- Robert J. Shapiro
Robert J. Shapiro is co-founder and chairman of Sonecon, LLC, a private finance consultancy that has built a reputation warning of the dangers of naked short selling. Previously he was undersecretary of commerce for economic affairs in the administration of President William J. Clinton, and is a senior fellow of the Progressive Policy Institute. In his Commerce Department position, he oversaw the major statistical agencies of the United States, …
- David Sampson
David A. Sampson is the current United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce and took the oath of office on July 27, 2005. As Deputy Secretary he is the Department of Commerce's chief operating officer and manages a $6.5 billion budget and 38,000 employees in the 13 operating units. Sampson also serves on President Bush's management council and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
- Franklin L. Lavin
Franklin L. Lavin (Frank Lavin) is the Undersecretary for International Trade of the United States Department of Commerce. Born in Canton, Ohio, in 1957, he previously served as the United States Ambassador to Singapore from 2001 to 2005. The Undersecretary position, in addition to its policy making role, oversees the U.S. International Trade Administration. Educated at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, …
- Julie Myers
Julie L. Myers is the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She assumed the job following a recess appointment by President George W. Bush on January 4, 2006. Myers was formerly the Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement at the Department of Commerce. In that capacity, she oversaw 170 employees and a $25 million budget. She is also the niece of former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Richard Myers, …
- John L. Hall
John Lewis "Jan" Hall is an American physicist. He shared one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch for his work in precision spectroscopy. Hall holds three degrees from Carnegie Institute of Technology, a B.S. (1956), an M.S. (1958), and a Ph.D. (1961). He completed his postdoctoral studies at the Department of Commerce's National Bureau of Standards (now known as NIST) and then worked there from 1962 until his retirement in 2004.
- Harry Magdoff
Henry Samuel Magdoff, was a prominent American socialist commentator. He held several administrative positions in government during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and later became co-editor of the Marxist publication, "Monthly Review".
- Jeffrey Hunker
Jeffrey Hunker is Professor of Technology and Public Policy in the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his bachelors degree from Harvard and PhD from Harvard Business School and joined the Boston Consulting Group. He later became and advisor in the Department of Commerce and the founding director of the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office. This led him to serve on the National Security Council as the Senior Director for Critical Infrastructure.
- John J. Doll
John J. Doll is the current Commissioner for Patents at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
- Allen Pearson
Allen Pearson was the Director of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center from 1965-79 and began to collaborate with Dr. Fujita on tornado physical characteristics soon after the 1970 Lubbock Tornado. They bounced ideas off each other and the Fujita scale(F-scale) and later the FPP scale was the result. Pearson had devised the computerized encoding of the tornado base, which included the F-P-P estimates.
- Nancy Clark
Nancy Clark is CEO and Founder of WomensMedia, a media company focused on promoting women in the workplace, as well as the host of the "Women's Lunch Talk" blog and the weekly podcast "Working in Heels". Starting out in rocket science with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she moved into computer technology at the University of California, Berkeley and then became committed to helping women overcome obstacles in business.
- Edward R. Dewey
Edward Russel Dewey (1895-1978) was an economist who studied cycles in economics and other fields. Dewey first became interested in cycles while Chief Economic Analyst of the Department of Commerce in 1930 or 1931 because President Hoover wanted to know the cause of the Great Depression. Dewey reports that economists gave him no consistent answers on the cause of the depression and he lost faith in economic methods.
- William J. Harris
William Julius Harris (February 3, 1868 - April 18, 1932) was a United States Senator from the state of Georgia. He was a great-grandson of Charles Hooks, who had been a Representative from North Carolina.
- Jerome Namias
Jerome Namias was a U.S. meteorologist, whose research included "El Niño". Namias was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. Namias studied at the University of Michigan and joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1936 as research assistant. In the 1930s he studied the phenomena of the Dust Bowl. In 1941 he received his Master's degree degree from the American Institute of Aerodynamics and Astronautics.
- Ida Rhodes
Ida Rhodes (15 may, 1900 - 1 February 1986) was a mathematician who became a member of the clique of influential women at the heart of early computer development in the United States. Rhodes (birth name Hadassah Itzkowitz) was born in 1900 in the Ukraine. She came to the United States in 1913 and was studying math at Cornell University only six years later. She received her BA in mathematics in February, 1923 and her MA in September of the same year, …
- Peter Clavelle
Peter A. Clavelle (born May 10 1949) is a prominent Vermont politician and former mayor of Burlington. He was first elected mayor in 1989, serving seven terms. Prior to his election, he was a community development consultant and public official, serving, among other positions, as Director of Community and Economic Development in the administration of then-Mayor Bernie Sanders. Clavelle was elected mayor as a Progressive.
- James Thomas Lynn
James Thomas Lynn was a U.S. administrator. Lynn was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Frederick Robert Lynn and Dorthea Estelle Lynn (née Petersen). In 1948, he graduated summa cum laude from Western Reserve University (now known as Case Western Reserve University), and in 1951 graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. At Harvard Law School Lynn was the Case Editor of the Harvard Law Review.
- Thaddeus Vincenty
Thaddeus Vincenty (born 27 October 1920 in Grodzisko, Poland; died 6 March 2002 in Washington Grove, Maryland, USA) was a Polish geodesist who worked with the U.S. Air Force and later the National Geodetic Survey to adapt three-dimensional adjustment techniques to NAD 83. He's best known for the Vincenty formulae, a geodesic calculation technique published in 1975 and known for their extreme accuracy — about one-half millimeter.
- George C. McGhee
George Crews McGhee (1912- July 4, 2005) was a career diplomat in the United States foreign service. He served as ambassador to Turkey and ambassador to Germany. In 1989, McGhee donated his villa in Alanya, Turkey to Georgetown University. Today it is known as The McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, and welcomes students each spring.
- Adrian S. Fisher
Adrian Sanford Fisher was an American lawyer and federal public servant, who served from the late 1930s through the early 1980s. He was associated with the United States War Department and United States State Department throughout his professional career, and participated in the U.S. Government's decision of Japanese-American internment, the Nuremberg Trials, State Department Cold War activities during the Truman Administration, …
- Lewis Hancock Jr.
Lewis Hancock, Jr. (15 October 1889 - 3 September 1925) served in the United States Navy during World War I as a submariner. He later became a naval aviator. Lewis Hancock, Jr. was born on 15 October 1889 in Austin, Texas. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from that state in 1906 and graduated in June 1910. He served in the battleship "Vermont" (BB-20) before being commissioned as an Ensign in March 1912, …
- Iver C. Olsen
Iver C. Olsen (1904 - November 5, 1960) was an American who recruited Raoul Wallenberg. He worked for the Department of Commerce in the 1930s. He was an agent for the Office of Strategic Services and worked at the War Refugee Board during World War II. He also worked for the International Cooperation Administration. In 1954 he was the Washington, DC representative of Tripp and Co.
- Chester C. Gorski
Chester Charles Gorski was an American congressman who represented the state of New York. He was born in Buffalo, New York, USA on June 22, 1906 to a Polish immigrant family. He was a member of the Erie County Board of Supervisors from 1941 to 1945 and of the Buffalo Common Council from 1946 to 1948. He served in the House as a Democrat from January 3, 1949 to January 3, 1951 but failed to be reelected in 1950.
- John Francis Dillon
John Francis Dillon (born March 6, 1866 Bellevue, Ohio - died October 9, 1927) was one of the first members of the Federal Radio Commission, the forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission. He served in the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War and was master electrician in the Signal Corps from 1904 to 1912. In 1912, he was appointed a Radio Inspector for the Department of Commerce, …
- Howard D. Hurwitz
I am an attorney currently employed by GE Consumer & Industrial in the role of Counsel, Commercial Law. I am admitted to practice law in several US jurisdictions. I specialize in commercial law, contracts, customs law, international trade, import compliance, and export controls; and am a licensed United States Customs Broker. Want to connect on LinkedIn? Please use this link: http://tinyurl.com/2jgbha
- Mike Johanns
Mike Johanns was sworn in as the 28th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on January 21, 2005. Secretary Johanns' strong agricultural roots stretch back to his childhood. He was born in Iowa and grew up doing chores on his family's dairy farm. As the son of a dairy farmer, he developed a deep respect for the land and the people who work it. He still describes himself as "a farmer's son with an intense passion for agriculture."
- Arati Prabhakar
Arati Prabhakar joined U.S. Venture Partners in 2001 and is presently a partner with the firm. USVP is an active early-stage investor in a broad array of IT and healthcare startup companies. Arati's focus is fabless semiconductor and semiconductor manufacturing opportunities. She serves on the boards of Leadis Technology (NASDAQ: LDIS), Kleer, Piviotal Systems, Arradiance, SiBeam, and Kilopass. Arati started her career at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
- Keith Brumbaugh
LeAnne Tourtellotte Director of Venture Development LeAnne Tourtellotte serves as the Director of Venture Development for the Illinois Technology Development Alliance where she focuses on facilitating the start up company growth through assistance with sources of funding (both private and federal), business plan review, assistance with investor presentations, and conducting due diligence for prospective investment opportunities under the Technology Development Bridge Fund.
- Bracken Hendricks
Bracken Hendricks Bracken Hendricks is the Executive Director of the Apollo Alliance for Good Jobs and Energy Independence, a joint project of the Institute for America’s Future and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy. The Apollo Alliance is a non-profit issue education campaign committed to advancing public debate on clean energy within the national political process.
- Christopher G. Fox
Dr. Christopher G. Fox Director Dr. Christopher Fox has served as Director of the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) in Boulder, Colorado since April, 2004, after serving as Acting Director beginning December, 2002. His scientific background in marine geophysics prepared him for much of NGDC's mission but he has had on-the-job training in other areas such as space physics, satellite data processing, whole earth modeling, and large-scale data management systems.
- Joseph Robert Wright Jr.
Joseph Robert Wright, Jr. cleanup-date|June 2006 'Joseph Robert Wright Jr . ' (born 1938 ) was a U.S. businessman. He served as director of Office of Management and Budget between 1988 and 1989 . Joseph R. Wright, Jr . is President and CEO of PanAmSat, Corp., one of the world?
- Brent D. Ruben
Brent Ruben Brent D. Ruben, Executive Director Dr. Brent Ruben is Professor of Communication and Organizational Psychology, and Executive Director of the Center for Organizational Development and Leadership at Rutgers University. He is the author or editor of more than 40 books and 100 book chapters and journal articles on communication processes and functions in individual, interpersonal, health, organizational, intercultural and educational settings.
- Christopher Baugh
Christopher Baugh Principal Analyst Northern Sky Research was founded by Mr. Baugh in 2000, to provide market research on domestic and international high-speed networks to vendors and carriers worldwide. As Principal Analyst with a specialization in satellites and broadband technology, Mr. Baugh directs all Northern Sky multi-client research and single client projects related to the broadband telecommunications industry.
- George Edward Sterling
George Edward Sterling was born on Peaks Island located off the southern coast of Portland, Maine on June 21, 1894. He was the son of Wesley and Annie (Tatman) Sterling. George attended public school on Peaks Island. In 1908, the year amateur radio was born, at age 14, George was among the first amateurs to "hit the airwaves" using the new wireless communication medium. In the beginning, amateurs were unlicensed.
- David Brown
I'm a little bit of everything, all rolled into one.
- David
Hey whats goin, Im David proudly representing the great state of Maryland. Rite now Im a junior at Howard tryin 2 get my degree in accounting so I can make that money. Yeah I want to get a well-payin accouting job so I can provide for myself and my future family. I like to joke around and have fun. I like makin people laugh and feel good. I really like it when I can cheer someone up.
- Susan Dragotta
Susan Dragotta is the Outreach Consultant for Southeastern Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, and Kenosha Counties). Susan joined the Department of Commerce after eight years in international sales with Milwaukee-area companies. She traveled extensively in Latin America and Europe, supporting and developing distributor networks. She holds a bachelor's degree in Spanish from UW-Madison, and a master's degree in international business management from UW-Milwaukee.
- Arden L. Bement
Arden L. Bement, Jr. , became Director of the National Science Foundation on November 24, 2004. He had been Acting Director since February 22, 2004.
- Julie L. Myers
Julie L. Myers Assistant Secretary
- Harriet Michel
Harriet Michel is the President of the National Minorities Supplier Development Council. From 1965 to 1970, Michel was a program officer for the National Scholarship Service (NSSFNS). Joining the New York Foundation as its executive director in 1970, Michel became the first African American woman to head a major foundation. During President Jimmy Carter's administration, Michel served as director of the Department of Labor's Office of Community Youth Empowerment Programs/CETA.
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