John W. Calkins has been Assistant General Counsel at Northwestern University since 2005. Prior to his appointment at Northwestern, Mr. Calkins was Counsel at Bingham McCutchen in San Francisco, where he handled intellectual property clearance, prosecution, strategic counseling, enforcement, litigation, and transactional matters. Mr. Calkins received a B.A. in Biology from Williams College and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. Mr. Calkins is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He co-chairs the Copyright Law Section of the State Bar of California and is a member of the Copyright Society of the USA, the International Trademark Association, and the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Mr. Calkins's principal areas of responsibility in the NU Office of General Counsel are intellectual property, technology licensing, information technology, and real estate matters.

Beth E. Cate is Associate General Counsel for Indiana University, and practices in a variety of areas, with emphases on intellectual property law and the law and ethics concerning research and the use of information technologies. Ms. Cate is also an adjunct member of the faculty in the University's School for Public and Environmental Affairs. Before joining the University in 1998, Ms. Cate served as in-house counsel for Eli Lilly and Company, practicing in a variety of areas; clerked for the Hon. S. Jay Plager of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; and practiced with the law firm of McKenna & Cuneo (now McKenna Long & Aldridge) in Washington D.C., focusing on civil litigation and international trade. Ms. Cate holds a B.A. in Economics from The George Washington University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, both with honors. She is currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors of National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), and served earlier on NACUA’s Continuing Legal Education Committee. Beth spends much of her spare time working with the Indianapolis Zoo, as a member of the Board of Trustees and a weekend volunteer helping to care for the Zoo's African elephants, including her adopted elephant daughter, Tombi. Ms. Cate tries to refrain from comparing the university setting to a zoo, but frequently fails.

Dennis J. Cromwell is Associate Vice President of Enterprise Infrastructure at Indiana University. His division manages the critical technology infrastructure that enables Indiana University services and software applications, including data centers, servers and storage, campus networks, telephone switches, identity management, and cable and wiring. Cromwell has extensive experience at Indiana University delivering production information systems for faculty, staff, and student use. Previously, Cromwell served IU as director of University Information Systems for UITS, responsible for all aspects of enterprise information systems including project management, applications development, database administration, identity management, data warehousing, production assurance, and operations. He led the infrastructure team at IU in a technology transformation from mainframe-based computing to an open systems environment that supports high availability systems for all eight campuses. Cromwell also has significant IT industry experience from two major software firms where he was a nationwide resource for database and application development tools. Cromwell is a frequent presenter and seminar leader at higher education IT events including EDUCAUSE and CUMREC. He is a graduate of Indiana University, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, has continuing education credits also from Indiana University, and has a significant record of civic engagement.

Steven J. McDonald is General Counsel at Rhode Island School of Design and previously served as Associate Legal Counsel at The Ohio State University. He has handled a number of Internet-related legal matters, ranging from alleged infringements of copyrighted materials on student web pages to investigations of computer break-ins to an e-mail death threat to Socks the cat. He began his legal career at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, where he represented CompuServe in Cubby v. CompuServe, the first online libel case, and he also has taught courses in Internet law at Ohio State’s College of Law and at Capital University Law School. He is a past member of NACUA’s Board of Directors and is the editor of its The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: A Legal Compendium. In State, ex rel. Thomas v. The Ohio State University, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that he really is a lawyer. He received his A.B. from Duke University and his J.D. from Yale Law School.