Mari Silbey

Chief Program Officer at National Spectrum Consortium

Speaker

Mari Silbey is Chief Program Officer for the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC) and has two decades of experience in the telecommunications industry. At NSC, she helps set organizational strategy, engages regularly with consortium members, and leads the development of programs – including technology working groups, the creation of new technology ecosystems, and the cross-pollination of NSC initiatives with other industry efforts to advance priorities laid out by NSC’s government partners. In addition to her position at NSC, she currently serves as Program Director for the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program created by the National Science Foundation. Previously, she served as Senior Director of Partnerships and Outreach at the non-profit US Ignite, and prior to 2018, she worked in the telecommunications industry for more than a decade as a journalist, editor, and analyst.