APNIC Open Policy Meeting
Biography
Name: Tom Vest
Tom Vest is a Senior Project Manager with America Online Inc. Within the Internet Operations Division of AOL, he is responsible for international peering arrangements, international pops and distributed web cache projects, and international leased circuits. Before joining AOL in 2000, Tom worked on a variety of international projects for the PECC Telecommunciations Forum, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Office of Economic Development of the City of Los Angeles. In an earlier incarnation, Tom performed and recorded in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan with the international jazz fusion group Identity Crisis (Ziwo Fangzhu). He holds a BA in East Asian Studies from the University of Virginia, an MA in International Policitical Economy from the University of Southern California, and is currently working on his PhD dissertation in international media and telecommunications.
