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Semiconductor Chief Fills Fed Slot
by Bara Vaida
One of Silicon Valley's own has been designated to take a leading role within the powerful Federal Reserve Bank system.
George Scalise, president of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), has been named chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, where he will be one of nine directors overseeing operations. In that role, he also will provide perspective on economic trends within the bank's region.
Scalise was first appointed to the San Francisco board in 2000 and was reappointed in 2003. He succeeds previous Reserve Bank Chairman Nelson Rising, who retired on April 30.
Before heading SIA, Scalise was executive vice president of operations at Apple Computer and before that held management positions at National Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices, Fairchild Semiconductor and Motorola Semiconductor. He is also a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST.)
News In The Executive Branch
President Bush announced that he intends to nominate Thomas O'Connell to be assistant Defense secretary for special operations and low-intensity conflict. O'Connell is currently a senior manager at Raytheon in its intelligence and information systems division. He is also a member of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee Task Force.
Before joining Raytheon, O'Connell was advanced projects manager in the intelligence/electronic warfare division at Chrysler. His other jobs have included military chief for the command support group in the office of military affairs at the CIA, deputy director for special operations command and brigade commander for the Army's special-mission init.
President Bush also intends to appoint Ronald James as chief human capital officer at the Homeland Security Department. Currently, James is a partner with the Squire, Sanders & Dempsey law firm in Cleveland, and he previously served as administrator of the Labor Department's wage and hour division and as assistant general counsel for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
At the FCC, meanwhile, Scott Delacourt has been named chief of staff and associate bureau chief at the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. In that position, he will oversee strategic planning, assist in bureau management and advise the bureau chief on key policy initiatives.
Delacourt previously served as senior counsel in the office of the FCC's general counsel, advising the chairman's office on wireless, international, engineering and technology, consumer and governmental affairs, and enforcement issues. Before joining the FCC, Delacourt was an attorney with Wiley, Rein & Fielding, where he specialized in communications law.
Staff Changes On The Industry Front
David Lucien, a founder of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), has joined Vienna, Va.-based CMS Information Services as chairman and CEO. He was already a board member of the company and replaces CMS founder Doug Turner. In 1990, Lucien founded Interpro, a strategic advisory service firm; before that, he was president and CEO of Tempest Technologies.
David Green has been named vice president and counsel of technology and new media at the Motion Picture Association of America effective at the end of May. He will focus on legal issues related to the Internet and other electronic distribution systems. Green joins MPAA after 16 years at the Justice Department, most recently as principal deputy chief of the section focused on computer crime and intellectual property. Before that, he prosecuted public corruption cases as senior litigation counsel and was an associate at the Arnold & Porter law firm.
Leslie Seidman has been named a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Seidman is currently the managing member of Leslie Seidman Consulting and is the former vice president of accounting policy at J.P. Morgan & Co. A certified public accountant, Seidman formed her firm in 2000 and provides consulting services to global financial institutions.
Scott Parven, AOL Time Warner's vice president for federal affairs, is joining the lobbying shop Federal Policy Group. Parven joined AOL in mid-2001, after a year-and-a-half as chairman of international public policy at Mayer, Brown & Platt, where he worked with former U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor. Before that, Parven spent six years as vice president and counsel on global government relations at the insurance firm Aetna.
New ICANN Chief Visits Washington
The new head of the Internet's oversight body is spending this week in Washington, meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, members of he Bush administration and industry associations.
Paul Twomey became president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in March. The former Australian official is the first non-U.S. citizen to lead the five-year-old group. The main purpose for Twomey's trip is to get to know members of Congress and federal agency officials, according to an ICANN spokeswoman.
ICANN works closely with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. That agency has an ongoing agreement with ICANN that allows the global organization to manage the system of Internet addresses.
Techies Give 'Soft Money' To Kerry
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) last week made public several reports on "soft money" contributions to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, a senator from Massachusetts.
PoliticalMoneyLine reports that Kerry's Citizen Soldier Fund received $50,000 from Patrick McGovern, chairman of International Data Group, and $25,000 from Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google. Many of the funds were used to transfer money to Democratic Party accounts in states such as Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, New Hampshire and South Dakota.
Tech Executive Defends Stock Analyst
T.J. Rodgers, president of Cypress Semiconductor, has come to the defense of Frank Quattrone, the former star Wall Street stock analyst and head of Credit Suisse First Boston's technology-investment unit.
Federal prosecutors last month charged Quattrone with obstruction of justice. Rodgers wrote in a letter to the San Jose Mercury News that Quattrone's only crime was the "'Bill Gates law' -- his competence made him too much money too fast."
Rodgers said he met Quattrone in 1986, when he led the investment-banking team that handled the initial public offering of stock for Cypress, and used Quattrone's services for 16 years because "I never had to worry that we were not getting a square deal."
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