EAGLE VIEW - Key Persons
Andrew Kreig is a Washington, DC-based commentator, drawing on his careers in law, business, journalism and non-profit advocacy. Currently, he is Executive Director of the Justice Integrity Project, created to improve oversight of federal white-collar prosecutions.
As President and CEO of the Wireless Communications Association International from 1996 until 2008, Kreig led its evolution into the premier worldwide advocate for high-capacity wireless services. Such services include tech-enabled efficiencies in community economic development, education, green technology, health care, military preparedness and public safety protections for homeland security. Previously, he authored many bylined news and magazine articles, plus the pioneering 1987 book "Spiked: How Chain Management Corrupted America's Oldest Newspaper."
Listed in numerous Who's Who volumes since the mid-1990s, he has lectured on five continents about communications issues and has been active in civic affairs in Washington. He holds degrees from Yale Law School and University of Chicago School of Law. He was a research fellow in 2009 with both the Information Economy Project at George Mason School of Law and the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.
His previous employers include the global law firm Latham & Watkins, Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf in Massachusetts, Connecticut House Speaker Irving Stolberg, and the Hartford Courant newspaper in Connecticut
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Chairman of the Mc
John Edward Hurley is Chairman of the McClendon Group, which is named for the legendary White House correspondent Sarah McClendon and meets in the McClendon Room at the National Press Club. His career in the journalism and non-profit world has included his work with the major media as a White House correspondent, as a commentator on News Talk America, and as a member of the Public Information Committee of the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to his work with the major media, he has served as the Commander of the National Press Club American Legion Post; developed the public relations program that brought together the various breed registries that comprise the American Horse Council; and was a long-time sponsor of the Rappahannock Hunt and the Thornton Hill Hounds.
He also is President and Chairman of the Confederate Memorial Association's museum and library, the historian for the John Barry Division of the Hibernians, and a co-founder of the Capitol Hill Civil War Roundtable. Some of his more enthusiastic current activities include his service on the National Press Club's History and Heritage Committee and his Medical Musical Group board service, which provides live symphony orchestra performances for veterans. Throughout his career, he has had a special interest in the integrity of the court system and has hosted many news events on the subject, which have included coverage by C-SPAN from the National Press Club.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- NBC Reporter, Writer and News Editor
- Reporter at CBS News
Kelly is a Manhattan resident who serves on the boards of the New York Symphonic and the Japan-U.S. Concert Society. He co-produced at Carnegie Hall the Japanese classic Mandara. The performance showcased 58 monks of the Shingon sect that had never traveled as a group outside Japan in its 1,150-year history. Also, Kelly has co-produced events at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and in Japan. The latter included a concert of Western Hemisphere classical music at the Itsukushima Shrine on Miya Jima off the coast of Hiroshima, the first time such a concert had been held at the shrine since it was constructed more than 1,400 years ago.