Bio:
Karlyn Stanley is Executive Vice President of BG Fund, L.P., a private equity investment fund. She provides regulatory strategy and Washington counsel for companies in which the Fund has invested, particularly in the areas of health care technology, communications and new media.

Prior to joining the BG Fund in January 2006, Ms. Stanley was an equity partner in the communications and technology law firm of Cole, Raywid & Braverman in Washington, D.C., where she developed the firm's practice in the area of emerging technologies such as an alternative to cellular transmission towers, radio frequency identification (RFID) applications with cellular phones, and Gamewood's electronic medical record (EMR) applications. In addition, she assisted clients from the wireless, wire line and cable industries in successfully resolving regulatory and commercial disputes, both nationally and internationally. In September 2004, she was named a "Star of the Bar" by the Wome n's Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

Ms. Stanley was a Senior Attorney at AT&T before joining Cole, Raywid & Braverman in 1997. She was the principal advocate for AT&T in major, litigated regulatory proceedings that resulted from the Telecommunications Act of 1996. She joined AT&T after serving as a Senior Associate at the national law firm of Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges and as a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. Ms. Stanley was selected for the Attorney General's Honors program at the Department of Justice following a federal clerkship for the Honorable Fred B. Ugast, Chief Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. She received her law degree from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., in 1983, and her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, magna cum laude, in 1974.

Ms. Stanley was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Technology Lawyers Association (formerly the Computer Law Association) in 1999, and continues to serve as a member of the Board. She was also elected to the Steering Committee of the Women in Wireless Leadership Forum in 2003 and 2004. She was appointed co-chair of the On-Line Communications Committee of the Federal Communications Bar Association during 2000-20003. She has served on the Board of Directors of Gamewood since its inception.