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The Software & Information Industry Association is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to the leading companies that are setting the pace for the digital age.
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Kenneth WaschNumber of Employees 20
Contact Information
1090 Vermont Ave NW
Sixth Floor
Washington, District of Columbia 20005-4095
202.289.7442
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NAICS Code Professional Organizations: 813920
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SIIA Continues to Wage War Against Auction Piracy by Filing Eight New Lawsuits Against eBay Sellers
- 2008-03-20
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Scott Bain, Litigation Counsel of Software & Information Industry Association, +1-202-789-4492 With Action Against Software Pirates in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas, 17 Auction Piracy Lawsuits Have Been Filed in 2008 WASHINGTON, March 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Software & Information Industry...
SIIA Announces First Content Piracy Case Settlement
- 2007-08-16
To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORSContact: Scott Bain of the Software & Information Industry Association, +1-202-789-4492, sbain@siia.net; or Don Marshall, donmarshall@rationalpr.com, for the Software & Information Industry Association WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Software & Information Industry Association, the principal trade association for the software and content industry, today announced the...
Piracy on the high SystemCs: is bootlegged software slowing industry growth?(Electronic Design Automation)
- 2005-08-01
The amount of software pirated each year is roughly 10 times the yearly revenues of the entire EDA industry, according to the nonprofit Software & Information Industry Association SIIA. Although those purloined programs come from vendors such as Microsoft, EDA itself is not immune from pilferage....
UK software industry suffers largest financial loss to software piracy in Europe.
- 2000-05-25
M2 PRESSWIRE-25 May 2000-BSA: UK software industry suffers largest financial loss to software piracy in Europe C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:25052000 * The largest financial losses to software piracy in Europe occurred in the UK at GBP457 million. ...
Stopping Auction Piracy.(computer software)(Brief Article)
- 2000-04-01
Nearly 60 percent of the software exchanged through online auctions is pirated, according to the Software & Information Industry Association SIIA, a fact it discovered after surveying the three major online auction sites. eBay, ZDNet. and Excite. Researchers were tipped off last year when software was...
SIIA Tries To Stop Software Piracy On Auction Site.
- 2000-03-01
In an effort to reduce the exchange of illegitimate copies of software via the Internet, the Software & Information Industry Association SILA has released a set of recommended policies and procedures for Internet auction site operators. After discussions with auction site operators and other...
Are Universities Piracy Playgrounds?(software piracy)(Brief Article)
- 2000-03-01
University networks are increasingly fertile breeding ground for software piracy, according to several groups tracking piracy trends. Students and employees are copying and downloading unlicensed software and openly exchanging such programs, exposing themselves and their college sponsors to liability. Piracy costs software makers...
First Software Pirate to be Convicted and Sentenced Under 1997 Net Act; Sentencing of Software Pirate Sends Strong Message That Copyright Laws Must be Obeyed On the Internet
- 1999-11-24
WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 24, 1999-- SPA anti-piracy, a division of the Software & Information Industry Association SIIA, the leading trade association for the code and content industry, today congratulated Judge Michael Hogan of Oregon for sentencing Internet software pirate, Jeffrey Levy. SIIA also extended congratulations to U.S. Attorney for...
Illegal Software Auctioned Online.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- 1999-10-01
After conducting a survey of several online auction sites in August the Anti-Piracy division of the Software & Information Industry Association SIIA estimated that 60 percent of software auctioned online is illegitimate. SIIA monitored sales of software on the eBay, ZDNet and Excite ...
Software & Information Industry Association Issues `Buyer Beware' Advisory To Consumers Making Online Auction Software Purchases Survey Indicates Sixty Percent of Auctioned Software is Illegitimate
- 1999-08-31
WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 31, 1999-- The Software & Information Industry Association SIIA today issued its first ever `Buyer Beware' advisory, aimed at consumers making purchases of software through online auctions. The advisory comes on the heels of a survey conducted by the Anti-Piracy division of SIIA between August 15...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Kenneth Wasch | President |
| Keith Kupferschmid | Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property Policy and Enforcement |
| Mark Bohannon | General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Public Policy |
| Anne Griffith | VP, Corporate Communications |
| Brian Rosenberg | VP, Sales & Marketing |
| Ed Keating | VP, Content Division |
| Karen Billings | VP, Education Division |
| David C. Thomas | Executive Director, Software Division |
| Tom Davin | Managing Director, Financial and Information Services Division (FISD) |
| Bill Nichols | Program Director, Securities Systems, Financial and Information Services Division (FISD) |
| David LeDuc | Director, Public Policy |
| Mark Schneiderman | Director, Education Policy |
| Nick Merritt | Program Director, Financial and Information Services Division (FISD) |
| Scott Bain | Litigation Counsel |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
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| Alan C. Scott | Board of Directors |
| Bernard McKay | Board of Directors |
| Cynthia H. Braddon | Board of Directors |
| Daniel Burton | Board of Directors |
| Dawn Conway | Content Division Board Member |
| Fred Hawrysh | Board of Directors |
| Jack Sabo | Board of Directors |
| Jim Parkinson | Board of Directors |
| Joseph Fitzgerald | Board of Directors |
| Kathy Hurley | Board of Directors |
| Larry Snowhite | Board of Directors |
| Robert Merry | Vice Chairman |
| Steve Manzo | Board of Directors |
| Stuart Udell | Board of Directors |
| Tim Sheehy | Board of Directors |
| Tom Rabon | Board of Directors |
| Valerie Crawford | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | President | Current |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property Policy and Enforcement | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Public Policy | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | VP, Corporate Communications | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | VP, Sales & Marketing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | VP, Content Division | Current |
| EDGAR Online, Inc. | Vice President of Marketing | Former |
| Easton Consultants | Partner, Easton Consultants | Former |
| Avantt Consulting, Inc. | principal | Former |
| Northwestern University | MBA | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | VP, Education Division | Current |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Executive Director, Software Division | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Managing Director, Financial and Information Services Division (FISD) | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Program Director, Securities Systems, Financial and Information Services Division (FISD) | Current |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Director, Public Policy | Current |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Director, Education Policy | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Program Director, Financial and Information Services Division (FISD) | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Litigation Counsel | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Dow Jones & Company, Inc. | Senior Vice President & CMO, Enterprise Media Group | Current |
| Mpm Forum | Chief Marketing Officer | Current |
| Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group | Senior Vice President & CMO | Current |
| The Software & Information Industry Association | Board of Directors | Current |
| CMO Council | Advisory Board | Current |
| Mpm Forum | Board of Directors | Current |
| Factiva, Inc. | Chief Marketing Officer | Former |
| Giga Information Group | Vice President, Marketing | Former |
| Gartner, Inc. | Group Vice President, Marketing | Former |
| Prescients, LLC | Marketing Consultancy | Former |
| Spencer Trask & Co. | Venture Capital | Former |
| Wittenberg University | Bachelor's Degree, East Asian Studies | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Board of Directors | Current |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Board of Directors | Current |
| The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. | Vice President, Washington Affairs | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Content Division Board Member | Current |
| LexisNexis Group | Senior Vice President, Content & Business Development | Former |
| LexisNexis Group | Management, Marketing | Former |
| LexisNexis Group | Management, Sales | Former |
| Regis College | B.A., History | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Board of Directors | Current |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Board of Directors | Current |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Board of Directors | Current |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Board of Directors | Current |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Board of Directors | Current |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Congressional Quarterly, Inc. | President & Editor-in-Chief | Current |
| The Software & Information Industry Association | Vice Chairman | Current |
| Congressional Quarterly, Inc. | Senior Vice President | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| The Software & Information Industry Association | Board of Directors | Current |
Tom Rabon brings more than 25 years of experience working in government and the private sector to lead Red Hat's government affairs and public policy initiatives. He worked extensively with governments around the world to create market opportunities in emerging markets such as China and South America. Rabon recently served as vice president of Global Government Affairs at Lucent for six years. He led a team of government professionals in the US and other countries who were responsible for representation of Lucent with all local, state, federal, and international governments. Prior to that, he spent 13 years as a state vice president of Law and Government Affairs at AT&T, and also served in the North Carolina State Legislature. Rabon received a BA in political science from the University of North Carolina.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat, Inc. | Executive Vice President, Corp Affairs | Current |
| The Software & Information Industry Association | Board of Directors | Current |
| Lucent | Vice President of Global Government Affairs | Former |
| AT&T Inc. | state vice president of Law and Government Affairs | Former |
| The University of North Carolina | BA In Political Science | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| SRI International | Senior Research Scientist, Technology & Learning | Current |
| The Software & Information Industry Association | Board of Directors | Current |
Executive News
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SIIA's Education Division Recognizes 'Technology Standouts' During Its Prestigious Innovation Incubator Program
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