Chris Boyer

Chris Boyer serves as assistant vice president of public policy at AT&T Services Inc. Mr. Boyer is responsible for developing and coordinating AT&T’s public policy positions on issues impacting emerging services and technology with a focus on cyber security. Mr. Boyer participates in a wide range of legislative, regulatory and policy development proceedings and represents AT&T before stakeholders on the Federal and state levels and in a variety of international forums. Mr. Boyer also serves as AT&T’s representative on the board of directors of the National Cyber Security Alliance, a public private partnership dedicated to promoting cyber security awareness and education for home users, small and medium size businesses, and primary and secondary education. Mr. Boyer also serves on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Internet Security and Privacy Advisory Board; serves as co-chair of the cybersecurity policy committee for the Communications Sector Coordinating Council (CSCC); and as co-chair of the public policy committee for the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), an industry organization focused on botnets, malware, spam, viruses, denial-of-service attacks and other forms of online exploitation. Mr. Boyer joined AT&T in 1993 and has held various positions in AT&T’s corporate public policy, network planning and engineering, product marketing and network services departments including extensive experience working on AT&T’s U-verse, broadband, VoIP and IPTV initiatives. Mr. Boyer holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from the University of Kansas and an MBA from the University of Houston in Houston, TX. He currently resides in Bethesda, MD.

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