Michael Hennessy Vice President, Wireless, Broadband and Content Policy TELUS
Michael Hennessy has had a lengthy career in the public and private sectors in communications, particularly in telecommunications, broadcasting, internet and wireless public policy and regulation. This experience across sectors and markets has focused primarily on the impact of competition, convergence and innovation on economic growth and consumer choice.
Michael Hennessy is currently Vice-President, Wireless, Broadband and Content Policy for TELUS and has responsibility for its public policy and regulatory strategies in areas of spectrum management, evolving internet content matters and for TELUS’ IP-based (IPTV) broadcast distribution business. He is currently a member of the Board and Vice Chair of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA), a Director of the Banff World Television Festival Board and of the Canadian Satellite Users Association (CSUA).
Prior to his work with TELUS, Mr. Hennessy served as President and CEO of the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association (CCTA). As CCTA President he was responsible for a communications and policy strategy to reposition the industry as an innovative force in the area of broadband and convergence. Mr. Hennessy was also a member of the Board and Executive Committee of the Canadian Television Fund.
Before joining the CCTA in 1999, Michael served as Vice-President, Government & Regulatory Affairs for Bell Mobility as well as Chair of the Communication Industries Forum for the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) and as a Director on the Boards of industry organizations such as Mobility Canada, CWTA and CANARIE.
Michael Hennessy began his career in the public sector, leaving it in 1995 after serving as Director General, Competition, Convergence and Social Policy in the Telecommunications Branch of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). His primary responsibilities involved policy development around deregulation and the introduction of competition into telecommunications.
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