Board of Advisors

John D. Evans
Chairman & CEO
Evans Telecommunications Co. and The John D. Evans Foundation

John D. Evans is an internationally recognized expert in the telecommunications industry and a leader in technological innovation, including Internet 2, a consortium of 202 U.S. research universities. He has turned considerable amounts of his energy toward consulting and speaking on the future of the new technology and its impact on media and society.

He is currently Chairman and CEO of Evans Telecommunications Company, an investment, consulting, and operating company in the cable television and telecommunications industries. To the general public, however, he is perhaps best known as one of the co-founders of C-SPAN in 1977 and its Chairman in the early 1990s. He has remained active on the board of C-SPAN, currently serving on the Executive Committee, chairman of the Finance Committee, chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee, and as a trustee of the C-SPAN Educational Foundation.

He is frequently called upon by universities and other groups around the world to speak about the broad implications of the movement from the analog to the digital age, the convergence of high-speed computers, new broadcast and wireless technologies, and the growing universe of the Internet.

In 1996, he was a U.S. delegate to the Asia-Pacific Conference of Science and Technology Leaders in Beijing as a guest of the Chinese government. In 1998, he was a U.S. delegate to the conference on Science and Technology for Caribbean Academy of Science in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. He was the 1998 lecturer for the University of Utah's prestigious Siciliano Forum: Considerations on the Status of the American Society.

He was a 1999 guest lecturer for the "Future Makers Lecture Series" at Emory University in Atlanta. He keynoted the first Socio-Technical Summit for Internet 2 at the University of Michigan in September 1999. In October 2000 he was guest lecturer at Sweet Briar College, Virginia, and the University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities. In May 2001, he was the final keynote speaker for the first global executive summit on world health philanthropy held at the Royal College of Physicians in London. In November 2001, he was the Quello Center for Telecommunications Management and Law inaugural Lecturer at Michigan State University.

In December 2001, he received the League of African American Women's annual award for his and the Waterford Project's contributions to fighting the Global AIDS pandemic. In December 2002, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative based in New York whose mission is to accelerate and deploy an AIDS vaccine for the world.

Mr. Evans's growing interest in the application of technology to medical problems and social issues also has led him to an interest in AIDS and other issues facing society. In 1995, he was appointed by Robert C. Gallo, co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, to Dr. Gallo's Advisory Board for the Institute of Human Virology, a leading international scientific and clinical research center for AIDS located at the University of Maryland in Baltimore.

In 1998, he was the keynote speaker for Dr. Gallo's annual meeting on AIDS and viruses, attended by more than 1,000 of the world's top AIDS scientists and clinicians. In 1999, he was asked to head up a four-university research alliance - The Waterford Project-to accelerate the development of an AIDS vaccine for the world.

His career over the past three decades reflects and helped shape the dynamically changing telecommunications field.

Mr. Evans graduated from the University of Michigan in 1966, is an active alumnus, and serves on the College of LS&A Visiting Committee to assist in developing plans to meet the college's long-range educational goals. In 1998, he was appointed to The University of Michigan's President's Advisory Council to help guide the University into the Digital Age. In March 2000, he was appointed to the University's Blue Ribbon Commission on Information Technology to study the impact of information technology on all aspects of University life. As a U.S. Navy Lieutenant, he served aboard the aircraft carriers USS America and USS John F. Kennedy, as television project officer for "SeaLab" project and on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon.

After completing military service, he became president of Evans Communications System with licenses for two radio stations in Charlottesville, Virginia. He began his career in cable television in 1972 as a regional manager of the largest operating region of what is now AOL Time Warner Cable. Four years later he joined Arlington Cable Partners in Arlington, Virginia, as chief operating officer and investor and built the first cable television system in the Washington, D.C. area. When the company was acquired by an affiliate of Hauser Communications in 1983, Mr. Evans was named President.

In 1981, he received the National Cable Television Association's President's Award; and in 1984, the prestigious Vanguard Award for Young Leadership in recognition of his contributions to the cable television industry. He is active in and continues to serve on the NCTA Board of Directors, having been elected in 1982. In July 2001, he was inducted into the Virginia Cable Telecommunications Association Hall of Fame in recognitions of his achievements and contributions to advancing cable telecommunications in Virginia.

As President of Hauser Communications (HCI) from 1983 to 1994, he oversaw the day-to-day operations of one of the nation's then largest cable television operations, serving some 400,000 customers in the suburbs of Minneapolis/St. Paul and Washington, D.C. Subsequently, Mr. Evans and his business partner, Gus Hauser, completed a landmark transaction when they sold HCI's cable properties in the Washington suburbs to SBC Communications, then known as Southwestern Bell. This marked the first time a regional Bell operating company wholly purchased an operating U.S. cable system. This transaction also marked the beginning of the convergence of telephone, computer, fiber optic and coaxial cable technologies. Today he serves on a number of company and non-profit boards.

As founder of the John D. Evans Foundation, Mr. Evans is committed to AIDS and cancer research, protection of the environment, and improving the quality of life through technological innovation, education, and the arts.

Mr. Evans's biography is listed in:

• Who's Who in the World
• Who's Who in America
• Who's Who in Finance and Industry
• Who's Who in Media and Communications
• Who's Who in Science and Engineering
• Who's Who in Entertainment

He has two children, John Jr., 24, and Courtenay, 21.

Education

University of Michigan, 1966.