Intel’s TPS organization is working to create a policy and standards environment that enables Intel business units to achieve leadership as the preeminent building block supplier to the global Internet economy.  TPS currently has five distinct areas of focus.

• Communications Policy – Working within the International environment to establish policies that stimulate broadband deployment and accelerated adoption of a wireless IP environment.
• Digital Home Content Policy – Working within the International environment to accelerate a protected and productive digital marketplace, where premium content is protected and consumers gain access to new portable and flexible digital media content experiences.
• Trust & Security Policy – Working within the International environment to stimulate efficient use of technology in preserving security and growth of IP based solutions.
• Platform Ecology – Engaging with regulators and standards bodies in development of energy efficient platform solutions.
• Standards & Industry Group – Managing Intel’s presence in standards bodies and industry groups that develop and promote standards based innovation.

Prior to his appointment as Director of TPS in early 2004, Mr. Whiteside was Vice President, Intel Legal & Government Affairs, managing Intel’s policy activities in support of innovative new digital media environments.  Mr. Whiteside coordinated Intel’s opposition of S2048 (Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act) in the 107^th Congress, and expanding device independent access to entertainment content through the FCC Cable Plug and Play proceedings.  Prior to 2001, Mr. Whiteside held several management positions within Intel, including management of Intel’s branded consumer products business, and coordination of Intel's business relationship with the IBM Corporation.

Mr. Whiteside was born in New York, N.Y., in 1959. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tulane University in 1981. He manages TPS from Intel’s facility in Chandler, AZ; where he lives with his wife and four children.

Colin co-founded Online Resolution, one of the first online dispute resolution (ODR) providers, in 1999 and served as its CEO (2000) and President. In 2002 Colin co-founded the Online Public Disputes Project, which applied ODR to multiparty, public disputes. Previously, Colin was General Manager of Mediate.com, the largest online resource for the dispute resolution field. Colin also worked for several years with the National Institute for Dispute Resolution in Washington, D.C. and the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, MA.

Colin is the author of Online Dispute Resolution for Business, published by Jossey-Bass in September 2002. He has contributed more than 40 articles to prestigious ADR publications such as Consensus, The Fourth R, ACR News, and Peace Review. He authors the online conflict resolution column in ACResolution Magazine and contributes to odr.info, a news resource chronicling developments in the ODR field. He holds a Master's degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution and technology, a B.A. in Peace Studies from Haverford College, and he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Eritrea from 1995-1997.