i2Coalition Group Board of Directors
i2Coalition Position Treasurer
Company Jumpline Inc.
Company Position CEO
Andy Mentges is the Treasurer of the i2Coalition. Andy serves as the CEO of Jumpline, Inc. Founded in 1997, Jumpline was one of the first companies to focus entirely on high-quality web hosting.
i2Coalition Group Board of Advisors
i2Coalition Position Board of Advisors Member
Company World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Company Position Policy Counsel
Wendy Seltzer is Policy Counsel to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where she leads the Technology & Society Domain’s focus on privacy, security, web payments, and social web standards. As a visiting Fellow with Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, she researches openness in intellectual property, innovation, privacy, and free expression online. As a Fellow with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Tor Project, promoting privacy and anonymity research, education, and technology; and the World Wide Web Foundation, devoted to achieving the world in which all people can use the Web to communicate, collaborate and innovate freely. She seeks to improve technology policy in support of user-driven innovation and communication. Wendy speaks and writes on copyright, trademark, patent, open source, privacy, and the public interest online. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School.
i2Coalition Group Board of Advisors
i2Coalition Position Board of Advisors Member
Company FireEye
Company Position Senior Intelligence Researcher
At FireEye, Nart Villenueve focuses on cyber-espionage and the criminal underground. Nart’s research, including prior work at Trend Micro and the University of Toronto, led to the discovery and documentation of multiple malware-based espionage campaigns, in-depth reports on cybercrime networks and technical analysis of Internet censorship and surveillance regimes.
i2Coalition Group Board of Advisors
i2Coalition Position Board of Advisors Member
Company Consumer Technology Association (CTA)
Company Position Vice President Of Government Affairs
Petricone is responsible for representing the CE industry’s position before Congress and the FCC on critical issues such as Internet freedom, wireless spectrum, and high-skilled immigration. He is a frequent speaker on policy issues impacting the innovation industry. He has been frequently listed as one of DC’s top technology lobbyists.
Petricone received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and his undergraduate degree from Tufts University.
i2Coalition Group Board of Advisors
i2Coalition Position Board of Advisors Member
Company The 451 Group
Company Position Hosting And Cloud Research Manager
Liam Eagle covers the Service Provider space for 451 Research, focusing on web and application hosting, managed hosting and cloud infrastructure. His research focuses in part on the adaptation of traditional hosting technologies and models to accommodate emerging needs. These include web presence SaaS, the focus on web professionals and the channel market for cloud infrastructure. Liam has closely covered the hosting market for more than 10 years, giving him a front-row seat for many of the transformative trends that shaped the business, including the emergence of virtualization and cloud technologies, and the development of the hosting market’s partner ecosystem.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Liam was editor-in-chief at the Web Host Industry Review, where he managed a full-time editorial staff of four, along with dozens of freelancers and other contributors. In several years as co-chair of HostingCon, he built the educational program for one of the industry’s most highly regarded and well-attended events. Liam has spoken at the Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit, HostingCon, Parallels Summit, Open-Xchange Summit and other industry events. He holds a bachelor of journalism degree from Ryerson University in Toronto.
Access To Data, Privacy, US Policy
CCIA, Computer & Communications Industry Association, Consumer Technology Association, CTA, GigaNews, IA, Internet Association, Livewire, Livewire services, Perfect 10, Perfect 10 Amicus, US District Court for the Central District of California
The suit could have wide-reaching consequences, greatly increasing the liability risk for Internet service providers.
Open Internet, The Internet Infrastructure Industry, US Policy
Rayburn Congressional House Office Building, RHOB, Vermont, Virginia, VT
The i2Coalition has announced that the recipients of its 2017 Champion of Internet Freedom Awards will be Representative Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT).
Jeanine Percival Wright is the General Counsel for ZestFinance, a company specializing in assisting the lenders with machine learning. Previously she was Director of Legal Affairs at True Religion Brand Jeans. Before True Religion, Jeanine was the General Counsel of Media Temple, a web hosting company in Culver City, California. As General Counsel, Jeanine built a legal department from scratch, oversaw all of Media Temple’s legal issues and led the legal team that successfully sold Media Temple to GoDaddy at the end of 2013.
Prior to joining Media Temple, Jeanine was an attorney with the Entertainment & Media group at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P., primarily practicing in the areas of entertainment, employment, new media, intellectual property and commercial litigation. Jeanine earned her J.D., the order of the coif, from USC in 2006. Immediately after law school, she clerked for the Honorable Manuel L. Real, United States District Court, Central District of California. She went to UCLA for undergrad.
Jeanine is very involved with the Beverly Hills Bar Association, regularly volunteers at the Santa Monica Homeless Shelter, and represents victims of domestic violence pro bono.
Erik Martin is the VP of Marketing for video chat app Airtime. He has worked previously for Depop, a social shopping app, and co-working space WeWork. Involved with Reddit from 2008 – 2014, former General Manager Martin oversaw Reddit’s growth into a community of communities with more than 6 billion page views a month. Named by TIME magazine to their 2012 list of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World,” and by Adweek to their “Adweek 50″ list of top innovators. In 2013 WIRED named Martin one of their “Tech Titans” from the last 20 years. Martin is also an outspoken supporter of protecting internet freedom and innovation and serves on the Internet Infrastructure Coalition advisory board. Martin also recently launched Assholes On Demand a pro bono service that helps senior citizens and other underserved communities sort out customer service problems with big companies. Prior to Reddit, Martin advised on digital strategy for a wide range of film, music, TV and consumer brand companies. Before his internet addiction fully took hold, Martin worked as a documentary filmmaker. Originally from Chapel Hill, NC, Erik graduated from Tulane University and lives in NYC.
David Snead is an attorney based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the director of the Secure Hosting Alliance and runs a law firm representing Internet infrastructure providers. David has provided advice and counsel to technology companies since 1995 beginning with a practice based on technology exports. Since 1999, his practice has focused exclusively on the Internet infrastructure industry.
In 2011 he co-founded the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition), an advocacy organization for the Internet infrastructure industry. David is chairman of the Board of Directors of CasaQ, a shelter for LGBTQ+ youth at risk of homelessness. David received his J.D. in 1991 from Georgetown University Law Center, and his B.A. in 1987 in International Affairs from Trinity University in San Antonio. He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and State of New Mexico.
