Tammy Cota is executive director of the Internet Coalition. Cota previously worked as executive director of a D.C.-based internet association and has lobbied on privacy, tax and e-commerce issues in the 50-states since the early 90s. Cota graduated summa cum laude from Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, where she studied computer networking and PC support. She is also an associate with LEONINE FOCUS, and has been a member of the FOCUS team in various roles since 1991, including representing clients before the Vermont Legislature regarding privacy, technology, tax, health care, recycling and product distribution.
Ezra Hagerty is a senior public policy analyst at LEONINE FOCUS. He currently tracks issues in all 50 states relating to technology, energy and consumer goods. He supports the Internet Coalition, analyzing and reporting on emerging issues affecting online commerce. A political science graduate of the University of Vermont, Hagerty helped launch a start-up and served in operations and business development capacities at two growth-stage financial technology companies. Hagerty is based in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and serves on the junior board of Careers Through Culinary Arts Program, a non-profit focused on education and job training in culinary arts for underserved youth.
Leif Johnson is a firm partner and President of LEONINE FOCUS. Leif joined Leonine Public Affairs 10 years ago and leads Leonine’s strategic counsel team helping corporate and trade association clients sharpen their state government affairs operations. Johnson is also currently the managing director of The Advocacy Group (TAG), the leading state and international association of government and public affairs professionals. TAG’s inter-firm network of independent companies consists of the best lobbyists, communicators and public affairs professionals in each state and country.
In this digital era, if you die or become incapacitated, it is likely that an executive, fiduciary, personal representative or a family member will want access to your online banking accounts, investment portfolio, social media sites or email. If you have not entrusted someone with the usernames and passwords to such accounts, how will your...
There are literally thousands of websites listed online where you can order “local” flowers. However, a few of these claim that they are local, when in actuality they are out of town or even out of state. They just gather the order, charge an extra fee to the customer, and then contact a local...
A largely bipartisan movement to regulate patent trolls is unlikely to lose steam in the near future as the number of lawsuits filed by patent trolls, or entities that exist for the purpose of licensing patents in order to sue companies for alleged infringement of those patents, has increased nearly six-fold since...
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