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Bond To Leave Administration For Lobbying Job
by Randy Barrett with Sarah Lai Stirland contributing
Monster Worldwide on Monday named Commerce Department Undersecretary for Technology Phil Bond as its new senior vice president for government relations.
The company said Bond's job will be to raise Monster's profile in the federal and state government markets.
"As we enter the next stage of Monster's strategic expansion within the public sector, we are confident that Phillip Bond will play an invaluable role in helping to drive Monster's visibility, reach and continued growth in this vital sector," said Monster CEO Andrew McKelvey in a statement. The company provides online job listings.
Bond joined the Bush administration in 2001. Before that, he was director of federal public policy for Hewlett-Packard and also did a tour as a lobbyist with the Information Technology Industry Council. He also has worked on Capitol Hill and in the Defense Department under former President George H.W. Bush.
Cult Of Personality
Google's new man in town, Alan Davidson, now has his own line of merchandise, thanks to well wishers at the Center for Democracy and Technology, where he worked as associate director.
At a farewell party last week, T-shirts with Davidson's face were everywhere. Under the photo, the garments read, "A pleasant guy to work with" or "You can make money without doing evil."
The Davidson memorabilia also includes cups, hats, handbags and buttons. Remember, Christmas is only 242 days away ...
Sailing, Putting And Patent Reform
A few lucky congressional staffers got a deluxe patent tutorial last weekend courtesy of the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT). The event took place at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay resort in Cambridge, Md.
Between panels, staffers and lobbyists gabbed about intellectual property policy as they cooked, drank, golfed and sailed around the Chesapeake Bay.
ACT President Jonathan Zuck kicked off the event with a speech delivered Friday night when he introduced Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith as attendees munched their chicken dinner. "Remember that this isn't just about big companies just like Microsoft and Oracle," Zuck told the attendees. "It's about small businesses in your state and economic growth."
Smith noted that "we're going to have to think about how to build bridges across industry ... to collaborate."
ACT did its best to liven up what some may consider a dry topic. In addition to panel discussions, the group commissioned a music video promoting intellectual property, and explained the complexities of the patent reform process with a large pictorial depiction of the process over a fish dinner on Saturday night.
Most of the audience appeared unfazed by the complexity of the debate however, and asked questions that showed that intellectual property is a growing concern to their constituents. During a panel discussion about patent reform, one staffer on the House Small Business Committee remarked that he often receives calls from small businesses worried about having their intellectual property stolen in places like China, where some of the manufacturing and commercialization of their products take place.
Brad Huther, director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's anti-counterfeiting and piracy initiative, reassured the group that the chamber is working hard to raise awareness in Congress and with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative of the need to clamp down on piracy abroad.
Not So Fast There
In a moment that in retrospect might seem a tad premature, Link Hoewing, Verizon Communication's assistant vice president of Internet and technology, introduced himself to the audience Friday at a Center for the New West forum as: "I'm Link from Verizon-MCI. Just kidding!"
The big joke might be on him, as MCI shareholders are now considering a sweetened, $9.9 billion bid from Qwest. Verizon has just four business days to counter the offer and make an honest man of Hoewing.
And the Shiny Plaque Goes To ...
The tech group known as AeA is churning out awards aplenty. Now on deck for accolades is Ned Barnholt, former chairman, president and CEO of Agilent Technologies.
On Aug. 17, the retired corporate captain will be handed the fourth annual AeA/Stanford Executive Institute award for "outstanding achievement for an alumnus."
"Ned Barnholt typifies high tech entrepreneurship that is nurtured in the AeA/Stanford Executive Institute," said AeA President Bill Archey in a statement. "We are very proud that the AeA/Stanford Executive Institute experience aided him in his business contributions."
Barnholt graduated from the first AeA/Stanford Executive Institute in 1975 when he was a product marketing manager for Hewlett-Packard. He moved up the ladder at the company and later led Agilent's spin off from HP in 1999.
In other award news, Paula Milano, CEO of Axion Solutions, was named the 2005 "outstanding woman in technology and life science" by AeA's Orange County Council of California.
AeA described Milano as "both an example and a mentor to the women executives and software consultants that she employs" who "consistently promotes the career success of women in technology."
New Guy At White House
Longtime CIA official Phillip Lago has been named executive secretary of the National Security Council.
Lago has been in the spy community for 25 years and held numerous positions at the CIA, including executive secretary to the director. He has been actively involved in homeland security efforts and was a member of the CIA's response team to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Befitting a man of his trade, Lago lives in quiet anonymity with his family in Vienna, Va.
In other Bush administration goings on, Deputy Attorney General James Comey announced he will resign from the Justice Department effective this fall.
Comey led Justice's Corporate Fraud Task Force, created violent crime impact teams in cities around the nation and oversaw the day-to-day operation of the department, and its more than 104,000 employees.
Hello, I'm Now Representing ...
Brent Heberlee of Lionel Sawyer and Collins has registered with Congress to further the interests of SBC Communications and BellSouth on a likely rewrite of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. The Internet telephony firm Vonage has hired Al Mottur of Brownstein, Hyatt and Farber to lobby on the same issue. Mottur is a former communications counsel to the Senate Commerce Committee.
Quote of the Week
"If something is unsustainable, it won't continue."
Paul Posner, managing director, federal budget issues at the Government Accountability Office quoting the late economist Herbert Stein. Posner spoke at a forum on research and development budgets sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week.
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