Welcome to a tech policy podcast. I'm Ash Kazarian. On today's show, we're going to talk about spectrum and if 5G can give you coronavirus.

Joining me is Nathan Leamer, vice president of Targeted Victory. Nathan, welcome to a show.

Hey, thanks for having me, Ash.

So, Nathan, before we dive into these exciting topics, can you give our listeners a background

on targeted victory, like what Targeted Victory does, and then some personal background

so that I understand how do you fit in in the world of telecom?

Sure.

Yeah, so I work at Target's Victory. We are a public affairs firm based in Arlington,

Virginia. And I work pretty closely with a number of corporate clients on kind of the intersection of technology and policy, kind of advising, given perspective on a host of issues related to emerging technology,

telecom, internet regulations were at large. And then before Targeted Victory, I worked for

almost three years for Chairman Ajit Pi at the FCC, where I served as a policy advisor

and working on issues like net neutrality, media ownership,

5G, got to really see how the sausage is made, working closely with the chairman and his

senior team, as well as the other commissioners.

And before then, I was at R Street where I was a senior fellow and outreach manager working on emerging

tech and innovation policy. And then before then I did a couple other stints at some think

tanks and then also as a hill staffer for representative Justin Amash. Yes. And for our listeners,

I met Nathan in his R Street days when he was known as one of the most famous DC hipsters, and no one thought he was going to sell his soul to the world of telecom.

Yeah, it's a crazy world we take.

Although at least I wasn't a substitute teacher back then.

That's the more important part.

Right.

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