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Music Publishers Get New President
by Sarah Lai Stirland
The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) on Monday named former Justice Department Deputy Chief of Staff David Israelite as its new president and CEO.
Israelite takes the job after four years at Justice. One of his last tasks there was to chair the task force on intellectual property, which late last year published recommendations on how the federal government can improve intellectual property enforcement.
NMPA joined the Motion Picture Association of America and Recording Industry Association of America in petitioning the Supreme Court to hear the copyright case Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios v. Grokster. The high court will hear oral arguments March 29.
"David's outstanding legislative and political background combined with his tremendous knowledge of the issues surrounding intellectual property made him the obvious choice for this role, as the U.S. music publishing industry moves forward to confront the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century," Irwin Robinson, the chairman of NMPA's board and chairman and CEO of Famous Music Publishing, said in a statement.
Before joining Justice, Israelite worked as director of political and governmental affairs for the Republican National Committee. As a senior adviser to the committee chairman, he was responsible for the GOP's campaign operations, government affairs, research and presidential liaison divisions.
Israelite also worked as administrative assistant to Sen. Christopher (Kit) Bond, R-Mo., from 1997 to 1998 and served as his campaign manager for his successful 1998 re-election campaign.
Labor Official To Head E-Government Panel
The White House Office of Management and Budget last week announced that Deputy Labor Secretary Steven Law has been named chairman of the president's Management Council Subcommittee on E-government. Law succeeds former Deputy Treasury Secretary Samuel Bodman, who was confirmed last week to succeed Spencer Abraham as Energy secretary.
The Labor Department has been a leader in the administration's e-government initiative. The department last September was named one of four departments to achieve a top score of "green" for e-government on the President's Management Agenda scorecard.
One of its projects aimed at making government more accessible has been GovBenefits.gov, a cross-departmental Web site listing nearly a thousand federal and state benefits programs.
Internet Phone Group Picks New Leaders
The Voice on the Net (VON) Coalition, which consists of companies that provide Internet telephony and other services, announced Monday that its members have elected Staci Pies, PointOne's vice president of governmental and regulatory affairs, as president.
The group also chose Margie Dickman, Intel's senior attorney for government affairs for telecommunications and technology policy, as VON's chairwoman of the board.
VON also announced a new board: Jonathan Askin, general counsel at Pulver Enterprises; Microsoft Regulatory Counsel Paula Boyd; Wayne Fonteix, director of regulatory affairs at AT&T; Praveen Goyal, Covad Communications' assistant general counsel; Bob Koppel, Texas Instruments' director of government relations for telecom policy; and Rick Whitt, MCI's senior director of global policy and planning.
In other industry news, the Business Software Alliance last week named Karen Cottle, Adobe Systems' senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, as chairwoman of its board for 2005. The position calls for Cottle to lead the group's tech policy initiatives.
The e-voting security company VoteHere named Bryan Finney as its director of government affairs and William Warden as its director of business development. Finney joins VoteHere from its competitor, Democracy Systems, where he was director of election solutions. Warden came to VoteHere from the election-systems vendor VOTEC, where he was a national account manager.
And at the FCC, Jeremy Miller has been promoted to deputy chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau's competition policy division. Previously, he was the division's assistant chief. In his new job, he will lead the division as it develops competition policies governing local telecom markets. He has been at the bureau since 2001. Before that, he worked as a telecom attorney at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson.
Science Academy Elects Next President
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced Monday that its members have elected Ralph Cicerone, chancellor of the University of California at Irvine campus, as its next president.
Cicerone, an atmospheric chemist, will serve a six-year term in his new job in Washington. He succeeds Bruce Alberts, a cell biologist from the University of California, who served two six-year terms as NAS president. Cicerone begins the job July 1.
"The academies will be in good hands for years to come," Alberts said in a statement. "Ralph Cicerone is an energetic, thoughtful and respected leader. He will be a strong advocate for the advancement of science and for promoting the many applications of science for improving human welfare around the world."
Cicerone has been a member of 20 NAS study committees since 1984. In 2001, at the request of President Bush, he chaired a major study that examined scientific questions on climate change. He also has won several awards for his work.
The American Geophysical Union in 2002 awarded Cicerone with its Roger Revelle Medal for outstanding research contributions to understanding earth's atmospheric processes, biogeochemical cycles or other key elements of the climate system. The Franklin Institute chose Cicerone as the 1999 laureate for the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, which recognizes policy leadership in protecting the global environment. And the World Cultural Council last year gave Cicerone its Albert Einstein World Award of Science.
NAS announced other personnel changes, including the election of Barbara Schaal, a biology professor at Washington University, as the academy's vice president.
NAS members also selected four new members of its governing council. The new members are: Claude Canizares, a physics professor and associate provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Gerald Fischbach, executive vice president for health and biomedical sciences and dean of the faculty of medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Jerry Gollub, a professor of natural sciences at Haverford College and an adjunct physics professor at the University of Pennsylvania; and Joyce Marcus, a professor of cultural evolution and Latin American archaeology curator at the University of Michigan.
EarthLink Security Team Starts Web Log
Marketing gurus have said that Web logs, or blogs, can help reinforce companies' brands and messages. Perhaps with that in mind, several security-related product managers at the Internet service provider (ISP) EarthLink have banded together to write a group blog on security issues.
On the Protection Blog, the group has written about new forms of Internet fraud emerging on wireless networks, as well as concerns with unsolicited commercial e-mail, computer viruses and "spyware," secretly installed software that tracks Internet activities.
Chris Brandon, a personal start-page product manager at EarthLink, writes about viruses, while Tom Collins, EarthLink's spyware-blocker product manager, covers spyware. Scott MecRedy, a senior manager of core software, writes about phony web sites known as "phishing" sites, and Stephen Currie, the company's e-mail product director, writes about spam. The blog even has a managing editor, EarthLink Chief Privacy Officer Les Seagraves.
Jerry Grasso, EarthLink's director of corporate communications, said officials thought a blog would be a great channel for discussing the company's ideas on security-related subjects and would give the ISP a chance to quickly respond to relevant news stories.
"This is the way to discuss the issues organically," Grasso said.
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