Mr. Ron Nathan

Ron Nathan

THG Consultants, LLP
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Ron Nathan

Mr. Nathan and his international telecommunications, energy and financial service consulting firm, Washington Strategic Advisors LLC ("WSA"), bring to The Helein Law Group vast experience and years of legal, business and international consulting.

Mr. Nathan's business and consulting activities concentrate, primarily, on matters originating in the former Soviet Union and Eastern and Central Europe.WSA companies (which include lawyers, economists and finance specialists) have been involved, extensively, in the telcom, energy industries through business and entrepreneurial assignments and have also been retained as consultants to governments and corporation in each of the above-noted industry sectors, most notably, telecommunications.

Mr. Nathan has personally been active in the telecommunications industry for his entire legal and business career.His experience includes 1) a strong background in telecommunications law and regulatory economics (including twelve years as a Washington, D.C. regulatory attorney); 2) experience as a telecommunications and legal consultant to governments (Georgia, Albania, Romania and Bulgaria) and companies seeking to operate in the CIS telcom sector; and 3) a record as a successful telecommunications businessman.These latter efforts included designing and implementing a telcom development project in Georgia (former Soviet republic) and operating profitable telecommunications businesses in the United States, Russia and, most recently, Japan.Each of these activities involved, by necessity, an immersion in national and international telcom regulation, tariff modeling and the application of international telecommunications practices to a unique local business and regulatory environment.

After receiving a Master's Degree in Economics from the London School of Economics, Mr. Nathan attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School and received his law degree in 1970.After completing a judicial clerkship on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Mr. Nathan joined the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold and Porter in 1973 and spent five years in the firm's regulatory and antitrust litigation division.In this capacity, Mr. Nathan represented clients in federal and state courts and before regulatory agencies regarding, primarily, matters of regulatory compliance.These clients included U.S. and international telecommunications providers (e.g., AT&T and Deutsche Telecom) with regulatory and tariff issues before the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") as well as clients facing complaints of anti-competitive practices by the Antitrust Division of U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

While a full-time practicing attorney Mr. Nathan also taught courses at the American University Law School, was a special consultant to the Interstate Commerce Commission's Office of Regulatory and Public Policy (the ICC's "Public Counsel") and received a Presidential Appointment from President Jimmy Carter (which was confirmed by the United States Senate) to the Board of Directors of the National Rail Passenger Corporation ("Amtrak").As a Director of AMTRAK for over four years, Mr. Nathan chaired the Board's Legal Affairs and Finance Committees, the former involving overseeing and approving AMTRAK's federal regulatory policies.

As a telecommunications businessman and entrepreneur, Mr. Nathan obtained financing and managed a number of private sector opportunities in the U.S., Russian and Japanese telecommunications industries, including businesses in long distance resale, cellular telephone and Internet access.

In 1993, Mr. Nathan and a group of Russian businessmen formed Russian Wireless Telephone, Inc., a Delaware company that, in a three-year period and through Russian operating subsidiaries, obtained licenses and built operating assets in Russian local, long distance and Internet sectors.The first subsidiary, a Moscow/St.Petersburg-based domestic and international long distance company (Corbina), was one of the first licensed Russian long distance resellers and competitor, of sorts, to Rostelcom.From 1994-1997, Mr. Nathan lived in Moscow for approximately six months a year and was responsible for all aspects of the Russian companies' business activities, including international and Russian tariff and rate issues, negotiations with Russian and international operators and purchasing and importing telecommunications equipment into the Russian Federation.

Mr. Nathan also has extensive experience in providing legal and consulting services to governments in Central and Southern Europe on matters relating to telecommunications policy and their ministries' initial consideration of telcom demonopolization and reform.Mr. Nathan undertook these consulting assignments as a special adviser on telecommunications policy and regulation to the International Republican Institute ("IRI"), and American non-governmental organization that receives most of its funding from the U.S. National endowment for Democracy.For a four-year period, Mr. Nathan worked with IRI and was responsible for the drafting of telecommunications position papers, regulatory analyses and strategic recommendations concerning the Georgian, Albanian, Romanian, and Bulgarian telcom sectors.

During the first six months of 2001, Mr. Nathan was retained as a telecommunications consultant by the Amway Corporation, the world's largest multi-level marketing company, and its Japanese subsidiary, Amway Japan Ltd.In that capacity, Mr. Nathan supervised a staff of U.S. and Japanese telcom professionals and marketing personnel in the design implementation of a proprietary and integrated Internet/telecommunications network for use by Amway's one million distributor families throughout Japan.

Ron Nathan's expertise is in international telecommunications, energy and financial services.His own consulting firm, Washington Strategic Advisors LLC ("WSA") concentrates primarily on matters originating in the former Soviet Union and Eastern and Central Europe and Japan.WSA has also been retained as consultants to governments and corporations in each of the above-noted industry sectors.

Mr. Nathan holds a Master's Degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.He has served as a law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, then joined the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold and Porter where he spent five years in the firm's regulatory and antitrust litigation division.

Mr. Nathan has an academic background as well as having taught courses at the American University Law School, served as a special consultant to the Interstate Commerce Commission's Office of Regulatory and Public Policy (the ICC's "Public Counsel") and received a Presidential Appointment from President Jimmy Carter (confirmed by the United States Senate) to the Board of Directors of the National Rail Passenger Corporation ("Amtrak").
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As a Director of Amtrak for over four years, Mr. Nathan chaired the Board's Legal Affairs and Finance Committees.