Stuart N. Brotman is President of Stuart N. Brotman Communications, a global consulting firm based in Lexington, Massachusetts. As a senior management adviser for domestic and international communications, information, Internet and entertainment industry clients, he provides strategic business, financial, regulatory policy and operations counseling, due diligence evaluations and management education for corporate CEOs, presidents and other key executives. Representative clients include AT&T; A&M Records, Inc.; Allbritton Communications Company; Bank of America; BankBoston; Compaq Computer Corporation; Continental Cablevision, Inc.; Cox Cable Communications; Digital Equipment Corporation; EMC Corporation; Fidelity Capital; Fleet Bank; Fox Broadcasting Company; France Telecom Inc.; Korea Telecom; J.P. Morgan & Company, Inc.; Nabisco Brands, Inc.; National Association of Broadcasters; National Cable Television Association; NYNEX; Oakland Athletics Baseball Club, Inc.; Siemens AG; Telenor; Time Warner, Inc.; Viacom International and The Washington Post Company. His public sector consulting portfolio includes the Commission of the European Communities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Institute for Information Studies, the International Telecommunication Union and the United States Department of Justice.

From 1978-81, Mr. Brotman served as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information -- the President's principal communications policy adviser -- at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in Washington, DC. In this capacity, he served as a liaison to the White House, the FCC, other government agencies, private industry, academic and research organizations, the legal community and the press. His work spanned a broad range of concerns, including broadcast, cable television and common carrier regulation and industry structure; home video and information services; public broadcasting; direct broadcast satellites; copyright; antitrust law; new communications technologies and programming sources; and federal and state communications legislation. He also served as NTIA's Project Manager for the four-volume contract research study, The Emergence of Pay Cable Television.

Mr. Brotman received his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), where he served as Note and Comment Editor of the California Law Review. He received his M.A. in Communications from the University of Wisconsin, where he specialized in communications regulation and policy. He received his B.S. in Communication Studies and Mass Media, summa cum laude, from Northwestern University. As an undergraduate, he also studied international and comparative broadcasting at the Center for Communication Studies in London.

Mr. Brotman has completed the professional programs in negotiation and mediation at Harvard Law School. He also has served as a staff member of the Program on Communications and Society, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, and as a Twentieth Century Fund Fellow in Law and Journalism at the National News Council.