Marc-Anthony Signorino is Director and Counsel of Technology and Environmental Policy, as well as the Director of State Government Affairs at AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association), in Washington, D.C. At AeA, Mr. Signorino advises Congress and various Executive Branch agencies on issues ranging from e-commerce and telecom legislation to intellectual property law and environmental policy. Mr. Signorino also chairs a number of committees in AeA’s State Policy Action Network (SPAN), a grassroots state lobbying effort for the high–tech industry, coordinating the efforts of AeA’s 18 regional offices across the country with over 2,500 member companies. Mr. Signorino’s SPAN Committees include Online Privacy/Spam, Broadband Deployment, E-waste, and Intellectual Property. Mr. Signorino is also the Project Director for AeA’s RFID Initiative, a systematic program for addressing the issues surrounding the increasing applications and use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology both in the US and abroad.

Prior to AeA, Mr. Signorino was employed by eBay as a Policy Analyst in their Washington, DC Government Affairs office. Mr. Signorino worked on such issues as Database Protection, Online Privacy, and Online Consumer Protection, as well as coordinated eBay’s political efforts. 

Mr. Signorino has also served as Executive Vice President of Forum Provisions, a Boston area food brokerage. Prior to that, he was a Copywriter at Mullen Advertising & Public Relations, writing ads and PR pieces for Reebok Golf, Digital Electronics Corporation, Timberland, and Rolls Royce/Bentley Automobiles. He was awarded two New England Hatch Awards for Advertising Excellence. 

Mr. Signorino studied law both at Georgetown University Law Center and Northeastern University School of Law, the latter of which granted him a Juris Doctorate. He received his Bachelors of Science at Boston University’s College of Communication, where he was an International Radio & Television Society Scholar and the recipient of Boston University’s Scarlet Key Award.