Penfield Gill, Incorporated

Jock Gill is president and founder of Penfield Gill, Inc, a consulting firm specializing in new media communications, marketing, and strategic planning. PGI helps its clients to sustain their success in a fast-changing future, by moving aggressively to take advantage of the opportunities inherent in network technologies.

PGI is also involved with selected startup companies in the new media sector. Additionally, Mr. Gill has worked extensively with members of the MIT AI Lab and has interests and experience in the use of computers in education.

A partial list of Penfield Gill's current and past clients and associations includes:

• The Black Forest Group
  
• North Atlantic Telephone
  
• The Greenstar Foundation
  
• Highlands Forum
  
• ASCII Corp of Japan
  
• Collaborative Structures LLC
  
• General Motors Europe
  
• IBM
  
• John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company
  
• The Dutko Group
  
• Simon Strategies
  
• SchoolSports
  
• Pamet River
  
• North Communications
• 7X24 Exchange
  

At present, Mr. Gill is a member of:

• The Black Forest Group
  
• The Advisory Board for the Center for Democracy and Technology
  
• A Founding Board Member of Democrats Online
  
• The Advisory Board of Net.Capitol
  
• The Board of Directors of North Atlantic Telephone
  
• The Board of Directors of the Greenstar Foundation

Mr. Gill has made presentations to the MIT Conference on Technologies of Freedom, Emerging Media in Modern Culture as well as to the JFK School of Government & Council on Foreign Relations panel on Security Implications of the Information Revolution.

From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Gill was the Director of Special Projects in the Office of Media Affairs at The White House, and maintains close ties with the leadership in Washington, DC.

During his tenure at the White House, Mr. Gill was instrumental in developing:

• The first ever Internet addresses for the President and Vice President
  
• E-mail access to public White House documents via the Internet
  
• The first publication of a proposed United States budget on CD-ROM
  
• Welcome to the White House (http://www.whitehouse.gov) - An Interactive Citizen's Handbook
  
• Americans Communicating Electronically (ACE) project, a consortium of government and private groups interested in new media and community development
  
• The first White House seminar on complexity science
  

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