| David Byer joined
Apple in January 2001 to head up the company’s policy, advocacy, and strategic
relations efforts in the area of education. He came to Apple after
completing a yearlong tenure as executive director of the Web-based Education
Commission, a bipartisan 16-member panel established by Congress to recommend
actions to help maximize the educational promise of the Internet. David was appointed in December 1999 by then Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska,
who chaired the Commission. The Commission issued its recommendations
in December 2000.
From 1994 through his appointment, David was employed by the Software & Information Industry Association (formerly the Software Publishers Association), where he served as SIIA’s Vice President of Government Affairs beginning in 1997. Before joining SIIA, he spent eight years in the field of government relations focusing on workforce, K-12, and postsecondary education policy issues with the American Society for Training and Development, National School Boards Association, and the National Association of College and University Business Officers. |
David
S. Byer
Senior Manager
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| David has served on the boards of the Washington, DC-based Committee for Education Funding and National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training. He holds BA and MBA degrees from George Washington University. | |