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Correll To Push Technology At Commerce
by Bara Vaida
Connie Correll, the executive vice president of bipartisan high-tech lobbying group TechNet, is joining the Bush administration as counselor and senior adviser to Phil Bond, the Commerce Department's undersecretary for the Technology Administration.
"Connie's departure will be a loss for TechNet, but it's a win for the Bush administration," TechNet CEO Rick White said in a statement. "Connie has played a critical role in TechNet's recent success."
Correll previously headed communications at the Information Technology Industry Council and before that was administrative assistant and press secretary to White when he was a member of Congress.
Trade Groups Select Top Officials
Other associations that follow high-tech issues also have made recent changes. The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), for instance, has elected new board leaders. Kathy Gornick, the president of Thiel Audio Products, is the new chairman, the first female to take the gavel for the association. "In addition to being the first female to serve as chair, Kathy will provide us with the point of view of a small business executive," CEA President Gary Shapiro said. The group also elected Mitek Chairman and CEO Loyd Ivey as vice chair, and Jerry Kalov of Kay Associations was re-elected as industry executive adviser.
Patricia Judd, meanwhile, has been appointed director of international copyright enforcement for the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Judd most recently was a trademark attorney with the Patent and Trademark Office. She will oversee piracy and counterfeiting issues and this week is traveling throughout Asia to discuss piracy issues with leaders in China, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia. "We're looking forward to a renewed and energized assault on the piracy problem," said AAP President Patricia Schroeder, a former congresswoman from Colorado.
And Archie Dunham has been elected as chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers, where he plans to focus on policies for expanding the economy, including corporate responsibility and tort reform. At a luncheon speech Monday, Dunham, who is chairman of ConocoPhillips, said he believes the economy is on the path to recovery, though it is likely to remain sluggish. Dunham also said stock options are an important compensation tool for company managers, and he supports the idea of companies counting those options as expenses.
The Siebel Shuffle
Tom Gann has a new title at Siebel Systems as the result of a company reshuffling of divisions. Gann is now vice president and general manager of the public sector and is in charge of three divisions related to government clients. He had been the vice president of government affairs.
One division Gann will oversee is government affairs, which represents the company's interests on policy issues such as stock options and e-government; the second is product marketing, which focuses on "optimizing" products for the public sector; and the third is the alliance team, which focuses on building relationships with other corporations.
In other Siebel news, company founder and CEO Tom Siebel will receive the David Packard Leadership Award from Business Executives for National Security this week in San Francisco.
Elsewhere in the high-tech industry, Matthew DeZee, the first chief information officer for South Carolina, has joined American Management Systems' Office of Digital Government and Technology. DeZee also was chairman of the security team at the National Association of State CIOs. Before his work in South Carolina, DeZee spent two years as director of computing and global telecommunications operations for the CIA.
Key Techies To Speak At New York Event
After 15 years, attendance at the Agenda conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., one of the high-tech industry's hottest gatherings, has dropped precipitously since the Internet bubble burst. But two high-tech media leaders -- John Battelle, founder of the now-defunct Industry Standard magazine, and John Heilemann, who wrote a book about the Microsoft antitrust suit -- do not see that decrease as a trend in high-tech conferences.
The two have put together the Foursquare invitation-only conference in New York City, which will run from Nov. 5-7, and it has attracted big-name speakers, according to the conference's Web site. The confirmed speakers include Barksdale Management founder James Barksdale, AOL Time Warner Chairman Stephen Case, SBC Communications president Bill Daley, TechNet co-founder John Doerr, FCC Chairman Michael Powell and Motion Picture Association of America President Jack Valenti.
The panel discussions will include one featuring Valenti and David Boies, an attorney for the bankrupt file-sharing firm Napster, in a debate about intellectual property.
News From The Campaign Trail
Siebel disbursed $155,000 from its political action committee during the past month to both Democratic and Republican candidates, including Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Republican House members Nancy Johnson of Connecticut and Charles (Chip) Pickering of Mississippi.
The Washington-area high-tech lobbying group CapNet, meanwhile, has endorsed four House candidates seeking re-election: Tom Davis, R-Va.; Chris John, D-La.; Ed Schrock, R-Va.; and Heather Wilson, R-N.M.
Democrats.org has created an online memorial to Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., who was killed Friday in a plane crash. The group also is launching an online campaign to urge former Vice President Walter Mondale to be Wellstone's last-minute replacement on the Nov. 5 Senate ballot. News reports said Minnesota Democrats likely will pick Mondale for the slot.
And the Republican National Committee (RNC) has launched an online cartoon video to respond to the Democratic National Committee's similar video unveiled earlier this month skewering the Republicans and President Bush for their stance on Social Security. The RNC cartoon places Bush's face on the body of Superman, plays the theme music from the Superman movie series and calls Bush the savior of Social Security.
A Taxing Forum
The Internal Revenue Service has named seven new members of the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee, which serves as a public forum for electronic tax issues.
The new members are: Lou (Steven) Blundell, vice president of acquisitions and innovation at Intuit; Allan Daniel, an H&R Block franchise owner in Hawaii; Edward Feinstein, vice president of field operations and research at H&R Block in Kansas City, Mo.; Sharon-Kay Flynn, owner of Cabot Financial; Nancy French, vice president of tax services and government relations at Advantage Payroll Services; Emily Lindsay, vice president of corporate accounting services at Marriott International; and Frank Real, chief financial office for IPR International.
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