Googlers, Other Techies Donate To Obama
President-elect Barack Obama's transition team on Monday released a batch of donors to make good on his pledge to "run the most open and transparent transition in history." As of Nov. 15, $1.17 million had been raised from 1,776 donors, including some high-profile technology and media industry leaders. Donor lists will be released on a monthly basis.
Some names and donation amounts, large and small listed on change.gov:
▪ Eric Schmidt, Google CEO [$5,000]
▪ Vint Cerf, Google chief Internet evangelist [$2,500]
▪ David Fischer, Google vice president/global online sales [$3,000]
▪ Juliette Gimon, Google global economic development [$2,500]
▪ Edgar Bronfman, Warner Music Group CEO [$5,000]
▪ Andrew Lack, Sony Music Entertainment [$5,000]
▪ George Lucas, founder LucasFilm [$5,000]
▪ James Crowe, Level 3 Communications CEO [$5,000]
▪ Fred Eychaner, Newsweb Corp./WPWR-TV [$5,000]
▪ Majid Naderkhani, Excelacom systems integration [$5,000]
▪ Geoffrey Gowan, Google software engineer [$200]
▪ Spencer Kimball, Google computer programmer [$250]
▪ Tim Mansfield, Google software engineer [$250]
▪ Craig Nevill-Manning, Google engineering director [$500]
▪ Robert Fermier, Microsoft videogame programmer [$250]
▪ Larry Kenyon, Microsoft [$250]
▪ John Margaretten, counsel, Ask.com [$250]
▪ Kimberly Fitzgerald, CBS senior vice president [$250]
▪ Marc Goldschmidt, Intel Corp. engineer [$250]
▪ Paula Heybach, Hewlett Packard [$250]
▪ Alfred Kiessel, Oracle Corp. [$250]
▪ David Liebtag, IBM programmer [$250]
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