Gardner H. Foster

Prior to joining private practice, Gardner played a lead advocacy role in licensing and regulatory proceedings as a principal at a leading aerospace company and as a senior counsel provided advice, guidance and advocacy on spectrum policy matters at a mobile network operator.

Before entering the private sector, Gardner spent over a decade in the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission. As Assistant Bureau Chief, he served as Legal and Policy Counsel to the Bureau Chief for all Satellite Division-related functions, played a lead role in evaluating mergers, transfers of control and acquisitions of telecommunications companies, co-chaired the agency’s Inter-Bureau Cyber Security Policy Working Group, and lead proceedings on promoting the terrestrial mobile broadband use of Mobile Satellite System (MSS) spectrum.