John D Evans

John D. Evans is an internationally recognized expert in the telecommunications industry and a leader in technological innovation, including The Cable Television Industry and Internet2, a consortium of over 300 U.S. research universities & institutes (www.internet2.edu) He is currently Chairman and CEO of Evans Telecommunications Company, an investment, consulting, and operating company in the cable television and telecommunications industries. He serves as chairman of the AMA Foundation’s LGBTQ+ Fellowship Commission To the general public, however, he is perhaps best known as one of the co-founders of C-SPAN (www.C-SPAN.org) in 1977 and its Chairman in the early 1990s. From 1978-2021, He servedon the board of C-SPAN, served on the Executive Committee, chaired the Audit & Finance Committee (1997-2018)and as a trustee of the C-SPAN Educational Foundation. He served on the board of Accelerator Technology Holdings Co. in Amman, Jordan, a Middle East telecommunications/media investment company. He is frequently called upon by universities and other groups around the world to speak about the broad implications of moving 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 2009, he was appointed by the National Science Foundation to serve on a distinguished panel to review and recommend multimillion dollar grants for NSF’s $200Million Academic Research Infrastructure Program (ARI-R2), an integral part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. In 2013, he was named as industry’s representative to the inaugural Board of Trustees of the Digital Preservation Network (www.dpn.org ) created by higher education to preserve digital libraries, big data and multi-media for generations yet to come. In 2008, the Internet-2 Board of Trustees appointed him as an industry representative to its External Relations Council. Additionally, in 2010, he was appointed to Governance & Nominating Council and elected to the Board of Trustees in 2011 and re-elected in 2015 as Industry’s representative. (www.internet2.edu). He has turned considerable amounts of his energy toward consulting and speaking on the future of the new technologies and their impact on media and society. 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 500,000 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 (now AT&T), then known as Southwestern Bell. This marked the first time a regional Bell operating company 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 He was elected to National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) Board of Directors in 1981 and re-elected in 2014. In 1981, he received the NCTA’s President's Award; and in 1984, the prestigious Vanguard Award for Young Leadership in recognition of his contributions to the cable television industry. 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. In April 2004, he was inducted in to the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame in Richmond, VA and the Cable Telecommunications Industry’s Hall of Fame in 2016 for his contribution to our country’s Cable and national media. In 2012, he was named a Patron of Diplomacy by the US Department of State, and appointed to the State Department’s Diplomatic Reception Rooms’ Fine Arts Committee. In 2013, he was appointed to the State Department’s LGBT Global Equality Fund’s Partner’s Committee. In 2012, the University of Virginia’s President appointed him to the UVA Strategic Planning Initiative’s Technology Group to help plan UVA’s future which issued its final report in June, 2013. 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 Internet2 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.

Developing and deploying an AIDS Vaccine; Digital preservation for our academic libraries, and open govenerment. Promoting Diplomatic Solutions to world problems/conflict using Industry and government

When 87% of Medical School graduates fail an LGBTQ+ health exam, the AMA Foundation knew there was a problem so created an LGBTQ+ Fellowship Commission to identify Medical schools to award 4-year fellowship grants to begin to address this LGBTQ+ healthcare disparety.

HIV AND AIDS CARE AND PREVENTION, Telecommunications and IT

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