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2008-2009
SIIA Board of Directors Elections
The SIIA Board of Directors is the team that makes decisions and sets priorities for the Association at large. These are your representatives, and you will want to have the best possible advocates for your interests.
SIIA prides itself in having an open process for electing its volunteer leadership. The process for getting elected to the SIIA Board of Directors is simple: any full member of SIIA who feels they can commit the time and energy is eligible to run for a seat on the SIIA Board of Directors. Members are self-nominated according to the process outlined below.
The SIIA Board has seventeen seats. In the upcoming election, we will elect eight (8) new Board members to two-year terms. The eight (8) new Board members will join the returning seven (7) members. This new Board will then appoint two additional Board members to one year terms. The two Board-selected members are usually picked for balancing purposes, since elections may leave one or more segments of our membership under-represented. For your reference, the returning board members are:
- Daniel Burton, Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy, Salesforce.com
- Kenneth Glueck, Vice President, Oracle Corporation
- Bernard F. (Bernie) McKay, Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Intuit
- Jim Parkinson, Vice President, Collaboration & ISV Engineering, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- Tom Rabon, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Red Hat, Inc.
- Larry Snowhite, Vice President Government Relations, Houghton Mifflin Company
- Ken Wasch, President, Software & Information Industry Association
If you, or a person from your executive team, are interested in running for the SIIA Board, please have a brief campaign statement (not to exceed 200 words), sent to Marnel Williams no later than Friday, March 28, 2008. The campaign statements will be bundled together and emailed to the principal contact at each SIIA Full Voting member company. Members will be able to vote online through a password secure system.
The following current board members’ terms are expiring:
- Cindy Braddon, Vice President, Government Affairs, The McGraw-Hill Companies
- Joseph T. FitzGerald, Vice President, Legal Deputy General Counsel, Symantec Corporation
- Fred J. Hawrysh, Senior Vice President, Global Director External Comm., The Thomson Corporation
- Kathy Hurley, Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Pearson School Companies
- Steven Manzo, Vice President, Government Affairs, Reed Elsevier, Inc.
- Robert W. Merry, President & Editor-in-Chief, Congressional Quarterly
- Jack Sabo, Managing Director, Sabocom, LLC
- Alan Scott, Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Dow Jones & Company
- Timothy Sheehy, Vice President, Worldwide Intellectual Property & Standard Policy, IBM Corporation
- Stuart Udell, Chief Executive Officer, Penn Foster
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