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GENE KOPROWSKI Registered Arbitrator And Lawyer (England and Wales) US Address: 409 North McKinley Avenue, Champaign, Ill. 61821 E-Mail: publishing01@aol.com
EDUCATION • Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Master of Laws (LLM), Financial and E-Commerce Law (2011), magna cum laude, San Diego. • Completed qualifying law courses on the barrister training track at The University of London (1999-2000) in: Contracts Law, Criminal Law, Public and Administrative Law, Torts Law, and the English legal system, which is the preferred governing law for most international commercial arbitration proceedings. • The University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Master of Intellectual Property Law for licensure as an intellectual property attorney in England Wales, Australia, New Zealand (Expected 2024). • The University of Chicago, Master of Arts (2005). • Northwestern University (and Columbia College), Bachelor of Arts (1987), Evanston, Ill. SKILLS Public Policy and Regulatory Research. Corporate Contract Writing. Regulatory Legal Analysis. Editing. Project Management, including Communication, Leadership, Risk Management, Time Management, Organization, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Adaptability. Arbitration of Commercial Disputes. ARBITRATION TRIBUNAL ENROLLMENT • Public Arbitrator, Certified by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Arbitration of investor-broker disputes in court-like setting. 2022 to Present. Part-time. • Registered Arbitrator, Appointed by The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, one of Europe’s leading alternative dispute resolution (ADR) tribunals. Specialist in IP law, including media licensing and talent contracts. 2022-Present. Part-time. • Public Arbitrator, Appointed by the National Futures Association (NFA), operating under the authority of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 2022-Present. Part-Time. LAWYER (ENGLAND AND WALES PER LEGAL SERVICES ACT OF 2007) • Available to undertake all unreserved legal services, including drafting and reviewing contracts and agreements and licensing deals, advising on regulatory and policy issues, constitutional law matters, and other unreserved legal activities for my employer, Transcendence Pictures, Ltd., a company registered with Companies House in U.K. • Successfully prosecuted breach of contract, applied assumpsit, trademark infringement, and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) cases against the following Defendants: 1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, 2011) before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, a federal U.S. tribunal:https://www.asbca.mil/Decisions/2011/57267_022511_PUBLISHED.pdf
2. Core States Holdings, Ontario Superior Court, Toronto (2022). 3. Huffington Post/Buzzfeed, His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals, London, County Court Business Center, Civil Money Claims (2022). 4. City of New Orleans, U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. 5. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission/Illinois Department of Human Rights (2022) MOOT COURT, PRO-BONO ARBITRATION CASE RULINGS • Presiding Arbitrator, Foreign Direct Investment Arbitration Moot, sponsored by the law firm Skadden, Arps at the University of London. Judged two foreign direct investment cases (FDI) on the subject of claims under international tax treaties. October 2022. Collaborated with other arbitrators in Singapore, London, Madrid, and Sao Paulo via Zoom and heard cases from four, two-lawyer prosecution and defense teams. • Arbitrator, Willem C. Vis International Moot Court Arbitration, at Loyola University School of Law, Chicago, February 2023. Sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London. Judged one arbitration case concerning an international investment and tax treaty. GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE Commissioner, Mandated Health Care Benefits Commission, Office of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2010 to 2014. Nominated by the Governor and confirmed unanimously by the General Assembly to serve as a health policy advisor to the Governor of Virginia and the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security Disability programs. This was a state-wide, part-time, but Assistant-to-the-Governor-rank position (e.g. Cabinet-Level) with executive and adjudicatory powers. Non-partisan position. Deputy Assistant to the Governor-Elect, December 2009-January 2010. Served as Deputy Assistant to the Governor-Elect, Robert F. McDonnell, during the transition for two weeks after the election in Richmond, Va. Worked with incoming Cabinet officers and Policy Director on setting health care policy strategy for the forthcoming four-year term of the governor. MAJOR MEDIA EXPERRIENCE, 2014-Present Gene Koprowski is an award-winning journalist with 35 years of experience in print, digital media, and broadcast media. He’s worked in Washington D.C., New York City, and Chicago, with overseas assignments in London, Paris and Amsterdam for major media outlets. His artistic aesthetic embodies precision, elegance, and drama. Recent projects: Executive Producer, Director and Writer: • The Cotton Club: The Musicians' Story (2022) earned the Communitas Award for public service. Airing during black history month on PBS Utah and Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), the documentary also earned a Best Director Award from the Hermes Creative Awards. And a Telly Award for outstanding documentary film research. Executive Producer, Director, and Writer: • A recent documentary film he wrote, directed, and produced,On With the Show: Eighty Years of Bugs Bunny Cartoons and Classical Music debuted on WTVP/PBS in the fall of 2020, and earned an international Telly Award for best archival research in 2021 as well as a Davey Award (2020) for best TV producing by a boutique production company. The film also earned the Videographer Award/Viddy Award (2021) and the Marketing Communications Award Gold Medal/Marcom Award (2021) for best TV program. Executive Producer, Director, Writer: • Another recent film produced, directed, and written by Gene, The Frank Capra Story: A Wonderful Life, debuted on WTTW/PBS in the fall of 2018, and also earned a Telly Award (2019) for best archival research. This film was awarded the Back by Demand/Audience Award as the fans' favorite documentary film at the American Documentary Film Festival (spring 2019) in Palm Springs, California. The film made its silver screen debut there at the famed Camelot Theater. Those award-winning documentaries also were streamed online nationally over PBS Passport and the PBS App. Executive Producer, Host and Writer: • Gene also writes, edits, produces, directs and serves as host for the NPR interview series, GeoPolitics Radio (2021-Present), which features interviews with leading newsmakers like White House National Security Advisor John Bolton and Lord Purvis of the House of Lords in the U.K. Distributed through PRX/Public Radio Exchange. From 2020 through 2022, President and Executive Producer: • Gene was President and Executive Producer of Fox News Radio Chicago, a streaming radio station and affiliate of the Fox News Radio Network of 500 AM and FM and online stations founded by Rupert Murdoch. The station provided news and feature updates throughout the day. 2014-2023. During his media career, Gene has interviewed major world leaders and CEOs, including: • Vice President Gore, at the White House West Wing, for Forbes. • President Obama, on the telephone, for an independent news wire. • Vice President Cheney at the RNC for WCIU-TV. • CIA Director Stansfield Turner for The Chicago Tribune. • NASA Administrator Richard Truly for PBS-TV. • NIH Director Bernadine Healy for PBS-TV. • NIH Division Director Anthony Fauci for Washington Technology. • Czech President Vaclev Klaus at the Presidential Palace in Prague for Fox News Channel (online edition). • Steve Case of AOL for Forbes. • Bill Gates of Microsoft for Forbes. • Bob Frankenberg at Novell for Forbes. • White House economic advisor Laura Tyson for Forbes. • White House national security advisor John Bolton for NPR via PRX. • CIA Director Steven Woolsey for New Technology Week. • White House/US Trade Representative Mickey Cantor for Forbes. • FCC Chairman Reed Hundt for Forbes. • Federal Reserve Board Member Larry Lindsey for Forbes. • Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick for The Wall Street Journal. • Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) for The Wall Street Journal. • Jerry Yang and David Filo, founders of Yahoo!, for The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Koprowski has been Executive Producer, Director, and Writer of Transcendence Pictures, Ltd., a non-profit corporation, from January 2014 to the Present, full-time. PRIOR MEDIA EXPERIENCE Gene began his career as a staff producer-writer on PBS-TV nationally syndicated program, TechnoPolitics, working with famed Peabody Award-winning producers Neal B. Freeman (a protégé of William F. Buckley) and Andy Walworth. The program aired on more than 400 PBS affiliates and was based in Washington D.C. in the 1990s near DuPont Circle from 1988-1994. The following full-time contract journalism positions from 1987 to 2014 were all 40 hours a week in total with major media organizations, and generated more than 4,000 bylined articles, columns and broadcast and digital segments by Mr. Koprowski: • Writer/Producer: Fox News Channel Interactive (2006-2014). • Columnist: United Press International (UPI) (2000-2006). • Feature Writer: Forbes Magazine ASAP (1995-2000). • Weekend Producer: CBS News Radio/WBBM-AM Chicago (1997-2000). • Columnist: The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition (1995-2003). • Feature Writer: The Washington Post High Tech Horizons (1997-2003). • Columnist: Entrepreneur Magazine (1999-2001). • Associate Producer: The McLaughlin Group, a PBS/NBC production, Washington D.C., Line produced half-hour episodes of the nationally syndicated talk show recorded at NBC Studios (1989). • Field Producer: Dossier Justice (The Justice File), a reality TV series on Switzerland's /RTS-1, the French-language network owned by Radio Télévision Suisse. (1996). • Columnist/Chicago Bureau Chief: Asia Times Newspaper, Bangkok, (1995-1997). • Columnist/Capitol Hill Bureau Chief: Washington Technology Newspaper/Washington Post (1988-1990). • Front Page Feature Writer: Investor's Business Daily (1994-1997). • Feature Writer: Wired Magazine/Wired.com/Hot
Wired (1994-2000). • New York Bureau Reporter: Fairchild Publications: American Metal Market/Metalworking News (A Division of ABC News) 1987-1988. Gene also executive produced a direct-to-DVD feature film, with a foreign director, the horror film genre spoof Headcrusher (1999) which was distributed by Amazon Prime. The completion of that feature film was covered by the Producers Guild of America's prestigious journal, Above-the-Line. MEDIA AWARDS • Emmy Award Nomination (2008) for Fox News Channel Digital/Technology Desk. • Telly Award (2019) for the Frank Capra Story: A Wonderful Life. • Back by Demand/Audience Favorite Award, The Frank CapraStory (2019), American Documentary Film Festival, Palm Springs, Calif. (An Oscar-Qualifying Film Festival.) • Telly Award (2021) for On with The Show: Eighty Years of Bugs Bunny and Classical Music. • Davey Award (2020) for On with the Show: Eighty Years of Bugs Bunny and Classical Music. • Gold Medal (2021), Marketing Communications International Awards (Marcom Gold Medal) forOn with the Show: Eighty Years of Bugs Bunny and Classical Music. • Platinum Award Medal (2021), The Videographer Awards for On with the Show doc. • Gold Medal/Healthcare Industry Advertising Awards (2008). Client: FDA, • Honorable Mention/Healthcare Industry Advertising Awards (2009). Client:Shepherd Medical/CVS. • Gold Medal/Service Industry Advertising Awards (2009): Client: U.S. Border Patrol/WTOP- AM. • Associated Press Editors/Investigative Reporting Award (1988). • Best Director (Honorable Mention) for The Cotton Club (2022) from the Hermes CreativeAwards. • Best Movie Trailers (Gold Medal, 2022) for the Cotton Club, The Frank Capra Story, and On with the Show from the Hermes Creative Awards. • Telly Award (2022) for best documentary research for the Cotton Club. • The Communitas Award for Best Humanitarian Film/The Cotton Club (2022). RELEVANT WRITING SAMPLES: https://www.upi.com/topic/Gene_Koprowski/