Co-Chairmen

Mike McCurry

Mike McCurry is a partner at Public Strategies Washington, Inc. where he provides strategic communications counsel to an impressive roster of corporate and non-profit clients. McCurry also serves as an advisor and board member of Grassroots Enterprise, Inc. a firm that specializes in using the Internet to mobilize citizens for effective public action.

McCurry is a veteran communications strategist and spokesperson with nearly three decades of experience in Washington D.C. McCurry served in the White House as press secretary to President Bill Clinton (1995-1998). He also served as spokesman for the Department of State (1993-1995) and director of communications for the Democratic National Committee (1988-1990). McCurry has also held leadership roles in several national campaigns -- senior advisor for Senator John Kerry (2004), national press secretary for the vice presidential campaign of Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen (1988), and spokesman and political strategist in the presidential campaigns of Senator John Glenn (1984), Governor Bruce Babbitt (1988) and Senator Bob Kerrey (1992). McCurry began his career on the staff of the United States Senate, working as press secretary to the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources and to the committee's chairman, Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr. (1976-1981). He also served as press secretary to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1981-1983). In the private sector, he served as public affairs director for the ERISA Industry Committee (1984-85) and as senior vice president of the consulting firm then known as Robinson, Lake, Lerer, & Montgomery (1989-92).

McCurry serves on boards or advisory councils for Share Our Strength, the Center for International Private Enterprise, the Council for Excellence in Government, the Junior Statesmen Foundation, the Childrenís Scholarship Fund, the Wesley Theological Seminary, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

McCurry received his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1976 and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Georgetown University in 1985.

Christopher Wolf

MSNBC calls Christopher Wolf "a pioneer in Internet law." And, indeed, Chris was involved in the earliest matters involving the Internet, helping to make new law for new technologies. He was trial counsel for the old MCI in a three-month-long jury trial involving a failed joint venture for Internet-related equipment, where MCI won a complete victory. He represented The Washington Post in a high-profile challenge to reporters' use of the Internet, winning summary judgment. He represented the recording industry in the first successful lawsuits against online piracy. And he was among the first lawyers to litigate domain name disputes, jurisdictional issues and the limits to online and e-mail marketing. A more recent case involved a trademark law challenge to the use of Google "adwords" for marketing purposes.

As the Internet matured, and personal privacy became an issue, Chris also was among the first to be involved in the new field of electronic privacy law. One notable case was the one in which Chris successfully challenged the U.S. Navy in federal court under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act for their improper contact with AOL. Today, he is called upon for advice, counsel and representation on privacy law matters including those under EU and foreign law, as well as federal statutes (such as COPPA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley) and the growing body of state law, especially in California. He has served as counsel for each of the U.S. airlines accused of privacy law violations arising from their cooperation on security matters. Indicative of his standing as one of the country's leading Internet lawyers are the many opportunities Chris has had to speak and write on Internet and privacy law, including at Harvard and Stanford Law Schools, as an adjunct professor at the Washington & Lee University School of Law, on CLE panels such as PLI Institutes, at the Brookings Institution, at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference, at the Bar Association of the City of New York, and at international conferences in Sweden, France and Israel. Chris also is a regular commentator on NBC, CNN and MSNBC.

Chris is a 1980 magna cum laude, Order of the Coif graduate of the law school at Washington & Lee University, where he served on Law Review and was a Teaching Fellow. He graduated in 1976 cum laude from Bowdoin College and was a General Course participant at the London School of Economics & Political Science. He clerked for U.S. District Judge Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr. in Washington, DC.

His community leadership includes service as Chair of the Washington, DC Governing Board of the Anti-Defamation League and service on the national ADL Executive Committee; President of the Board of Food & Friends, a social service agency; and longtime membership on the Board of the National Symphony Orchestra. Chris is a member of the Cosmos Club in Washington.