New FCC staff

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dave Burstein <daveb () dslprime com>
Date: June 29, 2009 6:51:11 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: New FCC staff

Dave
We've had discussion on this list about how important it is to have  
more people who understand technology in depth at the FCC.  I know  
several of the appointees are brilliant, but he hasn't filled that  
gap. Those whose voices are heard at the FCC might want to say  
something.

FCC CHAIRMAN JULIUS GENACHOWSKI ANNOUNCES STAFF

Edward P. Lazarus will serve as Chief of Staff. Mr. Lazarus comes to  
the FCC from Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, where he was co-head of the firm-wide  
global litigation practice
and a member of the firm’s management committee, overseeing more than  
800 lawyers. He is a
former prosecutor, having served as an assistant U.S. Attorney for the  
Central District of
California, and started his legal career as a law clerk to Supreme  
Court Justice Harry A.
Blackmun. Mr. Lazarus has also served as the Chairman of the board of  
AbilityFirst, a provider
of housing and vocational services to people with disabilities, and  
the Children’s Law Center of
Los Angeles, a nonprofit legal services organization that represents  
roughly 25,000 dependent
youth in Southern California.
Chairman Genachowski has appointed two senior advisors and two legal  
advisors to assist him
on the full range of policy issues.

Colin Crowell will serve as Senior Counselor to the Chairman. In this  
role, Mr. Crowell will
serve as strategic advisor on a broad range of matters, and will also  
have particular responsibility
for the communications, legislative, intergovernmental affairs, and  
public liaison functions of the
agency. Mr. Crowell previously worked for more than 20 years on the  
staff of the Honorable
Edward J. Markey (D-MA), serving on the staff of the House of  
Representatives Subcommittee
on Telecommunications and the Internet when Mr. Markey chaired the  
panel, and in the
Congressman’s personal office when Mr. Markey was the Subcommittee’s  
Ranking Member.

Bruce Liang Gottlieb will serve as Chief Counsel to the Chairman and  
senior legal advisor. Mr.
Gottlieb will manage the Commission’s overall agenda and have  
responsibility for policy
coordination with the Bureaus. In addition, he will have particular  
responsibility for wireless,
engineering and technology, and public safety issues.Mr. Gottlieb  
served as legal advisor to Commissioner Copps from 2006-2009.
Mr. Gottlieb alsopreviously practiced communications law at Harris,  
Wiltshire and Grannis, and wrote for Slate.
He began his legal career as a clerk to the Honorable David S. Tatel  
of the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the D.C. Circuit.

Priya Aiyar will serve as Legal Advisor, with particular  
responsibility for wireline competition
and international issues. She was most recently a partner at Kellogg,  
Huber, Hansen, Todd,
Evans and Figel, where she practiced in the areas of litigation and  
telecommunications. She
began her legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable Stephen Breyer  
of the U.S. Supreme
Court and the Honorable Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals  
for the D.C. Circuit.
Prior to entering law school, Ms. Aiyar was a Rhodes Scholar.

Sherrese Smith will serve as Legal Advisor, with particular  
responsibility for media, consumer
and enforcement issues. She was most recently Vice President and  
General Counsel of
Washington Post Digital. Prior to that, Ms. Smith was a member of the  
Intellectual Property
group at Arnold and Porter. She currently serves on the board of the  
ABA's Forum for
Communications Law, has served on the board of the Media Law Resource  
Center Institute
and was a co-chair of the Copyright Committee of the ABA. Ms. Smith is  
a frequent lecturer on
media, publishing, internet and intellectual property issues and is a  
faculty member for the
Practicing Law Institute.

Sherry Gelfand will serve as Confidential Assistant to the Chairman.  
Ms. Gelfand served as
executive assistant to the Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust  
Division, U.S. Department of
Justice, from 1993 and 1996. Since leaving the Department of Justice,  
she has served as Manager
for Business Intake for a major Tampa law firm and has served as  
executive assistant to the
Chairman/CEO of Valor Telecom in Dallas. Most recently, she served as  
executive assistant to
the Chairman/CEO of Soundpath Legal Conferencing in Washington, DC.

Daniel Ornstein will serve as Special Assistant to the Chairman. Mr.  
Ornstein comes to the FCC
from CBS, where he managed several new media initiatives and helped  
run the network's
growing mobile business. Previously, Mr. Ornstein worked on a start-up  
company called
Click.TV, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007.

Mary Beth Richards will serve as Special Counsel to the Chairman for  
FCC Reform, and will
head a comprehensive program to provide openness and transparency at  
the agency. Ms.
Richards first joined the FCC in 1984 and held a variety of positions,  
including Deputy Chief of
the Consumer and Governmental Affairs, Enforcement, and Common Carrier  
Bureaus, Deputy
Managing Director and Special Counsel to the Chairman, before moving  
to the Federal Trade
Commission in November 2006 as Deputy Director of the Bureau of  
Consumer Protection. She
recently returned to the Commission as Deputy General Counsel, and has  
been serving as Acting
Managing Director. In 1995, she received the Presidential Meritorious  
Executive Service
Award.

Ruth Milkman will lead the transition effort in the Chairman’s office.  
Ms. Milkman served at
the Commission between 1986 and 1998 in a variety of positions,  
including Deputy Chief of the
International and Common Carrier Bureaus, and Senior Legal Advisor to  
Chairman Reed Hundt.
Ms. Milkman also was a founding partner of Lawler, Metzger, Milkman &  
Keeney, LLC, and
served as a law clerk to the
--
Editor, DSL Prime and Fast Net News
Author with Jennie Bourne  DSL (Wiley, 2002) and Web Video: Making It  
Great, Getting It Noticed (Peachpit, 2008)




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