On The Move: Padilla, Schmaler & Fiorina
The word on K Street is that former Department of Commerce Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Christopher Padilla will soon be heading up IBM's government affairs office in Washington. Padilla spent three years at the U.S. Trade Representative under President George W. Bush. Padilla has previously lobbied for AT&T. He has also served as vice president for international affairs at Lucent Technologies and director of international trade at Eastman Kodak.
Padilla is expected to replace Christopher Caine, who we previously reported would be stepping down to start his own company, Mercator XXI. Caine spent 25 years working for IBM. IBM spokesman Chris Andrews said the company does not comment on rumor or speculation about executive hiring decisions. In other news Tracy Schmaler, Yahoo's senior director for public affairs will leave the Internet firm later this week for a job at the Justice Department. The former spokeswoman for Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy will be deputy director of the agency's press shop.
Meanwhile, Carly Fiorina is now chair of the board at the Technology Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank. TPI was founded in 2007 and has a number of former employees of Progress & Freedom Foundation on staff. After being ousted from Hewlett Packard, Fiorina became heavily involved in the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. -- Winter Casey & Andrew Noyes
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