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Brian Regan, Chief Legal & Regulatory Officer

AURA’s Chief Legal & Regulatory Officer Brian Regan leverages his unique background with more than 15 years in telecom and tech to lead the company’s legal and compliance functions, as well as its business development efforts. In addition to executing regulatory strategies, Brian leads customer solutions, where he assists partners in their journeys to achieve certification with federal agencies. His professional experience spans both public and private sectors – from leading spectrum policy development for the U.S. government to helping lead a telecom startup from early stage through public listing.

Brian’s public sector experience includes several senior positions in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), including Associate Bureau Chief and Chief of Staff. While he was principally responsible for development and execution of policies regarding spectrum access, spectrum sharing, and 5G, he also represented the FCC in intergovernmental coordinating efforts with the Executive Branch, the Department of Defense (DOD), the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and other agencies.

Brian joined AURA from Starry, where he was Executive Vice President of Strategy and Chief of Staff. He helped lead the fixed wireless equipment developer and broadband provider from pre-revenue, to growth, to public listing. Primarily responsible for strategy development and execution, he managed local, state, and federal regulatory efforts, which included spectrum and subsidy auction participation as well as several winning decisions before the FCC. In addition to helping secure several hundred million dollars in venture capital investments, he helped the company negotiate and execute strategic partnerships and managed both its public listing and board processes.

During his Starry tenure, Brian was a member of the executive committee and the treasurer of the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC), a DOD contracting vehicle awarded with $2.5 billion to conduct research, development, and prototyping of next-generation wireless technologies and applications. As part of the NSC, he was also the private-sector co-chair of the Partnering to Advance Trusted and Holistic Spectrum Solutions Task Group, which is aiding the Pentagon in its analysis regarding future shared use of the 3.1-3.45 GHz band. Previously, he led federal, state, and local policy as well as regulatory development and execution for WIA-The Infrastructure Association.

Brian received a BS in Economics from the University of Delaware and a JD from the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law.