WATCH NOW: Deserve to Win Ep. 23 Drops– Is Campaign Registry’s foreign ownership a threat to national security? And what was MEF thinking? We break it down.

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Well folks, today has really been a day around here.

For those of you who missed it–and I don’t think anyone did–the MEF forum in Miami, Florida today was subject to protests.

It looks like MEF has responded by announcing new female board members, a new chairman, and a further commitment to diversity. Pretty clear victory for the firm here. I am going to spend some time overnight considering where this leaves us, as this is definitely a step in the right direction. I might wake up tomorrow and call of the dogs. We’ll see.

In the meantime though Deserve to Win (Ep. 23) is out today–coinciding with the date of the MEF forum.

As a reminder– Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) kicked Puja off a panel recently and nobody really knows why.

Following some protests at their event, President Dario Betti claimed Puja was unavailable to attend the conference–but that’s just flat untrue. But apparently a few folks have picked that up and been parroting it. NOT TRUE.

Without question the organization has a clear history of underrepresenting women in position of leadership and on panels and webinars, so outright sexism may be the culprit. But we don’t know that.

There is another option as well. The day before Puja was kicked off the panel the Czar had spoken regarding MEF member The Campaign Registry and its foreign ties. All domestic companies and politicians that want access to the American text message ecosystem need to register their campaigns with TCR–which gives them an opportunity to censor speech and assign “trust scores” limiting throughput for campaigns deemed less trustworthy.

This is all scary enough but when you layer in the foreign ownership it does raise some serious questions.

Was the Czar’s coverage of the issue what lead to Puja’s outing? Or was International Board President Dari Betti up to something else? The TCPAWorld team breaks it down in Episode 23.

Plus you’ll hear from Acquisition COO Johnny Tarone who has some very serious concerns about TCR and its alleged behavior targeting others that spoke up against it.

All of this PLUS coverage of the CFPB’s new rules and two important TCPA decisions.

AND the arrival of John Henson–who joins for his first-ever Deserve to Win Podcast!!!

You cannot miss this jam-packed episode.

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The Czar of TCPAWorld Eric Troutman is one of the country’s prominent class action defense lawyers and is nationally recognized in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation and compliance. He has served as lead defense counsel in more than 70 national TCPA class actions and has litigated nearly a thousand individual TCPA cases in his role as national strategic litigation counsel for major banks and finance companies. He also helps industry participants build TCPA-compliant processes, policies, and systems. Eric has built a national litigation practice based upon deep experience, rigorous analysis and extraordinary responsiveness. Eric and his team feel equally at home litigating multibillion dollar telecommunications class actions in federal court as they do developing and executing national litigation strategies for institutions facing an onslaught of individual TCPA matters. They thrive in each of these roles – delivering consistently excellent results – while never losing sight of the client experience. While many firms now tout TCPA expertise, Eric has been there from the beginning. He built one of the country’s first TCPA-only defense teams and began serving as national TCPA counsel for his clients nearly a decade ago. This perspective allows him to swiftly develop the right litigation strategies for dealing with recurring problems, without wasting time on tactics that are bound to fail. Eric’s rich historical perspective and encyclopedic knowledge of the TCPA landscape also make him an invaluable resource to institutional compliance teams struggling to comply with the shifting regulatory landscape. No task is too small – or too big. Indeed, Eric and his team have helped build TCPA-compliant systems and processes for some of the largest and most complex corporate entities in the country. He commonly works with in-house compliance counsel to build and implement enterprise and business-line specific TCPA solutions, performs TCPA audits and drafts and reviews proposed TCPA policies and procedures. He and his team also have the technical expertise necessary to assist call centers seeking to develop TCPA-resistant call path architecture or to modify existing telephony and software integration to better insulate from potential TCPA exposure. Eric has built a reputation for thought leadership. An avid blogger and speaker, he has been at the forefront of the industry’s effort to push for clarity and a return to sanity for the TCPA for years. He was selected to advocate for the financial services industry on important TCPA issues before the Federal Communications Commission and co-authored the nation’s only comprehensive practice guide on TCPA defense. In his spare time, Eric leads defense teams representing banks and other financial services companies in consumer finance litigation matters. He has experience representing clients in UCC, TILA, RESPA FCRA, CCRA, CLRA, FDCPA, RFDCPA and FCCPA claims, as well as in fraud and bank operations issues.

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