Associate, Baker McKenzie
Kaitlyn Barry is an Associate at Baker McKenzie. Prior to joining the firm, she served as a trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. She previously clerked for Judge Kurt Engelhardt at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Ron Clark at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Kaitlyn is a 2019 graduate of the University of Houston Law Center. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was an NCAA Division I varsity student-athlete on the Longhorns cross country and track teams.
Founder & President, Jeffries Strategies LLC
E. Stewart Jeffries is the Founder and President of Jeffries Strategies LLC, where he brings over two decades of experience across legal, congressional, and government affairs to solve his clients’ complex policy, legislative, and oversight needs. Prior to founding Jeffries Strategies, Jeffries oversaw Google’s U.S. House and Senate Republican outreach across leadership, committee, and personal offices for the full range of issues facing the tech sector. Jeffries began his tenure at Google as its first Competition Policy Counsel, where he worked to secure a successful conclusion of the Federal Trade Commission’s 2011-13 investigation into the company’s business practices. Earlier in his career, Jeffries served on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, where he was the Chief Antitrust Counsel for the House Republicans and handled matters across a wide range of industries, including professional sports, telecommunications, airlines, financial services, agriculture, and railroads. Jeffries began his legal career in the New York office of a major international law firm, where he worked on a broad array of antitrust and other business tort matters. He earned his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Virginia, where he double-majored in Government and History. He earned his Juris Doctor at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Partner, Kressin Meador LLC
Mark Meador is a partner at Kressin Meador LLC, a boutique antitrust law firm. He previously served as Deputy Chief Counsel for Antitrust and Competition Policy to Senator Mike Lee, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee. Mark has also worked as an antitrust enforcer at both the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, and in private practice at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. He received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Chicago, and his law degree from the University of Houston Law Center.
President, Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies
Lawrence J. Spiwak is President of the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that studies broad public-policy issues related to governance, social and economic conditions, with a particular emphasis on the law and economics of the digital age. Mr. Spiwak is a prolific scholar whose work is frequently cited by policymakers, major news media and academic journals around the world, and is in the top 1.3%of authors downloaded on the Social Science Research Network. Mr. Spiwak currently serves as the co-chair of the Federal Communications Bar Association’s (FCBA) committee responsible for overseeing the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS LAW JOURNAL and is a member of the program committee of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (“TPRC”). Mr. Spiwak is also the recipient of the FCBA’s Distinguished Service Award. Prior to joining the Phoenix Center, Mr. Spiwak was a Senior Attorney with the Competition Division in the FCC’s Office of General Counsel from 1994-1998. While in college, Mr. Spiwak was accepted into the Presidential Stay-In School program where he was responsible for delivering classified and confidential material among senior White House and Reagan Administration officials and received a full FBI security clearance. Mr. Spiwak received his B.A. with Special Honors from the George Washington University and his J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Mr. Spiwak is a member in good standing of the bars of New York, Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Consultant, American Edge Project and U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Executive Director, Committee for Justice
Ashley Baker is Executive Director of the Committee for Justice and founder of the Alliance on Antitrust coalition. Her work focuses on antitrust law, technology regulation, administrative-agency authority, the Supreme Court, and judicial nominations. She closely follows the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, with particular attention to merger review, agency procedure, and the effects of regulation on American innovation and competitiveness. She is also founder of the Alliance on Antitrust Coalition.
Ashley has testified before the United States Senate on antitrust law. Her writing has appeared in Fox News, USA Today, The Boston Globe, The Hill, RealClearPolitics, The American Spectator, and other national publications. She also provides policy analysis through congressional testimony and correspondence, regulatory comments, and public commentary.
Ashley serves on the Federalist Society’s Regulatory Transparency Project and Antitrust and Consumer Protection Practice Group Executive Committee. She is also active in the Republican National Lawyers Association and has spoken on the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary. An authority on the judicial-confirmation process, she worked closely on the successful confirmation efforts for Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, as well as multiple federal appellate judges.
Kansas Securities Commissioner
Aaron Jack, J.D., M.B.A., is the Kansas Securities Commissioner, a position he was appointed to by Kansas Governor Sam Brownback in 2011. Aaron was previously the West-Central Zone Director for New York Life where his 3,200 registered representatives produced over $1.5 billion in sales annually. Aaron was the first director in the history of New York Life to raise $1 billion in new assets for the company's investment management subsidiary, NYLIM.
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