As an agnostic, it is extremely rare that I use the phrase "Thank God for...," but I'll say it anyways, "Thank God for Paul Misener." Paul Misener is Amazon.com's Vice President for Global Public Policy. This guy is super smart, and has the ideal background for this position: he earned a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University (as did his boss, Jeff Bezos) and a law degree from George Mason University School of Law, from where he also received the 2001 Distinguished Achievement Award. He is responsible for Amazon.com's public policy positions worldwide. He is also President of the Internet Commerce and Communications Division of the Information Technology Association of America and a member of the ITAA Board of Directors. Rest assure this guy is not cladding jeans & sneakers while sitting behind some door desk in Seattle pondering how to improve Amazon's public image: he lives and works out of Washington D.C. battling the good fight against the Big Boys. Or at least he's out there promoting Amazon's best interest, as he's paid to do, but in this case our interests are aligned, and we should feel very fortunate to have someone of his caliber as a key leader and defender of net neutrality. Listen
here as he debates Mike McCurry, co-Chair of the telecom-backed Hands off the Internet campaign on net neutrality.
As an agnostic, it is extremely rare that I use the phrase "Thank God for...," but I'll say it anyways, "Thank God for Paul Misener." Paul Misener is Amazon.com's Vice President for Global Public Policy. This guy is super smart, and has the ideal background for this position: he earned a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University (as did his boss, Jeff Bezos) and a law degree from George Mason University School of Law, from where he also received the 2001 Distinguished Achievement Award. He is responsible for Amazon.com's public policy positions worldwide. He is also President of the Internet Commerce and Communications Division of the Information Technology Association of America and a member of the ITAA Board of Directors. Rest assure this guy is not cladding jeans & sneakers while sitting behind some door desk in Seattle pondering how to improve Amazon's public image: he lives and works out of Washington D.C. battling the good fight against the Big Boys. Or at least he's out there promoting Amazon's best interest, as he's paid to do, but in this case our interests are aligned, and we should feel very fortunate to have someone of his caliber as a key leader and defender of net neutrality. Listen here as he debates Mike McCurry, co-Chair of the telecom-backed Hands off the Internet campaign on net neutrality.
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