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Mr. McGrail serves as Sr. Consultant for the Government Insight Group, Telecommunications Insight Group and as of Counsel to Kerbey Harrington LLP. Mr. McGrail brings a unique industry understanding in telecommunications and transportation.
Mr. McGrail served as the Undersecretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, General Counsel for the Executive Office of Transportation, and Assistant to the Commissioner of the Massachusetts Highway Department, Chief of Staff at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and General Counsel at the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. Mr. McGrail has been a part of many of the most important development and transportation projects in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In the telecommunications arena, Mr. McGrail has negotiated telecommunications franchises throughout New England and negotiated essential infrastructure agreements for several large scale land developments.
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Prior to joining Government Insight Group, Mr. Capuano served as Deputy Chief of Staff for the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, and a Project Manager for the Massachusetts Permit Regulatory Office. He managed commercial and mixed-use development projects and worked with government agencies to facilitate permitting and regulatory matters.
Mr. Capuano has worked on several successful political campaigns including Deval Patrick for Governor and those of his father, Congressman Michael Capuano. In 2012, Mr. Capuano was promoted to the position of manager of GIG’s lobbying and government affairs activities, replacing Gregg Nolan who departed GIG after six successful years with the firm.
Mr. Capuano is a graduate of Boston College and is currently enrolled in the Certificate Program at Northeastern University’s Business School in Boston.
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Paul C. Trane is the lead Consultant for the Telecommunications Insight Group practice. Mr. Trane is a nationally recognized leader on telecommunications. In addition to his role for TIG, Mr. Trane serves as Government Insight Group’s honorary Chief Inspiration Officer and manages Kerbey Harrington LLP.
From an owner-builder of large scale fiber optic networks to negotiating cable television and telecommunications licenses throughout the country to serving as an expert witness on telecommunications, Mr. Trane has been involved in all aspects of the modern telecommunications industry.
Mr. Trane has provided expert testimony on many aspects of telecommunications to the United States congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and regulatory bodies throughout the United States. Mr. Trane frequently provides comments to major media outlets. He has appeared on National Public Radio, Bloomberg Radio, CBS Sunday Morning and has been quoted extensively in the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, The Boston Herald, The Boston Business Journal, The Los Angeles Business Journal, Multichannel News, The Wall Street Journal and many other trade publications. In 2005, Mr. Trane brought together the personnel to form the Government Insight Group team (GIG). GIG is engaged in the practice of government affairs and is managed by lobbyist Joseph Capuano.
Mr. Trane’s has vast experience in political campaigns, government, and issues management. Mr. Trane has experienced unique success for clients at all levels of government. Taking the words of Tip O’Neil “All politics is local” as a foundation, Mr. Trane has served as Communications Director for the Mayor of one of Massachusetts’ largest cities and a Senior Campaign Advisor to successful campaigns for local, state and federal offices. Mr. Trane is an active fundraiser for a variety of organizations and candidates throughout the United States. Mr. Trane is a member of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s finance team, Massachusetts State Auditor Suzanne Bump’s finance committee, serves as Congressman Michael Capuano’s (D-8 MA) finance chair, is a member of Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s Cabinet 100 Team and serves on several non profit board of directors.
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Mr. Parr is a strategic business leader, attorney and equity investor, who has advised, created and led successful organizations in the private, public and not for profit sectors. He has achieved performance improvements and objectives and increased entity value through a combination of analysis, innovation, advocacy, process and communications enhancement, team building and management. Most recently, he took over a poorly performing public company with a long history in manufacturing and technology, and remade it into the largest and most successful independent global provider of systems for the early identification of breast cancer. Prior to that, Mr. Parr served as CEO and as General Counsel for several high-technology corporations in high growth or turn-around situations and as a business attorney providing counsel in financing, organizational, strategic and contractual issues.
Mr. Parr also has significant experience in government and politics. He has set up and run local government and state programs in employment, education and environmental sectors and has served as a senior campaign executive for several state and federal political campaigns. Most recently, he was Campaign Chairman in a US Congressional race. Mr. Parr began his public service as a Senate Investigator for United States Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (Watergate Committee).
Mr. Parr is active in local government relations and advocacy, telecommunications licensing, personal emergency response device licensing, business formation and finance and energy. Mr. Parr obtained his J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (where he was a Littauer Scholar) and an A.B. in Economics from Brown University. He has been a Lecturer in Public Management at the College of the Holy Cross, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Harvard University School of Public Heath.