Candidate for
School Director; Hampton Township School District

David A. Gurwin currently is a School Director in the Hampton Township School District. He is the current chair of the Student Affairs Committee.

Mr. Gurwin is an attorney and Shareholder with the national law firm of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, resident in both the Firm's Pittsburgh and New York City offices. He is Chair of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney's Technology Transactions Group. A professional jazz pianist himself, he also is Chair of the Firm's Entertainment, Media & Sports Law Group. He also is a member of the Emerging Companies Group. Mr. Gurwin represents clients in a broad variety of industries, with a particular focus on Internet, computer and technology clients, as well as those involved in the entertainment, media and sports industries.

In the technology arena, Mr. Gurwin represents and has represented clients in a broad variety of industries including Internet, e-commerce, software and information technology, biomedical, health care, advertising, consumer products, manufacturing, insurance and retail in connection with licensing and other business transactions involving the sale, acquisition, and commercial exploitation of software, biotech, and other technology assets.

In the entertainment and sports industries, his clients include and have included video game developers, film producers, musicians, record companies, recording artists, record producers, concert promoters, songwriters, music publishers, advertising and interactive agencies, fine artists, authors, literary publishers, television personalities, broadcasters, webcasters, playwrights, video production companies, arts organizations, professional athletes and sports organizations, including National Football League and Major League Soccer teams. He also practices extensively in the areas of copyright, trademark and intellectual property law.

In addition to his law practice, Mr. Gurwin is an Adjunct Professor of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center and also is an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy & Management, where he teaches a course on Law and the Arts in the Master of Arts Management Program.

Mr. Gurwin received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree, summa cum laude, from The Ohio State University in 1982. He received his Juris Doctor degree, with honors in Law, from The Ohio State University in 1985, where he served as Article Editor of The Ohio State Law Journal and was elected to The Order of the Coif.

He is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and before the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

He is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association and The International Technology Law Association. He is a Past-Chair of the Allegheny County Bar Association's Arts and Law Section. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Pittsburgh, a member of the Board of Advisors of Carnegie Mellon University's Arts and Culture Observatory and a member of the Information Technology Network Advisory Board for the Pittsburgh Technology Council. He is also Musical Director and a member of the Board of Directors of Adat Shalom Synagogue.

Mr. Gurwin is a co-author of Inside the Minds: The Legal Sides of Entertainment, Sports, & Media, Aspatore Books (2004). He is also the author of Information Technology Consulting and Other Professional Services Agreements: Line by Line, Aspatore Books (2005). He is a frequent lecturer and author on the subjects of Internet and computer law, entertainment law and intellectual property law.