With a career spanning more than three decades, Pierce’s voice has been influential in shaping the standards, architecture, and deployment of technologies critical to the continuous advancement of the telecommunications industry. Prior to Numeracle, he worked as a Systems Architecture Engineer, responsible for voice authentication development for VoIP robocalling and STIR/SHAKEN call authentication design and standards deployment.
His contributions to the industry include membership in four ATIS working groups, all three FCC North American Number Council (NANC) Call Authentication Trust Anchor (CATA) Working Groups, the Secure Telephone Identity (STI) Governance Authority (GA) Technical Committee on behalf of T-Mobile, and the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) Technical Committee. Pierce actively participated in the US Telecom Association (USTA) Industry Traceback Group (ITG), SIP Interconnection Working Group hosted by NTCA, and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (STIR) Working Group, making him an industry veteran and expert speaker for Numeracle’s discussion on KYC identity verification for call authentication.
With over two decades of experience as a leading telecommunications attorney and robocall policy expert, Keith focuses on ensuring the global regulatory environment recognizes the threat to legal communications posed by the world’s fight against illegal robocalls and texting. Keith brings experience as an attorney at the FCC, regulatory counsel for a leading global communications provider, and an in-house attorney for two of the largest carriers in the US.
For a leading global carrier, Keith was responsible for STIR/SHAKEN regulatory policy and global robocall mitigation efforts, and at two of the major US-based wireless carriers, he was the subject-matter expert on robocall policy. Keith has been an effective advocate at the FCC and Capitol Hill on a broad array of telecommunications subjects. He acted as a representative with USTelecom’s Robocall Working Group during the creation of the Industry Traceback Group, on the FCC’s Robocall Strike Force while leading policy efforts with CTIA on robocall issues, and worked with state attorneys general to prevent illegal robocalls.