- The Ohio Wireless Association is a nonprofit organization composed of persons having a common business interest in the wireless communications industry, the purpose of which is to promote that common interest and not to engage in a regular business of a kind ordinarily carried on for profit. We are supported my membership dues and other income from activities substantially related to its exempt purpose.
- Why the OWA has evolved? The wireless industry is faced with a growing number of state-level regulatory challenges. Those challenges are not limited to one or two states, but are evolving on many different fronts, from California to Ohio, from Michigan to New York, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Florida, and elsewhere. That alone was enough to form a united front. Beyond the threat of unnecessary or damaging regulation, there were other reasons to form the Ohio Wireless Association. Just as politics are local, so is the business of our industry. We serve as a state level resource to which carriers and others can turn when they need to identify and reach out to each other. The Ohio Wireless Association can fill a void- helping members fight regulatory threats and make the crucial connections they need to advance their mutual business goals.
- Officers of the Ohio Wireless Association (Officers of the Association perform their duties on a volunteer basis)
o President - Kevin Philip (614) 286-5020
o Vice President – Todd Boyer (919) 625-5160
o Secretary – Deb Battaglia (724) 350-1000
o Treasurer – Laura Tworzydlo (440) 590-3451
o Co-Treasurer – Diana Winterhalter (614) 284-3792
- The Ohio Wireless Association has established three core committees and we are currently looking for co-chairs to manage and support the committees. Please contact one of chairman for more details or becoming a co-chair.
o Membership Social: Membership/Social Chairman – Tim Conte (610) 853-6949; the role of this committee is to improve communications and contacts between companies, individuals, and sectors within the state’s wireless industry. This committee creates, maintains a membership directory/database; recruits new members, schedules meetings/events, and works with the PR committee to inform new members of those events.
o Regulatory: Regulatory Chairman – Rick Helmbright (614) 207-6636; the role of this committee is to monitor, shape, and impact the regulatory and legislative issues on a local, regional, and state level. Responsibilities include organizing discussions with planning, zoning, and other governmental officials; organizing grassroots efforts to help shape public officials; providing updates on wireless regulation and legislation to the Association Web Master, for publication on the website
o Public Relations: Public Relation Chairman – John Werner (614) 374-9969; the role of this committee is to promote positive awareness of the wireless industry to communities, public officials, homeowners groups, and others. The primary responsibilities of this committee include the development and delivery of presentations about the benefits of the wireless industry within the state; plus general media relations activities, including but not limited to publicizing the Association’s positions on regulatory and/or legislative issues
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