2021 HONORS & AWARDS THE JAY KITCHEN LEADERSHIP AWARD Dale N. Hatfield — In recognition of achievement of a high level of success leading a wireless association. Dale N. Hatfield is currently Spectrum Policy Initiative Co-director and Distinguished Advisor at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The Silicon Flatirons Center (SFC) was founded in 1999 and conducts research and sponsors conferences and other gatherings devoted to the field of information and communications technology (ICT). It provides a forum for entrepreneurs, lawyers, other industry professionals and policymakers to discuss the changing technologies in ICT as well as the new business models and the relevant policy and legal issues associated with them. In his role as Adjunct Professor in the Technology, Cybersecurity and Policy Programn (TCP) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Hatfield teaches and gives lectures relating to telecommunications technology, policy and regulation in both national and international venues. In recent years he has focused much of his attention on spectrum management.
He no longer engages in telecommunications consulting except on a pro bono basis. He is currently serving on the FCC’s Technology Advisory Council (TAC) and on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC). Hatfield served as the founding Executive Director of the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG), a multi-stakeholder group whose mission is to bring together engineers and technical experts to develop consensus on broadband network management practices and related technical issues that can affect users’ Internet experience. Mr. Hatfield has had sixty years of experience in the telecommunications field both in the public and private sectors. His government roles have included senior policymaking positions at the Office of Telecommunications Policy in the Executive Office of the President, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce. His last position in government was Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the FCC. In the private sector, he established a successful multidisciplinary telecommunications consulting firm and served as a director on the boards of several publicly traded and privately held companies in the telecommunications field. In addition, in the academic sphere, he was the founding director of a graduate level telecommunications program at the University of Denver and, during his most recent three-year stay in Washington, DC, he taught a graduate course in telecommunications technology at Georgetown University. From July, 2001 until his retirement in May 2017, Mr. Hatfield served on the Board of Directors of Crown Castle International (CCI), a telecommunications company whose stock is traded on the NYSE.
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