About Us
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Julian Gresser, Chairman, BroadBand International Legal Action Network, Founder/CEO Big Heart Technologies
Julian Gresser (Santa Barbara, CA, USA) is an international attorney, professional negotiator, inventor, and recognized expert on East Asia, and CEO of Big Heart Technologies, a humanitarian Benefit Corporation founded to provide tools and resources to empower collaborative innovation and negotiation training. As a negotiator his most dramatic success involved helping a San Francisco-based trading company transform its $8 million after-tax branch into a $1 billion Japanese company in seven years. He has served as legal advisor to numerous U.S., Japanese, and European companies on a wide array of business issues, including joint ventures, limited (venture capital) partnerships, technology licensing, export controls and customs fraud, antitrust, and intellectual property protection, particularly patent infringement disputes. Julian Gresser has been twice Visiting Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese law at the Harvard Law School and a visiting professor at MIT, Doshisha University (Kyoto) and the Beijing University. He has been a senior consultant to the U.S. State Department, The World Bank, The Prime Minister's Office of Japan, The People's Republic of China, and the European Commission (where he trained the Commission's Japanese negotiating teams). More
Ben Levi, Chief Operating Officer, BroadBand International Legal Action Network
Ben Levi (Boulder, CO, USA) was educated as an engineer, and has a 35 year computer consulting career specializing in the Apple platform, including hardware, software, training, systems design and Filemaker Pro database development. He is also a specialist in online conferencing platforms including Zoom and Maestro. In addition to his hardware and software expertise, Ben has decades of “wetware” experience, living in intentional communities, assisting with organizational and community facilitation, Bohemian Dialogue, and Spiral Dynamics integral, which he taught for ten years with the founder, Dr. Don Beck. Ben combines all of his expertise in assisting with many online and face-to-face conferences focusing on the healthy evolution of human consciousness and solving the many problems of existence our civilization is facing. He lives in the foothills of Boulder, CO in a solar home he designed and contracted, where he also has a small USDA certified organic farm that he developed with Aria Seidl, growing medicinal herbs, including lavender and other products. He is also a New Zealand resident, typically spending most Colorado winters there.
Doug Wood, Board Member, BroadBand International Legal Action Network
Doug Wood is a filmmaker, author, composer and political strategist. He is the producer of numerous films on environmental issues, and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
William Moulton, Board Member, BroadBand International Legal Action Network
William Moulton is a board member at Alliances for Discovery, its chief technology officer, and a high-technology systems innovator. He has brought to market a broad spectrum of software and hardware products as an executive, inventor, engineer, and senior manager. More…
LEGAL ADVISORS
Betsy Lehrfeld, Executive Director, National Institute for Science, Law, and Public Policy
Betsy E. Lehrfeld, a principal in Swankin-Turner, focuses on insurance investment and regulatory issues, health care, health-specialty certification, and commercial, contract, corporate and tax matters for businesses and nonprofit organizations. She has appeared before the Food and Drug Administration and has served as general counsel to Consumers United Insurance Company, the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and the Consumer Health Foundation (formerly Group Health Association, Inc.). A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), she currently serves as executive director of the the National Institute for Science, Law, and Public Policy.
Robert J. Berg
Robert J. Berg, of the Law Office of Robert J. Berg, is an experienced litigator, who has, for the past 38 years, specialized in complex class action litigation in the federal and state courts nationwide. Mr. Berg has been a lead or co-lead counsel for plaintiffs in numerous securities fraud and consumer fraud class actions, and he has achieved hundreds of millions of dollars in recoveries for class members. Mr. Berg graduated from Amherst College, with a B.A. degree cum laude. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School and his M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In recent years, Mr. Berg has developed a specialty in advising individuals and organizations regarding the deployment of wireless telecommunications facilities in their communities. Mr. Berg represents parties before local, city, and county land use boards challenging the siting of proposed cell towers and small cell facilities, and prosecutes lawsuits against such bodies and the telecommunications companies when necessary.
Lorna Hackett
Lorna Hackett is a high profile civil rights lawyer, co-founder of Hackett & Dabbs LLP, dedicated to equality, fairness and justice and representing the most vulnerable in society. She is the litigator instructed in the Action Against 5G case in England and has conducted numerous high profile cases over her career. She is a renowned public speaker in social justice and criminal justice reform and has campaigned for prisoners serving imprisonment for public protection since 2010.
IN MEMORIAM
James S. Turner (in memoriam)
Jim Turner is a principal in Swankin & Turner, Wash DC, represents businesses as well as individuals and consumer groups in a wide variety of regulatory matters concerning food, drug, health, environmental and product-safety matters. He has appeared before every major consumer regulatory agency, including the Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Consumer Product Safety Commission and Federal Trade Commission, as well as the Department of Agriculture and the National Institutes of Health. Mr. Turner has served as special counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Food, Nutrition, and Health and to the Senate Government Operations Subcommittee on Government Research. He has also been a policy consultant to major corporations in the food, pharmaceutical and telecommunications industries, including such companies as Kraft Foods, The Quaker Oats Company, Hoffmann-LaRoche and AT&T. Mr. Turner was the lead attorney on a successful petition to the FDA to reclassify acupuncture needles from Class III to Class II medical devices, permitting their legal importation and distribution. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University School of Law. More