Policy Council

Jerry Barnett is Managing Director of Strictly Broadband Ltd., the UK's leading adult VoD provider, and is also the chairman of the UK's Adult Industry Trade Association. He is an entrepreneur from a computing technology background.

Beginning as a software developer and IT consultant in the mid-1980s, he has been involved with Internet, software and server technologies for around 25 years.

After working for a variety of technology-user organisations, including the London Stock Exchange, he then worked within the computer hardware and software industries as a specialist in software development, databases, servers and Internet networking.

Chad Belville is an attorney in Phoenix, Arizona practicing primarily within the online adult entertainment industry. He has served as an elected County Attorney in Worth County, Iowa, as a Board Member of the Arizona Civil Liberties Union, and on the Steering Committee of the Human Rights Campaign in Arizona.

Chad currently sits as Vice Chair of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee of the Arizona State Bar and, as a former elected prosecutor, an associate member in good standing of the National District Attorneys Association. He is admitted by examination to the Supreme Courts of Iowa and Arizona and admitted to the United States Supreme Court.

Chad earned Bachelor’s Degrees in both Accounting and Economics from the University of Northern Iowa following Honorable Discharge from the United States Navy. He earned the degree of Juris Doctor from the University of North Dakota, including study at the University of Oslo School of Law in Oslo, Norway.

Andrew Kayton is general counsel for WebPower, Inc., an internet services provider specializing in transmission of adult-themed content.

WebPower is responsible for developing a number of widely adopted internet business models and innovations. The ClickCash affiliate program, started by WebPower in 1996, is one of the web’s earliest and largest affiliate marketing programs and has paid out nearly $200 million in webmaster commissions.

The company’s flagship subscription service, iFriends, has more than 9 million members in 146 countries and has served as the template for virtually all online adult webcam networks since its inception in 1998. Prior to working at WebPower, Mr. Kayton was a partner and associate specializing in complex business and securities litigation at major law firms in Miami and Los Angeles.

He also served as the ACLU’s legal director in Florida, where he litigated a number of high-profile First Amendment matters. Mr. Kayton is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and Amherst College.

Trieu Hoang is VP of Business Development and General Counsel at AbbyWinters, a leading amateur girl-girl site.

After graduating with a double degree in law and science from the University of Melbourne, Trieu worked as a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting. While as consultant, one of Trieu's engagement was as a member of the Australian Government's Business Taxation Secretariat, which reviewed existing business tax laws and recommended business taxation reforms.

With an interest in film, Trieu joined the corporate strategy team of Village Roadshow, an Australian media company with businesses in cinema, theme parks, film production and distribution. It is best known for its co-production of the Matrix, Oceans, and Sex and the City franchises with Warner Bros.

After completing his MBA, Trieu joined Australia's pre-eminent science and research organisation the CSIRO's Information & Communication Technology division which holds the WiFi 802.11 patent. Trieu was involved in commercialising research and technology, which included an enterprise search engine, wireless smart sensors, haptics, and augmented reality.

Florian Sitta is an attorney at law concentrating on intellectual property, licensing law, internet and communications law.

Since 2004, Mr. Sitta has been Head of the legal department of Beate Uhse AG, Germany, additionally responsible for corporate law, corporate governance and compliance as well as being in charge as Commissioner for the Protection of Youth.

Beate Uhse was established by the entrepreneur of the same name in 1946. Today Beate Uhse is Europe's largest retailer, wholesaler and manufacturer of adult lifestyle goods. Beate Uhse is active in over 30 countries through its family of retail store and mail order brands including Beate Uhse, Pabo, Adam et Eve and Christine le Duc as well as through its wholesale group, Scala Playhouse and ZBF.

In addition Beate Uhse produces adult lifestyle products and digital media under a growing portfolio of proprietary lines including Mae B.(TM), ToyJoy(TM), Taboom(TM), Geisha(TM) and Daring!(TM). Beate Uhse is listed on the official market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Beate Uhse is headquartered in Flensburg, Germany, and has significant fulfillment and marketing operations located in the Netherlands.

Fred H. Cate is a Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington and director of the Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. He specializes in privacy, security, and other information law issues, and appears regularly before Congress, government agencies, and professional and industry groups on these matters.

Professor Cate is a senior policy advisor to the Center for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams and a member of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals, and the board of editors of Privacy & Information Law Report. He also serves as reporter for the American Law Institute's project on Principles of the Law on Government Access to and Use of Personal Digital Information.

Previously, Professor Cate served as counsel to the Department of Defense Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee, reporter for the third report of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, and a member of the Federal Trade Commission's Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security. He directed the Electronic Information Privacy and Commerce Study for the Brookings Institution and chaired the International Telecommunication Union's High-Level Experts on Electronic Signatures and Certification Authorities.

He is the author of many articles and books, and appears regularly in the popular press. A senator and fellow of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and an elected member of the American Law Institute, Professor Cate received his J.D. and his A.B. with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University. He is listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in American Education. In 2007 Computerworld listed him as the only academic on its list of "Best Privacy Advisers" in the United States and Europe.

Bob Corn-Revere is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, specializing in First Amendment, Internet and communications law. He has served as counsel in First Amendment litigation involving the Communications Decency Act, the Child Online Protection Act, Internet content filtering in public libraries, public broadcasting regulations and export controls on encryption software.

In 1999 Mr. Corn-Revere was listed on a 30th Anniversary Roll of Honor by the American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom and Freedom to Read Foundation for his role as lead counsel in Mainstream Loudoun v. Board of Trustees of the Loudoun County Library. He successfully argued United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc., 529 U.S. 803 (2000), in which the United States Supreme Court struck down Section 505 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as a violation of the First Amendment. Mr. Corn-Revere also served as lead counsel in Motion Picture Association v. FCC, 309 F.3d 796 (D.C. Cir. 2002), in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated video description rules imposed on networks by the FCC.

He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Pike & Fischer's INTERNET LAW & REGULATION. From 1987 to 2001 Mr. Corn-Revere taught at the Communications Law Institute of the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America. He is Chairman of the Media Institute's First Amendment Advisory Council and is a member of the Institute's Board of Trustees. From 2000-2002, Mr. Corn-Revere served on the Board of Trustees of the Freedom to Read Foundation, affiliated with the American Library Association.

Corn-Revere graduated with a Juris Doctor from Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. Prior to law school, Corn-Revere obtained an M.A. from the University of Massachusetts and a B.A. from Eastern Illinois University

Sharon Girling had a 30 year career in policing, specializing in the last ten years in addressing international Internet enabled paedophilia. Her career in this field started in 1998 when she was the case officer for the first and largest covert Internet investigation, Operation Cathedral, culminating in the successful conviction of suspects in the United Kingdom and abroad. Since Operation Cathedral she has been involved in many operations policing child abuse on the Internet both nationally and internationally.

Her contribution as a specialist investigator was recognized in 2004 by Her Majesty the Queen through her appointment as an Officer of the British Empire, for services to the Police and Public in the area of child protection and Internet investigations.

Sharon’s knowledge and experience have enabled her to be integral to the development of policy and legislation in this area and to advise governments. She been directly involved in the establishment of policing units, including their capacity, staffing, capability and resources to tackle this issue, in more than 30 countries.

She has had the opportunity to advise the British Prime Minister and the President of the United States on this area of policing as well as the judiciary, Chief Constables and their representatives.

Nadine Strossen is a Professor at the New York Law School. She has written, lectured, and practiced extensively in the areas of constitutional law, civil liberties, and international human rights. From 1991 through 2008 she served as president of the American Civil Liberties Union, the first woman to head the nation’s largest and oldest civil liberties organization. Professor Strossen is currently a member of the ACLU’s National Advisory Council.

The National Law Journal has named Strossen one of “The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.” In 1996, Working Woman Magazine listed her among the “350 Women Who Changed the World 1976–1996.” In 1997, Upside Magazine included her in the “Elite 100: 100 Executives Leading The Digital Revolution.” In 1998, Vanity Fair Magazine included Strossen in “America’s 200 Most Influential Women.” In 1999, Ladies’ Home Journal included her in “America’s 100 Most Important Women.

Strossen’s writings have been published in many scholarly and general interest publications (more than 250 published works). Her book, Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights (Scribner, 1995), was named by The New York Times as a “Notable Book” of 1995. Her coauthored book, Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties (NYU Press, 1995), was named an “outstanding book” by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America.

Strossen graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College (1972) and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (1975), where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.