Joseph Mazzarella

Joe has more than 30 years of senior legal and business technology leadership experience. He has served in a variety of operational and legal leadership roles, including as general counsel to several telecommunications, networking, and software companies, and president and chief operating officer of a leading technology company in the public safety, defense, and communications space.

A cutting-edge tech industry leader, Joe holds more than 30 US patents in numerous emerging areas, including no-code/low-code platforms, clean energy networks, interoperable multimedia communications, biosensor networks, IoT, AI, blockchain, drones, and wearable computing. Joe regularly speaks on emerging AI regulatory issues.

He also has been directly involved in structuring complex debt and equity financing, IP licensing, international joint ventures, M&A, supplier, and channel distribution and manufacturing agreements. He is experienced in government relations in both policy and appropriations at the federal and state level, as well as federal contracting, export controls, FCPA, and other regulatory compliance matters. In addition, Joe has managed commercial litigation.

Joe has served and continues to serve in a variety of board director and business advisor positions in the biotech, interactive gaming, and performing arts sectors.

On August 7, 2024 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a new Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) proposing regulations that prohibit the use of AI in automated dialing or artificial or pre-recorded voice calls absent the prior written consent of the call recipient, unless otherwise exempted by the FCC. The action was taken under