Jim Bruce is a Partner with Wiley, Rein & Fielding’s government affairs practice and has particular experience in communications and energy. He serves as outside counsel to EMA and is a regular speaker on e-mail privacy and policy issues at EMA’s conferences. He is the former Senior Counsel of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, as well as Counsel for the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, and is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a patent attorney.

Walter Ulrich is a Vice President and Senior Director of Arthur D. Little, resident in the firm’s Houston office. Walter is an electronic messaging pioneer who introduced the first commercially viable electronic mail service twenty years ago. He is a founder of the Electronic Messaging Association (EMA) and has been a featured speaker at every EMA annual meeting.

Doug Shelton is Manager of E-mail Services at Kaiser Permanente, part of Kaiser’s National E-mail & GroupWare Services team. He has led efforts in developing and organizing the technical and support infrastructure for client/server messaging at Kaiser, designing an inter-divisional X.500 DIT, and implementing cross-platform Messaging Hubs. In his current capacity, Doug has responsibility for cross-platform connectivity between 9 different e-mail systems at Kaiser, a 13,000-user client/server environment and a 30,000-user mainframe messaging environment.

Randy Perrin is the Technical Writer supporting Kaiser Permanente’s National E-mail & Groupware Services team. He has spent four years documenting the strategies, systems, and procedures that support Kaiser’s messaging environment.

Raphael Freiwirth is Manager, Messaging & Security Engineering Services at Time Warner, Inc. Ray has a long history with the messaging world. He has worked in a vendor setting to create an X.400 and X.500 product. He then worked as an industry consultant to help architect and integrate messaging into large corporate infrastructures. Ray attended various NIST and IETF meetings during this time to help promote integration and cooperation. He became part of the "family" with Citicorp, architecting and managing a worldwide rollout of a messaging and directory infrastructure. Currently he is at Time Warner building up the messaging and directory infrastructure, as well as looking at the security ramifications in a messaging environment.