Dr Chris Doyle
Dr Chris Doyle is a specialist in regulation and competition issues affecting the electronic communications sector. He is an Associate of the Centre for Management under Regulation, at Warwick Business School and Department of Economics, Warwick University. Among his many consulting assignments Dr Doyle was the principal advisor and auction designer for world’s first ascending clock spectrum auction held in Nigeria in 2001. He has advised numerous clients about auction design and auction bid strategies. He is a co-author of Essentials of Modern Spectrum Management, Cambridge University Press 2007. He has featured on television, radio and in newspapers on many occasions.
Professor Jean-Sébastien Lantz
Jean-Sébastien Lantz is a Professor at the University of Law at Aix-en-Provence in France and his book on financial economics won the Turgot Prize in 2005. He conducts research on the financing of technology projects and the valuation of licenses as intangible assets. His methodologies have been implemented for the evaluation of major projects in the telecoms, nuclear energy and biotechnology sectors, including the modeling of expected cash flows. In 2009 his work was used by several organisations such as the mobile operator Orange and the Thai regulatory body, NTC.
Karen Wrege
Karen Wrege has over 18 years of auction experience centred on the sale of large non-tangible government assets. In 1991 she developed and implemented the National Non-Performing Loan Auction Program for the Resolution Trust Corporation. In 1994 she implemented the FCC spectrum auction and licensing programs and managed technical and operational aspects for the next eleven years. In 2008, Ms. Wrege and Brett Tarnutzer founded KB Enterprises, LLC and were retained by the US Federal Aviation Administration to develop an auction program for take-off and landing slots; the government of Canada to advise on their AWS spectrum auction and by The Brattle Group to develop a software platform for auctions of electricity.
Brett Tarnutzer
Brett Tarnutzer began his spectrum auction career in 1994 at the FCC, supporting the first spectrum auctions and later serving as auction branch chief where he oversaw all bidder seminars and mock auctions. After leaving the FCC, he served as project manager for a software development company where he designed the functional requirements and technical specifications for the FCC’s next generation auction system used to auction over $33B of government assets. In May 2007, Brett Tarnutzer founded an independent consulting firm, and later formed KB Enterprises, LLC with Karen Wrege (see above).
Richard Womersley
Richard
Womersley has an honours degree in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering accompanied by over 15 years consulting, operational and
business experience in the fields of radio spectrum management, public
telecoms and digital broadcasting. He is an experienced trainer and has
conducted consultancy projects for regulators, operators, governments
and end-users on issues covering national and international policy;
regulation and its implications; pricing, auctions and licensing;
service and technology roll-out; and interference. His work has spanned
Europe (including the European Commission, EBU, Ofcom and the UK
Government), the Middle East, the Caribbean, the Americas, Africa,
South Asia, East Asia and Australasia.
Martin Sims
Martin Sims is a journalist and academic who specialises in
communications policy issues. He set up PolicyTracker, the spectrum
policy newsletter and has published articles on many facets of the
subject. His work has been published in academic journals and books and
he is a former editor of Intermedia, the policy journal of the
International Institute of Communications. As a journalist he was a
news editor in independent radio then worked for BBC network news. He
has an honours degree and a masters degree in communication studies and
lectures at the University of East London.
