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Business Roundtable's Newest Educator
by Bara Vaida
EMC President and CEO Joseph Tucci will be the new chairman of the Business Roundtable's Task Force on Education and the Workforce. Tucci replaces Edward Rust, who is chairman and CEO of State Farm Insurance.
As chair, Tucci will work on state implementation of the sweeping education reform bill, H.R. 1, that became law early this year. Several technology companies lobbied for the bill last year because they have been facing shortages of workers with the math and science skills needed to fill jobs.
"From the standpoint of workforce preparation, I am particularly interested in the demand created by the U.S.'s dynamic technology sector," Tucci said in a statement. "The tech sector's ability to innovate and lead us into the digital age is directly related to our ability to prepare our students."
Tech Lobbying Around The Capital
The lobbying group TechNet has rescheduled its Washington lobbying day for March 6. The original date of last Sept. 12 was dropped after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. TechNet plans to have a board meeting on March 5.
At the time, the lobbying day was expected to be bring TechNet cofounder John Doerr, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; former Netscape Communications Chairman James Barksdale; Texas Instruments' Tom Engibous; 3Com Chairman Eric Benhamou and others to Washington for meetings with administration and congressional staff.
Broadband is likely to be on the top of the executives' list on the newly scheduled date, as TechNet recently introduced broadband policy recommendations and the House GOP leadership has planned a vote on the Tauzin-Dingell broadband bill, H.R. 1542 for March.
In other TechNet news, the group sponsored a Jan. 17 reception in Austin, Texas, for Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, following a briefing by Smith on computer-hacking tools.
Meanwhile, CapNet, a Washington-area high-tech lobbying group, took 30 GOP House and Senate staffers on a bus tour of member companies, including WorldCom, VeriSign, and EWA Information & Infrastructure Technologies. AT&T and Covad Communications officials made presentations on their companies on the bus. The major policy issue of the tour was the Tauzin-Dingell bill, which CapNet has opposed.
Staffers for the following lawmakers and committees participated: House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas; Rep. Ed Bryant, R-Tenn.; Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich.; Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C.; Rep. Larry Combest, R-Texas; Rep. David Dreier; R-Calif.; Rep. Amo Houghton, R-N.Y.; Rep. Tim Johnson, R-Ill., Rep. Jim McCrery, R-La.; Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va.; Sen. George Allen, R-Va.; Sen. Tim Hutchinson, R-Ark.; Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore.; the House Government Reform Technology and Procurement Policy Subcommittee; the Senate Commerce Committee; and the Senate Republican Policy Committee.
Staff Changes In The Tech World
Martina Bradford, who headed Lucent Technologies' Washington office the past five years until it was shuttered last month, has joined the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld as a partner. Her primary client, however, remains Lucent.
"My main thing here is to get Lucent represented as we go to this outsourced government-affairs mode," Bradford told National Journal.
The Council for Excellence in Government, meanwhile, has hired Danielle Germain as director of technology programs, a new position. Germain joins the council from the Information Technology Association of America, where she was the senior program manager for its enterprise solutions division. Before that, she worked in IBM's governmental programs office and managed the constituent casework for Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., in his Boston office.
In other industry news, Intel has named Paul Otellini as its new president and chief operating officer. Otellini will join CEO Craig Barrett in a two-person executive office, the company said. He will oversee Intel's internal operations, focusing on the development and delivery of new products and technologies.
Since 1998, Otellini has served as executive vice president and general manager of Intel Architecture Group, and before that, he was vice president of marketing and sales. Otellini was general manager of the microprocessor products group in 1990, leading the introduction of the Pentium processor in 1993.
The New York Software Industry Association has hired Harold Ickes, a former Clinton administration deputy chief of staff, as its Washington lobbyist, New York.com reported. As part of his job, Ickes is to help the New York congressional delegation on economic development, including securing federal money to assist New York with rebuilding in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He also will work on privacy and security issues. Ickes' firm, Ickes and Enright Group, is part of the Washington-based Griffen Johnson Dover & Stewart.
And finally, IBM general counsel Lawrence Ricciardi is retiring after almost seven years on the job. Ricciardi oversaw all the company's legal affairs and its worldwide government programs. He also addressed policy issues such as privacy. Before joining IBM, Ricciardi was president of RJR Nabisco.
Web Specialist Lands FEC Press Job
On the government front, Robert Biersack has been named deputy press officer at the Federal Election Commission (FEC), filling a vacancy created by Sharon Snyder, who left last year.
Biersack has served in the FEC Data Systems Development Division since April 1983, specializing in posting campaign finance data online. For the past several years, he has played a key role in defining, planning and implementing executive statistical studies on campaign finance information filed at the FEC.
At the FCC, meanwhile, Edmond Thomas has been appointed chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology. Thomas has 35 years of management experience in engineering and technology. He formally served as the CEO of a unit of Philips Electronics and also held senior positions at Bell Atlantic/NYNEX and AT&T.
Bruce Franca, who has been the office's acting chief since December 2000, will remain on board as deputy chief. During his term, Franca developed and implemented an excellence-in-engineering program to enable the FCC to develop a strong understanding of technology.
On The Lecture Circuit
R. Glenn Hubbard, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, is scheduled to speak Jan. 24 at the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the agency's distinguished lecture series. Hubbard is expected to speak on "Terrorism and the Economy: What We Know and What We Need to Know."
Before joining the Bush administration, Hubbard was a professor at Columbia University and received research support from NSF.
Spreading The Moderate Word
The Republican Main Street Partnership, a group of moderates in Congress, visited southern California last week to spread the moderate agenda on education, trade-negotiating authority, anti-terrorism and other key issues. Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Reps. Amo Houghton of New York, Doug Ose of California and Judy Biggert of Illinois made the trip.
The group was scheduled to meet with California's "New Majority," the state's largest group of GOP moderate activists, some of whom are running for state offices, and other centrists to help recruit and promote moderate Republican candidates in critical California elections. Ose held a briefing for activists on how the Main Street Republicans in Washington can partner with New Majority members to build the party in California.
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