Catherine McCullough is Executive Director of the Intelligent Car Coalition, a group that leads discussion and advocacy on connected car public policy in Washington, DC. The Coalition, which represents auto, tech, and telecom stakeholders, works to bring the benefits of innovations at the intersection of automotive and communications technologies to consumers.

Ms. McCullough was raised in Washington and has worked in politics and policy for over twenty-five years. She speaks regularly on issues such as data use, privacy, cybersecurity, autonomous vehicles, driver attention, the government's role in technological innovation, connected car safety technologies, and more.

Ms. McCullough is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, serves on panels for conferences such as SXSW Interactive and CTIA-The Wireless Association, has appeared on shows such as The Communicators, has published op-eds for beltway publications, and is regularly interviewed by media outlets that cover connected car issues. She is an attorney and also holds degrees in Journalism and Political Science, and tweets @TechOnTires.

Prior to her work with the Coalition, Ms. McCullough worked as a government affairs consultant, and before that she served as a Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. At the Commerce Committee she worked on subcommittees that oversaw many Internet, privacy, auto safety, insurance, and consumer product liability issues.

Spierto is a Capitol Hill veteran, who joined the Auto Alliance from the IT sector association TechAmerica, where he was Director of Cybersecurity Policy. Spierto’s experience on the hill includes serving as professional staff on the House Homeland Security Committee’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies (CIPST), where he helped craft the National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2013.