Joshua is the Executive Director for the Foundation for Innovation and Internet Freedom. He has over a decade of experience working on innovation policy and as a crusader for Internet Freedom. He was an early advocate for an open Internet, working on the seminal Vonage vs. Madison River case at the FCC and authoring the first-ever introduced legislation to preserve an open Internet. He also served on the legal team at the FCC opposing the mergers of SBC with AT&T and Verizon with MCI. He led efforts on Capitol Hill to reauthorize the Internet Tax moratorium, promote a balanced copyright system, protect fair use and move forward with a national broadband deployment strategy. He played a key role early in the battle to stop SOPA and PIPA, working closely with his former boss and mentor Senator Ron Wyden to ensure PIPA did not get a vote on the Senate floor.

Prior to joining FIIF, he was the practice leader for the technology practice in the Washington, D.C. office of Hill+Knowlton Strategies. His work at H+K focused on the intersection between the high tech industry and the government, working with large multinational Internet companies, major telecommunications providers and public policy focused trade associations in the U.S., Europe and Japan.

He has significant technology industry experience, leading state, federal and international policy and public affairs at TechAmerica. He also served on Capitol Hill in a senior capacity, as Chief of Staff in the House and a top finance and budget committee counsel in the Senate. His work has brought him to the forefront of many of the key technology industry policy fights of the last decade, including tax reform, health care reform, international corporate taxation, budget reform, innovation policy, telecommunications competition and intellectual property. Joshua practiced antitrust, intellectual property and telecommunications law in New York and Washington, DC.

Joshua is an expert on economic policy, including the Federal budget and tax policy. He is a frequently quoted and sought after panelist on the economics of the Federal budget, innovation policy, tax and health care reform. His proposals while working in the Senate on tax reform and budget reform have garnered National attention, including editorial board support from many of the top newspapers in the United States.

Joshua has a Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University with High Honors where he currently serves as an alumni mentor in the Though Into Action program, teaching entrepreneurship through real world start-up lab projects to undergraduate students. He has a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan. He is a member of the bar of New York and the District of Columbia.

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