Obama Tech Support Nov 15 2007

TECH LEADERS ANNOUNCE SUPPORT FOR BARACK OBAMA CHICAGO, IL - Technology leaders across the nation today endorsed Barack Obama the day after he unveiled his innovation agenda at Google headquarters. These entrepreneurs, academics, and innovators are drivers in the effort to recapture American competitiveness. “Senator Obama not only understands good tech policy, but he also understands the best policy so that tech can do some good,” said Lawrence Lessig, founder of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. “By committing to opening government data, an Obama administration would provide all of us the tools we need to make government work for us, and not for the special interests that flourish in the shadows of a nontransparent government.” "I want my kids to grow up in an Obama America - an America in which, as Barack Obama has said, we stop setting settling for what the cynics say we have to accept and reach for what we know is possible,” said Julius Genachowski, Co-founder and Managing Director of Rock Creek Ventures. “An America with a President who will summon the nation to a common purpose, who will lead not by polls, but by principle; not by calculation, but by conviction; a President who will combat the common threats of the 21st century - nuclear weapons and terrorism; climate change and poverty; genocide and disease. This is what Barack Obama has promised - they are his words. And as someone fortunate enough to know him for two decades, watching him gather extensive real-word experience and a record of great judgment, I am completely confident he will deliver on his promise." A full list of the technology leaders endorsing Barack Obama is below: Stuart Benjamin, Professor of Law, Duke University Robert Blackwell, Founder and CEO, Electronic Knowledge Interchange Consulting Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley; Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission (1996-97); Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics (chief economist), Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice (2000-02) Lloyd Frink, President and Co-Founder, Zillow Julius Genachowski, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Rock Creek Ventures; former Chief of Business Operations & General Counsel, IAC/InterActiveCorp; former Chief Counsel to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt Don Gips, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, Level 3 Communications; former Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Gore

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Rob Glaser, Founder and CEO, Real Networks Mark Gorenberg, Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Nick Hanauer, Partner, Second Avenue Partners; Founder, aQuantive Adam Hanft, Founder and CEO, Hanft Unlimited Reed Hundt, Former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission (1993-97) Mitch Kapor, President, Kapor Enterprises; Founder, Lotus Development Corp. Jed Katz, Managing Director, DFJ Gotham Ventures Michael Katz, Professor, NYU and UC Berkeley; former Chief Economist, FCC; former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics (chief economist), Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice William Kennard, Former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission (1997-2001) Deborah Lathen, President, Lathen Consulting; former Chief, Cable Bureau, FCC Steve Lerner, Managing Partner, Blue Hill Group Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford University Blair Levin, Managing Director, Stifel Nicholas; former Chief of Staff, FCC Andrew McLaughlin, Director, Global Public Policy and Government Affairs, Google Ted Meisel, Elevation Partners Jon Miller, Former Chairman and CEO, American Online, Inc. Glenn Neland, Retired Senior Vice President, Dell Robert Nelsen, Managing Director and Co-Founder, ARCH Venture Partners Craig Newmark, Founder, Craigslist Beth Noveck, Professor of Law, New York Law School Chamath Palihapitiya, Executive Vice President, Product and Operations, Facebook Deven Parekh, Partner, Insight Venture Partners Sunil Paul, Founding Partner, Spring Ventures; Co-Founder, Brightmail John Place, Retired General Counsel, Yahoo!, Inc. Jeff Pulver, Founder, pulver.com Arti Rai, Professor of Law, Duke University John Roos, CEO, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Alec Ross, Senior Vice President, One Economy Kim Scott, AdSense Director of Online Sales and Operations, Google Carl Shapiro, Professor of Business Strategy, UC Berkeley; Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics (chief economist), Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice (1995-96) Howard Shelanski, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley; former Chief Economist, FCC Steven Spinner, Executive, Danoo Phil Weiser, Professor of Law and Telecommunications, University of Colorado Kevin Werbach, Asst. Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Tom Wheeler, Managing Director, Core Capital Partners Tim Wu, Professor of Law, Columbia University Ed Zander, CEO, Motorola ###

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