Elizabeth Wilmot, Turtle Wings (an electronic recycling company), Debi Davis, MITRE
and Sozeen Mondlin of MITRE (gov't contracting firm)
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The annual "technology celebration" was held at the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner. U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George Casey gave the keynote address. It was well-attended by federal officials with ties to Virginia and technology. Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), Jim Moran (D-Va.) and Frank Wolf (R-Va.) were in attendance, as well as former FCC Chairman Kevin Martin.
"There are more federal officials, local officials and wannabe politicians in this room than tech people," Warner joked.
Kaine was honored for his work in making Virginia business-friendly and for elevating the role technology plays in the state's economy. But he said he knew the real reason he received the award: for "finding Aneesh Chopra and Vivek Kundra" and vaulting them to the White House.
Chopra served as Virginia's Secretary of Technology under Kaine, and Kundra was Kaine's Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Technology. Chopra is now federal Chief Technology Officer and Kundra is federal Chief Information Officer in the Obama administration.
"I'm not old enough to be their dad, but I have a paternal pride in seeing how well they're doing," Kaine said.
He then recounted the first conversation he had with each of them. When Chopra came onboard, he told Kaine, "Thank you for breaking the stereotype that Indian-Americans are not good at technology." (Joking, of course.) Kundra had a more serious question for the governor: "Is marriage a good thing?" Kaine's answer was apparently satisfactory; Kundra is happily married.
For more on technology, please visit Hillicon Valley here
— Report and photographs by Kim Hart
Bobbie Kilberg, president of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (and former White House official under President George H. Bush) and Sen. Mark Warner
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Eugene Huang, government operations director for the FCC's National Broadband Task Force, and Vivek Kundra, federal Chief Information Officer
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Aneesh Chopra, federal Chief Technology Officer, Eugene Huang, government operations director for the FCC's National Broadband Task Force, George Newstrom, former Virginia Secretary of Technology and current chief operating officer of Lee Technologies, and Len Pometa, Virginia Secretary of Technology.
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Michael Jacoby, Broad Street Realty, and Carl Grant, Cooley Godward Kronish law firm
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Paul Lalljie, Neustar, Adrienne Belyea of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman law firm, Jamie Graham,
Steve Boyce of Neustar and Keri Day of Ernst & Young
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