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Jeffrey Sinsheimer has more than 22 years of experience in the cable and telecommunications arena, including 17 years with the state's leading cable trade organization. During his 17 years with CCTA, Mr. Sinsheimer worked in both Oakland and Sacramento representing the interests of cable television operators, programmers and technology providers. He has extensive experience advocating and litigating cable, Internet, telecommunications, tax, constitutional, antitrust, intellectual property, consumer class action and political law issues before the Legislature, Congress, local governments and in Federal and state courts. As part of the CCTA team, Mr. Sinsheimer lobbied and negotiated provisions of the state franchising law for cable companies that passed in 2006, as well as terms on late fees, theft of service, privacy and customer service laws passed by the state legislature. He was also a central figure in creating a regulatory and tax environment that encouraged broadband deployment by cable operators. Throughout his career, Mr. Sinsheimer has spoken extensively at industry and public forums on all manner of cable- and telecommunications-related issues. He earned his J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law (1985) and his A.B. in history from University of California, Berkeley (1980). | 