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Life After The White House
by Bara Vaida
Howard Schmidt, the former co-chairman of the White House's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and a co-author of the national strategy to protect cyberspace, has joined the board of Qualys, a Silicon Valley company that performs security audits and assesses management vulnerabilities.
As a member of the board, Schmidt intends to help Qualys become the de facto standard in assessing computer vulnerabilities and protecting networks. "The window between vulnerability discovery and time to exploitation is narrowing rapidly," Schmidt said in a statement. "Today's networking environment requires continuous auditing with real-time vulnerability and patch updates."
Schmidt recently joined eBay as vice president and chief information security officer.
Elsewhere in the private sector, the Comcast cable firm has named Melissa Maxfield, the director of Senate Minority Leader Thomas Daschle's political action committee, as senior director of federal government affairs. Maxfield will work for Kerry Knott, vice president of federal affairs and once a top aide to former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas. Maxfield previously was Daschle's liaison to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and a fundraiser for Daschle, D-S.D., Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and former Sen. Robert Kerrey, D-Neb.
Timothy Sample, who was staff director of the House Intelligence Committee, has joined Arlington, Va.-based Veridian as a vice president, Roll Call reported last week. Sample will lead the company's strategic initiatives in its information-solutions division. He has held several intelligence leadership positions in the government, the newspaper said.
Changes At The FTC And Beyond
The Bush administration recently has generated an array of news on the personnel front, from nominations and a confirmation to the departure of a top aide.
President Bush last week nominated Pamela Jones Harbour to be an FTC commissioner for the remainder of a seven-year term expiring Sept. 25, 2009. Harbour currently is a partner with the Kaye Scholer law firm. Previously, she served as assistant first deputy to New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and as New York deputy attorney general and chief of the public advocacy division. Earlier in her career, she served as assistant counsel to the New York Transportation Department and general counsel to the New York Public Transportation Safety Board.
Bush also intends to appoint Colonel Errol Ricardo, a technology official in the National Security Agency (NSA), to be adjutant general of the Militia of the District of Columbia. Schwartz currently serves as a troop commander for the D.C. National Guard and as the senior executive for information assurance at NSA. He previously served as a director of logistics and deputy director of information management for a unit of the guard.
Meanwhile, the Senate last week confirmed Clay Johnson as deputy director of management for the White House Office of Management and Budget. In that role, he will work closely with the President's Management Council and other interagency groups aimed at improving the management of the government. The council's priorities include expanding e-government. Since the beginning of the administration, Johnson has been a special assistant to the president on personnel, identifying and recruiting 4,000 people to fill government positions.
Bruce McDonald was named deputy assistant attorney general for regulatory matters at the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. He is currently a partner in the trial division of the Houston, Texas, office of the Baker Botts law firm where he focuses on antitrust matters. The Baker Botts Web site identifies several technology and communications companies as McDonald's clients. They include Alcatel, BMC Software, Dell Computer, Electronic Data Systems, GTE, Lotus Development, Raytheon, Silicon Graphics, Tele-Communications Inc. and Texas Instruments.
Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke is resigning at the end of the week, the Defense Department announced on Monday. Clarke is leaving the position of assistant secretary for public affairs for personal reasons, according to a news release. She held the job for two years, arriving the summer before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Lawrence DiRita, special assistant to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, will replace Clarke temporarily, AP reported.
Trade Groups, Think Tanks Hire Experts
Asha George is joining the ANSER Institute for Homeland Security as managing director on July 7. George currently serves as the senior program officer for biological programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, where she is responsible for developing, monitoring and evaluating biological programs aimed at enhancing global security.
In other news, the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) has hired Morgan Reed as vice president for public affairs. Before joining ACT, Morgan was a legislative adviser with Venable, Baetjier, Howard & Civiletti, a Washington law firm. Morgan directly lobbied Congress and provided strategic advice for Verizon Communications, TeleCorp PCS and a host of other U.S. and international interests. Recently, Reed has been working to assist several companies that provide technological solutions for homeland security. Reed also has represented the Telecommunications Industry Association and assisted the Indian Software Association.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has named retired Army Lt. Gen. Daniel Christman as its senior vice president for international affairs. In that position, he will represent the chamber with foreign business leaders and government officials; provide strategic leadership on international issues; and provide management expertise to the chamber's members, staff and programs.
Christman served as the president and executive director of the Kimsey Foundation for the last two years, where he helped launch a program related to political reform in China in coordination with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He also served for five years as the superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. And he served for two years in the Clinton administration as assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and traveled with and advised former Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF) President Raymond Gifford has been elected to the American Law Institute. The institute includes judges, lawyers and law professors who review state and federal laws and suggest legal reforms.
In August, PFF's Randolph May, a senior fellow and director of communications policy studies, will become chairman-elect of the American Bar Association's section on administrative law and regulatory practice. He will assume the chairmanship until August 2004.
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