Eagle View Capital Strategies

Previously, he was president and CEO of the Wireless Communications Association International from 1996 to 2008 in leading its worldwide advocacy to help create today’s broadband wireless industry. In that post, he helped advocate innovative uses for broadband in such fields as education, public safety and economic development both in the United States and internationally after three years work as the association’s vice president and general counsel. Earlier, he was a Washington-based lawyer at the national law firm Latham & Watkins, law clerk to a prominent federal judge in Boston, author of a highly acclaimed book about the news business, communications director for the leader of Connecticut’s General Assembly and a journalist with thousands of bylined articles. With more than 100 radio, TV and cable news appearances, he has lectured on five continents about government affairs and business development. He has more than 100 radio, TV and cable news appearances in addition to the show “Washington Update” he co-hosts for worldwide distribution on the My Technology Lawyer radio network. Eagle View Senior Consultant: John Kelly

John Kelly, senior analyst with Eagle View Capital Strategies, also directs John Kelly & Associates Public Relations. Previous employers have included NBC News, CBS News, the State of New York and the Central Intelligence Agency. His news topics have included cutting-edge stories on the 1960 Kennedy Presidential campaign, Cape Canaveral space launches, the historic 1961 integration of University of Georgia at Athens, and flying to Washington to witness the Kennedy Inauguration and, from a nearby camera platform, hearing the words, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." He reported exclusives about Albert "The Boston Strangler" DeSalvo, Cuban militants planning Castro's overthrow, Soviet espionage, Mafia crime, the Vietnam War and Watergate. Kelly interrupted his reporting career, leaving his post as an editor at NBC News at its Rockefeller Center headquarters in New York, to become a CIA covert action officer serving in Vietnam during the war, among other duties. Later, he returned to reporting. Afterward, he was appointed by New York Governor Hugh L. Carey to serve as a Director and Deputy Commissioner of the State Department of Taxation and Finance. As an NBC reporter, writer and news editor, Kelly's assignments included living on the secret bases of the militant anti-Castro organizations Alpha 66 and Brigade 2506 as they planned commando raids on the Cuban mainland from camps in the Florida everglades. The FBI's Hoover authorized Kelly to meet with former Soviet GRU intelligence agent Kaarlo Toumi in safe houses in New York after the Finnish-born Russian switched sides to become a double-agent for the U.S. For years, Soviets failed to detect the agent's switch. Later, as a reporter at CBS News, Kelly covered Watergate cover-ups in Washington, Miami and California. Among his exclusives were the Army's use of the University of Minnesota campus police for surveillance and photographing students during rallies and campus activities. Also, Kelly broke stories showing that Army instructors rigged tests measuring Army reactions to potential missile attacks. Kelly served as a CIA action officer, but resigned after calling for a congressional investigation into Vietnam War corruption by local officials and cover-ups by U.S. officials who failed to provide oversight. "The two most abused things in Vietnam," Kelly was quoted in media reports as saying, "are the American G.I. and the U.S. taxpayer's dollar." In the administration of New York's governor, Kelly's responsibilities included mustering congressional support for passage of anti-organized crime legislation aimed at ending interstate cigarette bootlegging. The smuggling was siphoning $90 million of state tax revenue, with the money going into the coffers of three major organized crime families. Later, Congress enacted an omnibus anti-organized crime bill. Also, Kelly helped develop New York's Parent and Student Savings (PASS) tuition savings program that allowed tax deductions for parents and/or guardians on their deposits for their dependents' future student tuition. Under the new law, students could declare the funds as income on their tax returns spread over a five-year, post-graduation period. Kelly is a Manhattan resident who serves on the boards of the New York Symphonic and the Japan-U.S. Concert Society. He co-produced at Carnegie Hall the Japanese classic Mandara. The performance showcased 58 monks of the Shingun sect that had never traveled as a group outside Japan in its 1,150-year history. Also, Kelly has co-produced events at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and in Japan. The latter included a concert of Western Hemisphere classical music at the Itsukushima Shrine on Miya Jima off the coast of Hiroshima, the first time such a concert had been held at the shrine since it was constructed more than 1,400 years ago.