John Wood, a Senior Fellow at the American Center for Democracy, is President and CEO of The Playfair Group. He graduated with honors from the University of Bristol, England, with a degree in law. Mr. Wood has 17 years of experience in the intellectual property and intangible assets arena. Previously, he was Director of E-commerce for KPMG. Mr. Wood has testified on intellectual property issues before the U.S. House of Representative's Judiciary sub-committee on IP and the Courts, as well as the World Intellectual Property Organization. He has made presentations to the American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association and the International Trademark Association. In a public advocacy role, Mr. Wood has represented AOL, BT, Microsoft, NSI, and CSSA on intellectual property-related issues.
As an expert on the Internet, he has provided consulting services to AFN, AT&T, BBC Worldwide Publishing, BT, Cable and Wireless, Glaxo-Wellcome, General Motors, Walt Disney, and Williams Communications. Mr. Wood was featured in and contributed to articles in Advertising Age, Business Week, CNET, Computer Weekly, Financial Times, Interactive Age, Legal Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal, and has made numerous appearances on BBC Radio 4 and MSNBC (Europe). He has been a member of the E-commerce and Intellectual Property Committees of the United States Chamber of International Business, as well as the International Chamber of Commerce.
