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Tag It CEO Eric de Fontenay has spent his career understanding and developing solutions for the emerging telecommunications and digital markets. In his role as a consultant, Mr. de Fontenay has worked on a wide range of issues in the telecommunications sector as the industry made the transition towards competition. His focus on regulatory, technology and strategic analysis has brought him to address challenges that have received focused attention in one area of the world or another. This has included his involvement in negotiating and influencing the direction of interconnection in New Zealand, the provision of video services in the U.S. and Australia, and the use of the holding company structure to address key regulatory issues to name a few. In this capacity, Mr. de Fontenay has worked for major carriers in the industry such as France Telecom, US West, NTT and Telstra as well as government agencies in the US, Europe and Oceania. With the emergence of the Internet, his work increasingly turned to the study of broadband technologies and markets, and their impact on the existing industry and regulatory structures in the industry.