People: Crown Castle International Corp (CCI)

Mr. Dale N. Hatfield is an Independent Director of Crown Castle International Corp., since July 2001. Mr. Hatfield was appointed as the Executive Director of the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group in late 2010. Mr. Hatfield is a Senior Fellow of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship and Adjunct Professor in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program, both at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to joining the University of Colorado in early 2001, Mr. Hatfield was the Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the FCC, and, immediately before that, he was the FCC’s Chief Technologist. He retired from the FCC and government service in December 2000. Following his retirement and while employed on a part-time basis at the University of Colorado, Mr. Hatfield engaged in independent consulting activities for a range of companies in the telecommunications field. Before joining the FCC in December 1997, he was CEO of Hatfield Associates, Inc., a Boulder, Colorado based multidisciplinary telecommunications consulting firm. Prior to founding Hatfield Associates in 1982, Mr. Hatfield was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Deputy Administrator of the NTIA. Before moving to NTIA, Mr. Hatfield was Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy at the FCC.