Speaker Profiles

Leaders from government and regulatory agencies will share insights into the evolving landscape of tech policy and competition enforcement, alongside senior executives, product strategists, and data privacy specialists from across the technology sector who will provide first-hand views on the business, operational, and compliance challenges shaping the industry. Their expertise spans digital platforms, AI, data analytics, and online advertising ecosystems. Scholars, legal experts, and policy analysts will also examine the broader implications of technological change for competition, markets, and consumer rights, offering perspectives grounded in rigorous research and practical legal experience from top universities, think tanks, and law firms. Full speaker lineup to be announced in September. Please check back for updates.

Brian Boyle, DLA Piper

Brian Boyle is Deputy Chair of the U.S. Antitrust & Competition practice at DLA Piper. He represents clients in high-stakes antitrust, competition, and consumer protection matters, defending companies in investigations by the FTC, DOJ, and state attorneys general, litigating antitrust and consumer protection cases, and guiding complex mergers and acquisitions through global antitrust review. His experience spans cartel and pricing conduct cases, consumer protection and unfair competition claims, and advising executives before legislative committees.

Drawing on his background in finance and corporate development, Brian brings a business-minded approach to antitrust challenges, from multi-billion-dollar public market M&A to non-profit hospital affiliations. He previously served as an advisor to the Pennsylvania Attorney General and has held leadership roles in the ABA Antitrust Section, including as an editor of its leading treatise Antitrust Law Developments.

Susan Duarte, Marashlian & Donahue, PLLC, The CommLaw Group

Susan Duarte is a dynamic legal strategist with extensive experience guiding businesses of all sizes—ranging from startups to Fortune 100 giants—through the complexities of technology, advertising, data privacy, and consumer protection law. With leadership roles like Director and Senior Corporate Counsel at T-Mobile and Senior Counsel at a global tech powerhouse, Susan blends legal precision with business strategy to drive innovation while managing risk. Renowned for her expertise in regulatory compliance, marketing law, and AI, she empowers clients to stay ahead in fast-evolving industries. Honored as the ACC’s Best In-House Counsel of the Year in 2024, Susan is a proven advocate in regulatory defense, having tackled high-stakes matters before the FCC, FTC, and NAD with proven success.

Arielle Garcia, Check My Ads

Arielle Garcia is the Chief Operating Officer at Check My Ads, the digital advertising watchdog. She was previously the chief privacy and responsibility officer at UM Worldwide, and founded her own consultancy firm, ASG Solutions, to empower companies to achieve sustainable growth through responsible marketing.

She has advised 100+ marketers globally on the evolving digital landscape, driving the development and adoption of safe and effective media and data strategies for the benefit of brands and their customers.

A steadfast advocate for transparency, trust, and fairness in the digital ecosystem, Arielle partners with businesses and organizations to shape policy, standards, and solutions that foster a healthier market, protect civil and human rights, and promote industry accountability.

In 2021, Arielle was inducted into the AAF Advertising Hall of Achievement, which recognizes individuals who are making a significant impact in the industry through both their work and philanthropic contributions. She has been recognized by Crain’s New York Business “20 in their 20s,” a Cynopsis “Top Woman in Media” in 2021, and a “Top Woman in Media & Ad Tech” by AdExchanger in 2023. She holds a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.

Sara Geoghegan, Electronic Privacy Information Center

Sara Geoghegan is Senior Counsel at EPIC. She focuses on commercial surveillance, consumer privacy, and health and reproductive privacy. She is a graduate of UIC John Marshall Law School in Chicago. During law school, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the UIC Journal of Privacy & Technology Law, as an Associate Justice on the Moot Court Honors Board, and on the Trial Advocacy & Alternative Dispute Resolution Council. She also worked as a Teaching Assistant for a legal writing appellate advocacy course. She has written about data minimization, surveillance capitalism as a threat to reproductive privacy, and artificial standing barriers to Article III privacy claims. She holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Illinois Bar.

Lee Hepner, American Economic Liberties Project

Lee Hepner is a California-based antitrust lawyer and Senior Legal Counsel for the American Economic Liberties Project. He started his career in civil litigation, representing plaintiffs in labor and First Amendment litigation. For the last decade, he has worked in and out of government on policies that address corporate power at the local, state and federal level.

Haley Hinkle, Fairplay for Kids

As Policy Counsel at Fairplay for Kids, Haley is focused on Fairplay’s work advocating for laws and regulations that protect children and teens’ autonomy and safety online. Before joining Fairplay, Haley clerked for the Hon. Robert L. Miller, Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. During law school, Haley worked on issues at the intersection of government surveillance technology and civil liberties. Haley studied law at Indiana University – Bloomington and journalism and political science at Northwestern University. She lives in Washington, DC, with her partner, Isaac, and their very spoiled cat, Cammie.

James Keyte, Boies Schiller Flexner

James is a trial lawyer with extensive experience in sports, Big Tech, mergers, and antitrust. He has handled many high-profile cases, including class actions, alleged price-fixing, monopolization, intellectual property licensing, distribution rights, and more. James has also helped lead litigation challenges to mergers brought by the DOJ and FTC.

His sports clients have included the NHL, NFL, NBA, and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, and he has litigated cases for or provided antitrust-related advice to companies such as Anheuser-Busch InBev, Express Scripts, The Coca-Cola Company, and SanDisk.

Most recently, he served as the Director of Global Development at the Brattle Group, where he was involved in several tech platform related litigations, on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants, as well as matters addressing algorithmic pricing and generative AI.

James has repeatedly been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA, which has described him as a “brilliant” antitrust lawyer and a “bulldog in the courtroom.”

James is the Director of the Fordham Competition Law Institute, and, as an adjunct professor, has taught Comparative Antitrust Law, including on Big Tech, for several years. He has published more than 50 articles related to antitrust across a wide range of topics, is a former editor of the Antitrust Law Journal, and currently serves as editor of Antitrust Magazine.

James spent two decades as a partner at an international law firm, leading complex antitrust and sports litigation, transactions, and advisory matters across diverse sectors.

Hannah Garden-Monheit, American Economic Liberties Project

Hannah Garden-Monheit is a Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project. Hannah formerly served as Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, where she led development and implementation of competition and consumer protection policy initiatives and advocacy efforts. Prior to joining the FTC, Hannah served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director for Competition Council Policy. In that role, she helped lead the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts on competition policy, universal broadband, technology policy, nursing home reform, clean energy trade policy, and more.

Prior to joining the Administration, Hannah served as Senior Policy Advisor to the CARES Act Congressional Oversight Commission, helping to oversee half a trillion dollars in Federal Reserve and Treasury spending. Hannah also previously served as a Supreme Court and appellate attorney in private practice, and as a policy advisor in the Iowa Statehouse. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and Grinnell College.

Samuel Levine, Former Director, FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection

Samuel Levine served as Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, where he oversaw enforcement, rulemaking, and policy work across a wide range of areas, including privacy, data security, marketing, financial services, digital advertising, consumer reporting, algorithmic decision-making, and small business financing. Before his appointment as Director, he served as an attorney advisor to Commissioner Rohit Chopra and as a staff attorney in the Midwest Regional Office. Prior to joining the FTC, Mr. Levine worked for the Illinois Attorney General, where he prosecuted predatory for-profit colleges and participated in rulemaking and other policy initiatives to promote affordability and accountability in higher education.

Mr. Levine is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he spearheaded student-led efforts to challenge illegal foreclosures, and of Washington University in St. Louis. He clerked with The Honorable Milton I. Shadur in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and received the Gary Bellow Public Service Award in recognition of his commitment to social justice.

Elizabeth Odette, Assistant Attorney General, Minnesota

Elizabeth Odette is Assistant Attorney General in the Consumer, Wage and Antitrust Division of the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office and is Chair of the Antitrust Task Force at the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG). Elizabeth joined the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office after more than 15 years in private practice at the Minneapolis law firm Lockridge Grindal Nauen. Much of her career in private practice was spent pursuing potential violations of the federal antitrust laws on behalf of nationwide classes. Additionally, she has represented classes and individuals related to consumer, product liability, and securities laws. She has had the privilege to be a part of more than a dozen trial teams in these areas. For more than a decade, Elizabeth has provided pro-bono services representing youth clients in foster care in child protection cases through the Children’s Law Center of Minnesota. Elizabeth received her BA and JD from the University of St. Thomas Law School.

Clarence Okoh, Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology

Clarence Okoh is the Senior Associate at the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology working at the intersection of race, technology, and the law. Prior to Georgetown, Clarence was a Just Tech Fellow at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and Senior Policy Counsel at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). Before that, Clarence was an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund where he challenged police surveillance practices and algorithmic discrimination against Black communities. Clarence began his career as an AmeriCorps program member in his native Alabama. Clarence received his B.A. from the University of Chicago and his J.D. from New York University School of Law where he was a Colloquia Editor for the NYU Review of Law and Social Change and a recipient of the Root Tilden Kern Scholarship and Dean John Sexton Prize.

Representative Javier Mabrey (CO)

Representative Javier Mabrey was elected to the Colorado State House of Representatives for his first term in office on November 8, 2022. He is the representative for Colorado House District 1, which encompasses Denver’s southwestern neighborhoods. He serves as the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee and a member of the State, Civic, Military & Veterans Affairs Committee during the legislative session, and the Committee on Legal Services year round.

After law school, Javier helped found a non-profit focused on keeping Coloradans in their homes. Since 2020, Javier’s organization has represented thousands of Coloradans facing eviction and successfully advocated for significant policy changes to help renters in Colorado. He now works as an eviction defense attorney and community organizer.

Rep. Mabrey has continued his work to address Colorado’s housing crisis by carrying legislation that increases habitability requirements for rental properties to protect tenants from living in a housing unit that may cause negative impacts to their health. He has also successfully passed policy to address gun violence and the rising cost of health care by passing legislation that caps the price of a 2-pack of EpiPens at $60 and allows gun violence victims to seek accountability in court.

Kenneth Racowski, Holland & Knight

Kenneth L. “Ken” Racowski is an antitrust attorney in Holland & Knight’s Philadelphia office, co-head of the firm’s Antitrust Team, and a member of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice.

Mr. Racowski is a first-chair, antitrust trial lawyer, who is well regarded for his proven track record in the defense and trial of disputes throughout the United States. His recent trials have included a three-week trial in federal court of a competitor action alleging group boycott and information exchange claims, and an eight-week trial against Federal Trade Commission (FTC) allegations of anti-competitive conduct.

Mr. Racowski represents clients in their most complex and hard fought antitrust, class action and commercial litigation matters. He serves as lead counsel in cutting-edge antitrust matters, and is a thought leader on recent trends and emerging issues impacting antitrust law. His recent matters include high-profile disputes related to artificial intelligence, algorithmic price fixing, pharmaceuticals, healthcare mergers and protein processing.

In addition, Mr. Racowski has developed significant experience in defending clients against the novel antitrust theory of liability alleging price fixing by algorithm. He has represented numerous clients across several industries in algorithmic price-fixing cases, has authored several articles and is often sought for comment by major publications.

Dr. Keith Waehrer, Secretariat

Keith Waehrer has testified at deposition and trial on mergers, monopolization claims, and calculations of reasonable royalties. He has worked on some of the highest profile antitrust litigations in recent years—State of New York et al. v. T-Mobile-Sprint, FTC v. Qualcomm, United States v. AT&T-Time Warner, and United States of America et al. v. American Express Co. et al.—and on significant mergers—E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. and Dow Chemical Company, United Technologies Corp. and Rockwell Collins, and Comcast and Time Warner Cable (abandoned). Having authored highly regarded papers on the subject, Dr. Waehrer is an expert in the analysis of competitive effects in auction markets and the impact of overlapping minority shareholdings on competition.

As a visiting partner at ESMT Competition Analysis (now known as E.CA Economics) in Berlin, Germany, Dr. Waehrer worked on a number of significant matters before the European Commission and national competition authorities in Europe. Dr. Waehrer’s international experience also includes work on a significant merger matter before the South African competition authorities. He has worked on matters involving a wide range of industries, including consumer products, telecommunications, aerospace, music licensing, Internet services, pharmaceuticals, financial services, e-commerce, agricultural inputs, industrial parts, and chemicals. Dr. Waehrer has been named to Global Competition Review’s list of International Who’s Who of Competition Economists in 2012, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

Brad Weber, Troutman Pepper Locke

Brad co-leads Troutman’s Antitrust Practice, is a past chair of the Antitrust & Business Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas, and a past president of the Dallas Bar Association. For the past 11 years, he has been rated by Chambers USA for antitrust law, and he was recognized by The Best Lawyers in America as the “Lawyer of the Year” for Antitrust Law in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area for 2022 and 2024, an honor bestowed each year to only one attorney in a practice area and metropolitan area. Brad’s recent antitrust cases have involved clients from a wide range of industries, including energy, financial services, real estate, multifamily property management, insurance, travel services, building products, and agriculture. He also has extensive experience representing clients in class actions and multidistrict litigation.

In addition to his antitrust litigation practice, Brad frequently represents clients in government antitrust investigations, enforcement actions, and merger reviews with the Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Department of Justice-Antitrust Division, and numerous state antitrust enforcement agencies. He also advises clients on the antitrust implications of proposed transactions and other business activities, including compliance and reporting under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Act, and provides consultation, analysis, and advice regarding the antitrust laws as they relate to various business relationships and trade association activities. A client represented by Brad in a government investigation told Chambers that he, “works magic with antitrust regulators,” with another client noting, “his experience with prior transactions gives him a wealth of knowledge and experience.”