Jonathan Askin

Jonathan Askin is General Counsel/Wartime Consigliere to pulver.com Enterprises, which controls more than 50 operating companies touching various aspects of Internet communications and entertainment. Jonathan oversees the legal, policy and regulatory affairs for the pulver.com enterprises, including Free World Dialup, LibreTel, pulver Innovations, pulverradio, pulvertv, pulver Consulting, WHP Wireless, VON Magazine, and the VON Conferences.

Jonathan is also the President of the Global IP Alliance, the international consortium of Internet communications providers, and on the Board of the VON Coalition, the advocacy organization representing the VoIP industry.

Before joining pulver.com, Jonathan was President and General Counsel to ALTS, the leading national trade association representing facilities-based CLECs. Jonathan was a senior attorney in the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau before joining ALTS. Prior to the FCC, he was a Deputy Public Advocate with the New Jersey Public Advocate and Ratepayer Advocate, where he represented the public on telecommunications and cable issues. Jonathan also practiced law with the New York offices of Davis, Polk and Wardwell. Jonathan is an honors graduate of both Harvard College and Rutgers Law School, and clerked for the late Chief Justice Robert Wilentz of the New Jersey Supreme Court.