ecko
Enterprises, and Beliefnet. He
was appointed to the board of
JackBe in April 2006.
•••Genachowski
serves as a board member of
Common Sense Media, a leading
organization seeking to improve
the media lives of children and
families; and as an advisory
board member of Environmental
Entrepreneurs (E2). He also
recently helped found the New
Resource Bank, the country's
first commercial "green
bank." Obama
Campaign and
Transition
•••For
the Obama 2008 Presidential
Campaign, Genachowski was
Chairman of the Technology, Media
and Telecommunications policy
working group that created the
Obama Technology and Innovation
Plan.He also advised and guided
the Obama campaign's innovative
use of technology and the
Internet for grassroots
engagement and participation.
•••He
co-led the Technology,
Innovation, and Government Reform
Group for president-elect Barack
Obama's presidential transition
team. On January 12, 2009,
several news outlets reported
that Genachowski would be
President-Elect Obama's choice to
head the Federal Communications
Commission as Chairman. This was
confirmed by a press release on
March 3, 2009. Accomplishments
as FCC Chairman •••Genachowski
set a new tone for the agency
when he promised to rein in
companies restricting what people
can do on their Internet lines In
August, he surprised the tech
industry when he demanded an
explanation from Apple for its
rejection of Google Voice. Late
in September, he argued for new
rules to make sure Internet
service providers obey the FCC's
network neutrality
principles.
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Julius
Genachowski
•1962
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Born on
August 19, 1962. A son of Eastern
European immigrants, he grew up
in Great Neck, New York. •1985
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Received
BA Degree from Columbia
College
(magna cum laude), where he was
Editor of Columbia Spectator's
Broadway Magazine, re-established
Columbia's oldest newspaper (Acta
Columbiana), and was a writer and
researcher for Fred Friendly. He
was also a certified Emergency
Medical Technician who served on
the Columbia Area Volunteer
Ambulance, and taught
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
(CPR). •1991
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Received
JD
Degree,from
Harvard Law School, also
(magna
cum laude)
where he was a co-Notes Editor at
the Law Review when it was headed
by Barack Obama, who graduated
the same year. •1991
- After graduating from
Harvard, Genachowski clerked for
the Honorable Abner J. Mikva on
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
D.C. Circuit, and then at the
U.S. Supreme Court for two years,
for Justices William J. Brennan
and David Souter. •1994
- FCC - From 1994 until 1997,
he served as Chief Counsel to
then FCC Chairman Reed Hundt,
and, before that, as Special
Counsel to then FCC General
Counsel (later Chairman) William
Kennard. •1996
-FCC - Worked for
then U.S. Representative (now
Senator) Charles E. Schumer
(D-N.Y.), and on the staff of the
House select committee
investigating the Iran-Contra
Affair. He was Chief Counsel to
then-Federal Communications
Commission Chairman Reed Hundt, a
position he left in 1996 to go
into business. •1996
- Genachowski was Chief of
Business Operations and a member
of Barry Diller's Office of the
Chairman at IAC/InterActiveCorp.
He had previously served on the
Boards of Directors of Expedia,
Hotels.com and Ticketmaster. •1997
- From 1997-2005, he was a senior
executive at IAC/InterActiveCorp,
a Fortune 500 company, where his
positions included Chief of
Business Operations and General
Counsel. •2003
- In
2003, when he got a $2.5 million
stake in the creation of Vivendi
Universal Entertainment, while he
was counsel at Barry Diller's
InterActive Corp. •2008
- For
the Obama 2008 Presidential
Campaign, Genachowski was
Chairman of the Technology, Media
and Telecommunications policy
working group that created the
Obama Technology and Innovation
Plan. •2005-Present
- Director, The Motley Fool,
Inc. •2006
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Co-founder
of LaunchBox Digital and Rock
Creek Ventures,
where
he served as Managing Director,
and was a Special Advisor at
General
Atlantic.
and a member of the Boards of
Directors at The Motley Fool,
Web.com, Mark Ecko Enterprises,
and Beliefnet.
In
these capacities, he worked to
start, accelerate, and invest in
early- and mid-stage technology
and other companies.
•2006-04
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Appointed
to the Board of JackBe. •2006-2009
- Former Independent
Director, Chairman of
Compensation Committee, Member of
Audit Committee and Member of
Nominating & Corporate
Governance Committee Web.com
Group, Inc.
• •2007-1115
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LaunchBox Digital founded by
Julius Genachowski. •2007-Present
- Member of the Advisory
Board CampusU, Inc. •2008
- He
co-led the Technology,
Innovation, and Government Reform
Group for president-elect Barack
Obama's presidential transition
team •2008-0806
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LaunchBox
Digital, a new early-stage
investment firm founded Aug 6, by
Julius Genachowski, Sean Greene
and John McKinley, announced the
first nine companies to complete
its incubator program.
•••The
companies -- BuzzHubb, Heekya,
Jam Legend, Koofers,
Mpowerplayer, MyGameMug, Razume,
ShareMeme and Zadby -- all hail
from the gaming, mobile and
social media spaces, and moved to
DC this summer to be part of the
12-week program.
•••More
than 250 companies initially
applied for the program.
•••The
nine companies each received
startup funding and tutelage, and
will this week showcase their
products to press, angel
investors and venture capitalists
at events taking place in DC and
Silicon Valley. •2008-1028
- The
Potomac Officers Club hosted
newly-named Obama Transition Team
Chief Technology Advisor Julius
Genachowski, on October 28th •2008-1113
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Early
in the presidential campaign, Mr.
Genachowski urged Mr. Obama to
capitalize on the organizing
power of the Internet. He was a
prolific fund- raiser and
chairman of the campaign's group
of technology-policy advisers,
who produced a report advocating
an open Internet. •2008
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Genachowsk is linked to Mr. Obama
by countless hours spent holed up
together in the offices of the
Harvard Law Review, from which
they would briefly escape for
games of pickup basketball. They
remained close over the years,
attending each others' weddings.
Early in the presidential
campaign, Mr. Genachowski urged
Mr. Obama to capitalize on the
organizing power of the Internet.
He was a prolific fund-raiser and
chairman of the campaign's group
of technology-policy advisers,
who produced a report advocating
an open Internet, diversity in
media ownership and a nationwide
wireless system for emergency
personnel.
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In his own
words: "We believe that 'green'
has evolved from a small movement
to a major market force, that
many businesses are poised to
help address our alternative
energy and other sustainability
issues, helping us become a
global leader in building new
industries that meet the growing
demand for green and
resource-efficient products." •2008
- FCC -
In
December 2008, IFTA called on the
new Obama Administration to
appoint an FCC chairman and
commissioners who support
principles of openness and
diversity in the media with an
open letter to his transition
team, including Julius
Genachowski. •2009-0303
-FCC - Nominated by
President Barack Obama, as
Chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission, on
March 3,
to replace current Chairman Kevin
Martin who would resign on Jan.
20, 2009. •2009-0618
- FCC -
The
Senate Commerce Committee
approved Julius Genachowski as
chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission,
sending his nomination to the
Senate floor. •2009-0629
- FCC -
Sworn
in as Chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC)
on June 29. •2009
- One
way the FCC could address the
need for greater spectrum
availability for wireless
broadband would be to shuffle the
UHF and VHF frequency spectrums
previously allocated for
television, as FCC chairman
Julius Genachowski suggested back
in October of 2009. •2010-0107
- Asks
for a one-month extension of the
deadline to deliver the National
Broadband Plan ("NBP") to
Congress. •2010-0108
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Answers
questions during a one-on-one
session at the "Consumer
Electronics Show" (CES) in Las
Vegas. •2010-0311
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Explains
his agency's role in the merger
review process before senators,
with an emphasis on the pending
union of NBC Universal and
Comcast. •2010-0318
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Delivers
a keynote speech on March 18,
during the 2010 "NAB Show" in Las
Vegas. •2010-0321
- New
rules, proposed by Chairman
Julius Genachowski, would
prohibit discrimination among
applications and users on the
nation's telecommunications,
wireless, and cable Internet
services. •2010-0513
-
Delivers
a keynote speech at "The Cable
Show 2010," hosted by the
National Cable &
Telecommunications Association
(NCTA). •2010-0406
- A
federal appeals court, on April
6, ruled that the F.C.C. had
exceeded its authority by telling
Comcast, the nation's largest
cable company, that it had to
give Internet users equal access
to all online content providers,
even if some of their content was
clogging Comcast's
network
Personal •He
is married
to Rachel
Goslins, a documentary filmmaker,
whose most recent work, "'Bama
Girl," documents the 2005
homecoming queen contest at the
University of Alabama, in which a
black underdog candidate took on
the white sorority machine...
They have three children. His
parents are Eastern European Jews
who survived the Holocaust. His
cousin, Menachem Genack, is an
Orthodox rabbi and the CEO of the
Orthodox Union Kosher
Division.
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Social
Responsibility •2006
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Genachowski
serves as a board member of
Common Sense Media, a leading
non-partisan,
non-profit
organization
seeking to improve the media
lives of children and families;
and as an advisory board member
of Environmental Entrepreneurs
(E2). He also helped found the
New Resource Bank, the country's
first commercial "green bank."
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Genachowski)
•2002-Present
- Former DirectorHotels.com
LP; Former Director, HSN,
Inc.Member of Board
Advisor,Truveo, Inc.; Member of
Business Advisory Board, Rearden
Commerce, Inc.; Director, JackBe
Corporation; Former Member of
Executive Advisory Board. Rapt,
Inc.; Member of Advisory Board,
Bandwidth.Com, Inc.; Member of
the Advisory Board, Viewpoints
Network, LLC; Former Director,
Chairman of Audit Committee and
Member of Nominating Committee,
Ticketmaster Entertainment, LLC;
Chairman, Federal Communications
Commission; Former Director,
Common Sense Media, Inc.;
Director, Beliefnet, Inc.; Former
Director, Executive Vice
President - USA Networks Inc.,
Secretary - USA Networks Inc. and
General Counsel - USA Networks
Inc Expedia, Inc., prior to its
acquisition by
IAC/InterActiveCorp.;
member of
the Boards of Directors at The
Motley Fool, Web.com, Mark Ecko
Enterprises, and Beliefnet.
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In
some ot these capacities, he
worked to start, accelerate, and
invest in early- and mid-stage
technology and other
companies.
