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SIIA Announces New Board Members and Officers

Monday 11. August 2008 - Newly Elected Board and Officers of Leading Tech Trade Association Includes Executives from Oracle, Thomson Reuters and Red Hat

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, today announced the newly elected members and officers of its Board of Directors. The SIIA Board consists of representatives from the association’s 500-plus member companies, who are selected by the overall membership. Board members help determine SIIA priorities and drive the initiatives and projects that are undertaken each year. “This new Board brings a wealth of knowledge and experience that will strengthen SIIA and its ability to support the industry,” said Ken Wasch, SIIA President. “The Board will be focused on public policy issues affecting our industry as well as the various SIIA programs that help industry players understand our complex marketplace,” added Wasch.

The newly-elected board members serving through 2009 include:

— Kenneth Glueck, Vice President, Oracle Corporation


— Fred Hawrysh, Global Director of Corporate Affairs, Thomson Reuters Corporation

— Tom Rabon, Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Red Hat, Inc.

The following members were recently selected to serve as officers:



— Chairman: Robert Merry, Publisher and President, Congressional Quarterly, Inc.

— Vice Chairman: Stuart Udell, CEO, Penn Foster

— Secretary: Tom Rabon, Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Red Hat, Inc.

— Treasurer: Kathy Hurley, Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Pearson School Companies

The new board members and officers noted above will join the following representatives, who will continue serving on the SIIA Board of Directors:

— Cynthia Braddon, Vice President of Government Affairs, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (elected through 2010)

— Daniel Burton, Senior Vice President of Global Public Policy, Salesforce.com (elected through 2009)

— Paul Despins, Senior Vice President, Publishing Services and Technology, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (elected through 2009)

— Joseph FitzGerald, Vice President for Intellectual Property, Symantec Corporation (elected through 2010)

— Steve Manzo, Vice President of Government Affairs, Reed Elsevier, Inc. (elected through 2010)

— Randy Marcinko, President, MEI (elected through 2009)

— Bernard McKay, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Intuit, Inc. (elected through 2009)

— Jim Parkinson, Vice President of Developer, Tools and Services, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (elected through 2009)

— Alan Scott, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group (elected through 2010)

— Tim Sheehy, Director of Electronic Commerce, IBM Corporation (elected through 2010)