Georgia Graves is proud to serve as President and CEO of Bridgman Communications, Inc. a company which she started and is celebrating its 25th year of business excellence. The firm has consistently delivered superior 24 hour 7 day a week service to the business community in the Washington Metropolitan Area by selling, installing, and maintaining business telephone systems, voice mail systems and related products.
Bridgman Communications delivers the newest IP Technology products that link corporate business centers to remote users and offices seamlessly as though they were all under one roof.

The company has over 2,000 customers with product sales, support and service for Mitel-Inter-Tel, Samsung, and Allworx. Bridgman Communications has successfully supported over the years such products as Avaya, Nortel, NEC, 3Com, and Toshiba. The firm maintains an extensive inventory to support older products in the marketplace and has developed and supplier network to keep customer discontinued systems fully functional.

Over the last 25 years, the company’s community affiliations have included support of many nonprofit organizations by providing community resources, sponsorships, donations, and employee man-hours to groups like: The Council for the Arts of Herndon, Gabriel Homes, Alhambra House, Herndon Community Television-Channel 23, Fairfax Public Access Channel 10, 30 and 37 and projects for the Washington Dulles International Airport Rotary.

Key participation has been provided on many levels to: Committee for Dulles, The Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce, The Herndon and Dulles Regional Chambers of Commerce, The Fairfax Chamber of Commerce and the Loudoun Chamber of Commerce.

Georgia Graves, a graduate of Leadership Fairfax, the Class of 1995, has committed her corporate and personal time as well to these organizations and has been proud to have held the key position in several of these organizations over the years including Chairman of The Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce (1997-98), President Committee for Dulles (1998-2000), President of the Washington Dulles International Airport Rotary (2007-08), and she is honored to serve as the President of Fairfax Public Access (2007-08).

Georgia hobbies include marching with her husband and daughter in one of the finest patriotic organizations in our country, the American Originals Fife & Drum Corps as the group’s Drum Major. She also works a few hours a week with a Junior Fife and Drum Corps at Linton Hall School.

Georgia is married to married to Mike Graves, and her daughter Anneliese is a junior at George Mason University; they live in Herndon.

James Housel, Vice President, is an intellectual property attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  Jim joined FPA with his son in 2004, and is certified as in all areas of television production.  He has volunteered on a number of television programs, including both taped and live.  He was appointed to the Board in 2005, and served two years as a Director, the last of which he served also as the Secretary.  In 2007, Jim was again appointed to the Board and was then elected Vice President.  As Vice President, Jim is in charge of Internal Affairs, working as liaison between the Board and FPA management.  In addition, Jim chairs FPA’s Operations Committee, which makes monthly equipment purchase decisions to support station operations.  In addition to Jim’s service to FPA, he is Secretary to the Board of the Foundation for the Children of Vietnam, an international children’s charity, where he also served as co-founder and President.  In addition, prior to that service, Jim was the Director of International Relief for the Latin American Parent’s Association.  Jim holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering, an MS in Systems Engineering, a law degree from the George Washington University School of Law, and is licensed to practice in Virginia.

As a Senior Decision Support Analyst in the US Defense Space Intelligence industry, Ms. Pointer holds a degree in Industrial Psychology from Longwood University and an international certification in Facilitation from the International Association of Facilitators. Additionally, Ms. Pointer is a published author, The Desktop Encyclopedia for Facilitation. She has served on the FCAC Board of Directors since 2006 in the capacity of general Director, followed by the Director for Strategic Planning. Ms. Pointer produces the 21st Century Leadership television program.

As a member of the FCAC Board of Directors, Mr. Selim is servings as Secretary and as Parliamentarian.

Experience Record:

Howard University Assistant to the Dean , School of Communications, Washington DC.
Howard University - Budgeting Assistant III,
 Washington DC
Airways Engineering Corporation - Chief Administrator of Jeddah International Airport,
 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Airways Engineering Corporation- Administrative Assistant to the Project,
Director ( Jeddah & Riyadh International Airports, Saudi Arabia),
 Washington, DC.
UAR Embassy- Auditor
Washington, DC.
Office of The Minister of Higher Education, Syria - Administrative Assistant
Syria-Damascus..
Office of The Minister of Education, Egypt- Administrative Assistant
Cairo-Egypt

Community Service:
1.  Member of the Board of Directors of the Fairfax Public Access.
(second term).

2. Member and Past President of the Rotary Club of Falls Church.
VA. Since 1985 (perfect attendance),

3. Vice President and member of Greenway Downs Civic Association,

4. Producer of the TV Rotary Times Program (a public service program about Rotary International and how it helps Local, National and World Communities)  This program has been on Channel 10 - Fairfx Public Access (FPA)  for over 18 years.

5. Commissioner, Fairfax County Human Rights Commission 2008/2010

Bob Giarrusso has been co-host of a weekly series on Channel 10 since 2006, and joined the FCAC Board of Director in 2007. He brings more than twelve years of experience as an attorney to help ensure that FPA observes relevant contracts and agreements that govern FPA's obligations to the community, its members, and its supporters to provide high quality programming and to improve FPA's outreach and diversity.  Mr. Giarrusso is a graduate of the Catholic University's Columbus School of Law, and has a background in communications law, as well as experience working directly with the Federal Communications Commission and NTIA in examining public service, law enforcement, and emergency communications policy.  He is currently serving as the Director of Membership, and hopes to enhance the communications within our organization to heighten FPA's transparency and responsiveness to the needs of the staff, members, and community of interests whom we serve in Northern Virginia.

James B. Southworth – CTO, East by North Inc, Jim has been the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of East by North working many diverse and worldwide consulting projects for private industry, government agencies, including the law enforcement/security sectors, VC, and the broadband industry with “Hands-On” technical experience not just management. 

In his almost forty years in the all forms of the telecommunications and computing industries, Jim has held technology management and technologist positions with such key established industry players as Concentric Network/XO Communications where he held the formal title of Sr. Director Advanced Networks Services and Technologies. His professional experience spans everything from operating system software and computer security to high-speed digital transmission facilities for the telephony network, digital video and the data world.

Jim is recognized internationally as an industry expert in various Internet access technologies such as TVoIP, VoIP, DSL, two-way satellite and wireless, as well as in leading edge security and enterprise applications. He has also been in several senior high security consultative roles including to US federal law-enforcement in the Washington, DC area as well as for Interpol in Lyon, France, both involving Internet security and anti-terrorist technologies and the Virtual Private Networks that support them.

Jim advises some of the most innovative and leading-edge entrepreneurial ventures in the industry today, serving on various Board of Directors and Advisory Boards interfacing with management and Venture Capital firms.  He is also active in International not-for-profit industry standards setting including serving on the Board of Directors of the DSL Forum for four years.  He is a frequent chairman, speaker or moderator at tradeshows, conferences, and summits.  A respected Internet technologist in all the emerging technologies such as VoIP (Voice and Video over IP), he is known for his visionary technology leadership and strategy and has been recognized in EE Times as one of the twenty-one key “architects of the next generation of the Internet” in the world at that time.
http://www.eetimes.com/special/special_issues/2000/architects/default.html
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20000926S0055,

Jim has also served on the board of directors and as an officer of numerous community and civic associations and corporations. His strong visionary leadership, management, and diverse cutting edge creative technical skills have won him several awards and honors locally and nation-wide. He was the very first recipient of the Broadband Forum “Circle of Excellence” award for his international work in deploying “High-Speed” internet world-wide.