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Rick Cimerman, Senior Director,
National Cable & Telecommunications Association
Rick is the Senior Director of State Telecommunications Policy. He joined NCTA as a Director in January 1995. His primary responsibility is to aid State Cable Associations and cable companies in working with Public Utility Commissions to facilitate local telecommunications competition.
Rick currently co-chairs the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory CommitteeÕs Broadband Task Force, serves as the Program Chair for the NARUC/NECA National Summit on Broadband Deployment and is the past president of the National Coalition for Technology and Education in Training (NCTET). He has testified across the country before numerous state Public Service Commissions and Legislatures. He has also served as an adjunct faculty member of Michigan State UniversityÕs NARUC Annual Regulatory Studies Program and serves as a member of New Mexico State UniversityÕs Center for Public Utilities Advisory Committee.
Prior to joining NCTA he worked for nearly three years as the Director of the Telecommunications Division of the Maryland Public Service Commission. Rick oversaw the Telecommunications Division at a time when Maryland became one of the first states to allow local exchange competition. While at the Commission he managed a professional staff of accountants, economists, and engineers and provided expert testimony on behalf of the staff.
Rick also worked for two and a half years at the Florida Public Service Commission with an emphasis on issues related to competition and emerging competition.
He holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Economics from the University of Florida where he studied public utility economics in association with the Public Utility Research Center (PURC) at the University of Florida.
Rick is also a former Jeopardy TV game show winner.
April 2005