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The Little Boutique That Could
by Randy Barrett
The public relations firm 463 Communications has hired Rob Haralson, the former press contact at technology industry group AeA, and continues to increase its staff. The firm is growing but does not plan to become a mega agency, partner Tom Galvin said.
Clients for 463 include Cisco Systems, the International Employee Stock Option Coalition, Sun Microsystems, TechNet and VeriSign, where Galvin used to work. Galvin said the strategy is to remain small so the principals in 463 actually work on the accounts, rather than giving them to junior staffers after contracts are signed.
"Our objective is not to become a major uber firm," Galvin said. "We are the antithesis of that."
The company currently employs five on staff and two consultants. Galvin is looking for several more hires, one on the West Coast and another in Washington. The firm recently moved into new digs at 1717 Rhode Island Ave., where it shares a suite with TechNet.
Anne Caliguiri has replaced Haralson at AeA. She takes the gig after spending three years in Los Angeles working for the Motion Picture Association of America.
Bolstering The ICANN Bureaucracy
The United States may rest easier. Why worry that the United Nations might take over Internet governance? The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is doing a dandy job creating its own bureaucracy, replete with "liaisons."
David Conrad has joined the organization as general manager of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. That is the group that makes sure every Internet device has its own numerical identifier, thus keeping the Internet from imploding into a heap of unkempt digits.
Conrad comes from Nominum, and he has been a member of the ICANN root-server advisory committee since 2000. He was also a member of the American Registry for Internet Numbers board of trustees and a founder of the Asia Pacific Network Information Center.
Kim Davies arrives at ICANN as technical liaison from the Council of European National TLD Registries. "Kim's appointment continues to show ICANN's commitment to serving a global Internet community," the company said.
ICANN has been under pressure lately from China and India to relinquish governance of the Internet's workings to the United Nations.
House Science Welcomes New Staff
The House Science Committee has hired six employees over the past few months in a changing of the guard.
Sara Gray arrived this summer as chief counsel, replacing Mike Bloomquist, who moved over to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Gray previously was an attorney with the firm of Stoel Rivers in Portland, Ore. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and a doctorate in environmental microbiology from Cornell University.
On Sept. 26, Amy Carroll replaced Eric Webster as staff director on Science's Environment, Technology and Standards Subcommittee. Webster has moved on to become director of legislative affairs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The incoming Elizabeth Grossman is the new staff director of the Research Subcommittee. She replaces Dan Byers. Grossman comes from the National Academy of Sciences and holds a doctorate in computational physics.
Next on the hit parade of new hires is Mike Holland, a professional staffer and designee to Subcommittee Chairman Judy Biggert, R-Ill. Holland most recently was employed by the White House Office of Management and Budget. He holds a doctorate in chemistry from the University of North Carolina.
Also new on the staff are Tind Shepper Ryen, who replaced Chris Shank on the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, and Rachel Jagoda-Brunette, a new staff assistant on the Research Subcommittee.
"I am very pleased to have the opportunity to hire qualified new staff while also promoting some of our most talented staff from within the committee," Chairman Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., said in a statement.
Shhh! New Lobbyists Are Nigh
Sources on the QT say Apple Computer and Cisco systems are close to hiring new Washington lobbyists. Cisco confirmed that it is working to replace Bryan Cunningham, who left recently to work for Wiley, Rein and Fielding.
G-Man Gets Props From Software Group
Arnold Bell, chief of the Innocent Images unit at the FBI, was honored by the Business Software Alliance last week during a cocktail hour at the trendy Lounge 201 on Capitol Hill.
Bell's unit tracks people who sell and trade child pornography. Bell said the perpetrators are sometimes linked to child molestation cases and even murder. "The work that Mr. Bell and his colleagues do every day is essential to giving parents peace of mind that our kids will be safe from predators online," BSA chief Robert Holleyman said in a statement.
Andy Purdy, acting director of Homeland Security Department's cyber-security division, Symantec lobbyist Kevin Richards, and Ron Teixeira, executive director of the National Cyber Security Alliance, attended the ceremony.
Kudos For Online Political Leadership
George Washington University's Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, JibJab Media and RedState.org have made the Top 10 list compiled by PoliticsOnline.
The "Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics" awards go to people and groups that show leadership in transforming e-politics and e-government. PoliticsOnline described the GW institute as "the premier center for the study of the Internet's effect on politics." Jib Jab produced the waggish online video "This Land," lampooning the 2004 presidential campaign. And RedState is a group Web log, or blog, with a conservative bent.
BBC Action Network finished at the top of PoliticsOnline's list, which was revealed late last month at a forum on e-democracy in Paris.
Quote Of The Week
"We're in towers, we're looking for smoke, but we're depending on a lot of other people to tell us if something is happening, if there are embers burning somewhere."
-- A senior U.S. health official speaking on background at a State Department press briefing on avian flu earlier this month.
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