Steven E. Turner

Professional Background

Mr. Steven E. Turner serves as Senior Managing director at FTI consulting Inc. Mr. Turner served as Managing Director of the FTI Network Industries Strategies group within the Economic Consulting practice FTI Consulting, Inc. Mr. Turner has a long and distinguished career working in the telecommunications industry. He has provided extensive expert testimony in technical and financial areas related to telecommunications specifically addressing contracts, terms and conditions, telecommunications network investment and operations costs, and other related issues. In 1987, Mr. Turner joined AT&T and, during his career there, held a variety of engineering, operations, and management positions. These positions covered the switching, transport, and signaling disciplines within AT&T. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Turner worked in AT&T responsible for AT&T's entry into the local infrastructure market and developed models evaluating AT&T's potential market entry alternatives including switch and fiber builds, hybrid fiber-coax service, broadband fixed wireless, and others. While in this organization, Mr. Turner gained familiarity with many of the regulatory issues surrounding AT&T's local market entry, including issues concerning the unbundling of incumbent local exchange company networks. Mr. Turner was on the AT&T team that negotiated with SBC concerning unbundled network element definitions and methods of interconnection. From 1997 to 2006, Mr. Turner was President of his own consulting firm, Kaleo Consulting. Kaleo Consulting was a boutique consulting firm specializing in providing expert testimony in technical and financial areas related to telecommunications. His projects involved issues related to contractual terms and conditions between telecommunications service providers, the costs for network elements including interoffice transport, collocation, loops (media used to connect to customer premises), switching, signaling, and other related areas. His consulting assignments also included the responsibility of negotiating interconnection agreement terms and conditions between new entrants and incumbents or negotiating settlements with numerous companies including AT&T and Verizon. To the extent that these contracts required the inclusion of rates for telecommunications services, he developed and/or evaluated numerous models pertaining to the development of network component costs. Mr. Turner holds an MBA with a concentration in Finance from Georgia State University. He has also received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University.