MARK DESAUTELS
VP, Wireless Internet Development, CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association)

Mark Desautels was named Vice President, Wireless Internet Development, upon the merger of the Wireless Data Forum into CTIA in January 2001. Before that, he served as President & CEO of the Wireless Data Forum, beginning in January 2000, after serving for two years as its first Managing Director. Previously, he was the Assistant to the Director, Office of Intergovernmental Relations, Congressional Budget Office (CBO), where he was the agency’s press spokesperson and chief liaison officer. Desautels helped design, develop, implement, and manage the agency’s first Web site, and he was the agency’s representative to the Legislative Branch Legislative Information Systems Task Force. Prior to joining CBO, Desautels was the Washington-based business and economics reporter for a chain of business news weeklies owned by Scripps-Howard, covering the telecommunications industry and other beats. He also covered Capitol Hill for Thomson Newspapers. Desautels has a Master of International Public Policy degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Gettysburg College. He is a Member of the Advisory Board at the Center for e-Services, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and is an Editorial Board Advisor, Radio Resources Media Group.