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Siebel Expands Washington Staff
by Bara Vaida
Moya Morgan is joining Siebel Systems' Washington office as a program manager. "The main focus of our government affairs work is definition and promotion of e-government, and Moya will be working on that," said Mike Maibach, Siebel's senior vice president of government affairs.
In addition, Morgan will manage Siebel's political action committee, which Maibach expects to be "pretty big." Maibach said Siebel's political action committee is part of a strategy to "elect good people who are progressive and understand the idea of e-government."
Previously, Morgan was the deputy director of the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP), an affiliation of eight CEOs who lobby on specific technology issues.
The Chairman Becomes Chairman
At CSPP, meanwhile, Dell Computers Chairman and CEO Michael Dell has been named chairman of the group for the next two years. He will lead the organization's efforts on issues such as export-control reform, trade, technology infrastructure and access, and consumer privacy.
Within CSPP, Unisys CEO Lawrence Weinbach and Compaq Computer CEO Michael Capellas will take the lead on export-control reform and digital-rights management. Intel Chairman Andy Grove and Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina will lead the group's efforts on trade policy. And NCR Chairman Lars Nyberg and Motorola CEO Christopher Galvin will focus on spectrum allocation and broadband deployment.
Inside (And Outside) Washington
Chris Peacock will be taking over Washington press relations for Cisco Systems. Peacock, who joined the company last fall as the corporate public relations manager, lives in the San Jose, Calif., area, and will be handling the Washington press job from Santa Clara, where Cisco is based.
He replaces Kent Jenkins, who left Cisco to join the D.C. office of Burson Marsteller. Before joining Cisco, Peacock directed the Health Care Financing Administration's press office and handled press affairs at the Treasury Department.
Fred Cate, a law professor at Indiana University-Bloomington and former campaign adviser to President Bush on privacy issues, also has a new link to Washington. He has joined the law firm Hunton & Williams, which recently created the Center for Information Policy Leadership to help companies develop global privacy principles. Cate will serve as its senior policy adviser and also remain a professor at Indiana University.
Elsewhere in the tech sector, after spending several years in Brussels with Intel, Malika Carroll is returning to the United States to work in Intel's Washington office, where she will track trade policy. Trade issues of interest to the company include China's entrance into the World Trade Organization, the approval of presidential trade-negotiating authority, Latin American trade and the implementation of permanent normal trade relations with China.
Mining the Web for Information
Qorvis Communications has hired Chris Wilson to head a new research division that will use the Internet and traditional methods to conduct surveys. Wilson is the former president and chief operating officer of Shandwick Worldwide, a public affairs and research-based consulting firm.
WRS Research will start with a team of three research professionals and will be located in Qorvis offices in Washington and Tysons Corner, Va. "Research is the essence of strategy and a critical part of our service philosophy," Qorvis managing partner Michael Petruzzello said in a statement. "We have been working to bring research in-house," he said.
Wilson previously was executive director of the Republican Party in Texas. In that capacity, he worked closely with Karl Rove, who is Bush's senior adviser.
On And Off The Hill
Heidi Mohlman has joined the House Science Committee as its communications director. Mohlman previously spent five years as the deputy press secretary to Sen. James Jeffords, I-Vt., before the senator decided to leave the Republican Party.
In March, Mohlman left the Hill to become director of political communications at the National Association of Broadcasters and then decided she wanted to return. "I was a geology major in college, so this opportunity was a perfect blending of my three passions: science, media relations and politics," Mohlman said. During her time with Jeffords, the Vermont native said she never had "any indication" that Jeffords was considering leaving the GOP.
Meanwhile, Mohlman said Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., visited Brookhaven National Laboratory last week, to meet with John Marburger, Bush's nominee to be a science adviser, and to "see what federal research dollars are supporting." Marburger is Brookhaven's director and was nominated earlier this summer to head the White House Office of Science and Technology.
In personnel news off the Hill, The Cassidy Companies, Washington's biggest lobbying and public relations conglomerate, has hired Tom Alexander, previously the communications director for Rep. Jennifer Dunn, R-Wash., National Journal reports. Alexander will be Cassidy's first-ever communications director. Previously, he worked for former Rep. Tillie Fowler, R-Fla., Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., and the National Federation of Independent Business.
Another former Hill aide is joining a startup law firm that will cater to Internet and technology clients. Peter Schalestock, a former counsel to now-TechNet CEO Rick White when White was a GOP House member, announced Friday that he is leaving the e-commerce division at Seattle-based Perkins Coie to join Avant Law.
During his years with White on Capitol Hill, Schalestock played a key role in crafting the music-licensing provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. At Avant, he will handle licensing and other transactions for Seattle-area technology companies.
Staff Changes At The FCC
FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin appointed Ginger Clark as a confidential assistant to handle Martin's schedule. Previously, Clark served in that position for Commissioners Harold Furchtgott-Roth and James Quello.
Martin also named Dolly Johnson as a staff assistant. She will handle scheduling matters for Martin's legal advisers. In addition, Martin tapped Sam Feder as interim senior legal adviser to focus on common-carrier policy. Feder was the associate chief of the competitive pricing division of the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau.
Other Martin legal advisers include: David Brown, who will work on mass media and cable issues; and Monica Shah Desai, who is the legal adviser for wireless and international issues.
In other FCC personnel news, Lauren Maxim Van Wazer has been named special counsel to the chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology. Since June, Van Wazer has served in the office of FCC Commissioner Michael Copps as an interim legal adviser for wireless and international issues. Before that, she was a senior staff attorney in the commercial wireless division of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau.
FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy, meanwhile, named Jason Scism as her special assistant for congressional, intergovernmental and industry relations. A former aide to the House Commerce Committee, Scism currently is a summer intern and student at George Mason University School of Law. He will continue his legal studies at night.
So Long To The Internet
Adam Lashinsky, one of the star columnists for TheStreet.com, has left the financial Web site to return to the world of print, the San Jose Mercury News reported last week. He will write for Fortune magazine, Business 2.0 and Money.com, all of which are owned by Fortune. Previously, Lashinsky wrote for the Mercury News and Bloomberg News.
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