Edward R. McNicholas, Sidley Austin LLP
Edward R. McNicholas is a partner in the Washington, DC office of the international law firm Sidley Austin LLP and a global coordinator of its Privacy, Data Security, and Information Law practice. His practice focuses on clients facing complex information technology, constitutional and privacy issues. He has significant experience with a wide range of Internet and information law matters involving privacy and data protection, electronic surveillance, information security, cybersecurity, cloud computing, e-commerce, and national security. Mr. McNicholas previously served as an Associate Counsel to President Clinton, where he advised senior White House staff regarding various Independent Counsel, congressional and grand jury investigations.

Mr. McNicholas earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He earned an A.B. from Princeton University and served as a clerk for the Honorable Paul Niemeyer on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Stephanie K. Pell, SKP Strategies, LLC
Stephanie K. Pell, founder of SKP Strategies, LLC, provides legislative, policy and government relations consulting across the cluster of communications privacy issues found at the nexus of law enforcement, national security, commercial and consumer interests, including electronic surveillance and wiretapping; location-based information and services; cloud computing; cybersecurity; information sharing; and data retention issues. In October 2012, Ms. Pell became a Non-resident Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society and, in conjunction with that affiliation, has authored a forthcoming article about the legal, technological, political and policy implications of United States v. Jones, 132 S. Ct. 945 (2012) entitled "Jonesing For a Privacy Mandate, Getting a Technology Fix—Doctrine To Follow," which will be published in the May 2013 symposium edition of the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology.

Prior to founding her current firm, Ms. Pell served as Counsel to the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives (on detail from the Department of Justice), where she was the Democratic Majority’s lead counsel on Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) reform and PATRIOT Act reauthorization during the 111th Congress. Prior to leaving the Department of Justice in January 2011, Ms. Pell had been a federal prosecutor for over fourteen years, working as a Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, as a Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division, and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. She was a lead prosecutor in U.S. v. Jose Padilla (American Citizen detained as an enemy combatant prior to criminal indictment and trial) and in U.S. v. Conor Claxton (IRA operatives who purchased weapons in South Florida and smuggled them into Belfast, Northern Ireland during peace process negotiations). Ms. Pell earned undergraduate, master’s, and law degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.