THE INTERNET ALLIANCE: OUR STAFF
The Internet Alliance has assembled a team of highly-motivated,
seasoned, state government affairs professionals and they have shaped
every ecommerce and information technology policy debate in the
states since the dawn of the commercial Internet. The IA has been
the lead Internet industry voice since 1999 as states from Maine
to California have examined spam, privacy, tax, technology and security
issues.
Executive Director Emily Hackett directs a small, efficient team
of skilled professionals with two decades of experience in the states.
Hackett has a unique perspective as she has worked on Internet issues
as a regulator and a businesswoman. Before joining the IA Hackett
worked in the Reagan White House and at the Federal Trade Commission
when the commercial possibilities of the Internet were just beginning
to emerge. She has directed the IA’s state program since 1999.
IA Policy Director Kaye Caldwell is an expert in ecommerce and
Internet taxes and was awarded the Software Development Forum's
Visionary Award for pioneering efforts to make government more receptive
to the software and ecommerce industries. She has directed the IA’s
successful California program in since 1999.
Robert Sherman and Tammy Cota of Kimbell Sherman Ellis manage the
design and implementation of the overall state program. They have
assembled the most sophisticated data base of state Internet, ecommerce
and information industry legislation in the country. They identify
critical bills and the IA staff, guided by its members, works to
shape legislation that protects ecommerce and allows the Internet
marketplace to thrive and grow.
Emily Hackett
Emily Hackett is the Executive Director of the Internet Alliance.
Hackett's belief is that state policy drives global policy which
makes this the best job she has had since the White House. Hackett
joined the Internet Alliance in 1999, having previously served in
key government positions at the White House Office of Management
and Budget and the Federal Trade Commission. Prior to that, Hackett
spent seven years as a senior staff member at tax-exempt organizations
whose primary focus is on the policy implications of the explosive
growth of information technology and electronic commerce. Hackett
speaks regularly to policy makers, businesses and high school and
college students about the impact of the Internet on state governments.
Kaye Caldwell
Kaye Caldwell is the Internet Alliance’s California Policy
Director. An acknowledged expert in the field of Internet taxes,
Caldwell is the recipient of the 1999 Software Development Forum's
Visionary Award for pioneering efforts to make government more receptive
to the software and e-commerce industries. Caldwell has served as
a Steering Committee Member of the National Tax Association Communications
and Electronic Commerce Tax Project. She has had successful legislative/regulatory
campaigns in California in the areas of defeating legislation imposing
taxes on custom software, passing a digital signature law, passing
the California Internet Tax Freedom Act, and passing regulations
stating that the presence of a website in California does not create
nexus for tax purposes. Caldwell has worked with the IA since 1999.
Robert Sherman
Robert Sherman is a Partner of Kimbell Sherman Ellis. Sherman was
Vermont Governor Madeleine M. Kunin's special assistant, press secretary
and administration lobbyist. He spent 12 years as a journalist including
five years as a foreign affairs reporter for the Jack Anderson column
in Washington, D.C. Sherman grew up in Rhode Island and studied
journalism at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston.
Tammy Cota
Tammy Cota is Kimbell Sherman Ellis’s Director of Strategic
Intelligence. She graduated summa cum laude from Champlain College
in Burlington, VT, where she studied computer networking and PC
support.
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