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Grassroots Letter Campaign to President Obama

Dear President Obama:

We applaud your decision to host a forum on jobs and economic growth and look forward to being constructive partners to restore prosperity to our nation. Generating a robust recovery with expanded job growth will require working together with a clear national purpose. The December 3rd forum can provide such purpose with bi-partisan initiatives that advance our leadership in today’s global economy.

As CEOs of companies that create the world’s leading technologies, we understand the economic pain that is being felt today. But we also see the promise that lay across the horizon if we are strategic in our planning. The solutions we offer below are aimed at moving us forward—towards success. These ideas are guided by the twin principles of not adding to the national debt, while advancing technological innovation, which should underpin this effort.

Accelerate Release of Stimulus Recovery Funds to fund broadband deployment and adoption, universal health IT, and green energy, including the Smart Grid, to restore U.S. leadership in sectors that have been designated priorities for governments around the world.
Cultivate the World’s Best and Brightest Workforce with training programs focused on future market demands and proficiency in science, technology, engineering, and math; and legislation to retain foreign skilled workers already in this country or seeking advanced degrees at our college and universities so they can innovate and create jobs in the U.S.
Spur Investments by enacting a permanent and strengthened research and development tax credit as well as other key business tax incentives before they expire at the end of this year; revising our own international tax code to ensure a level playing field with foreign competitors at home and abroad; creating investment tax incentives such as bonus depreciation; and providing corporate pension plans with an extended timeline for catch-up payments so that they can avoid crushing obligations resulting in further economic contraction.
Promote exports of U.S. goods and services by aggressively following up on your recent commitments to expand the Trans-Pacific Partnership and to win passage of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement; and supporting swift conclusion of the Doha Round, passage of the other outstanding FTAs, and promotion of trade in green technologies through a comprehensive Environmental Goods and Services Agreement.

We hope you will consider these recommendations as you work to further jumpstart the economy. We look forward to working with you to advance our shared goal of job growth and economic expansion.

Sincerely,

Randolph E. Gunter, Ph.D., Chairman, 21st Century Learning Solutions, Inc.
Anthony Davis, Founder & CEO, 2GO Software Solutions Inc.
Amjad Shamim, CEO, AAJ Technologies
M. Gregory Smith, President & CEO, Accudata Technologies
Abid H Abedi, Founder and Chairman, Adea, Inc.
Manuel Rivera, President, Advance Electronic Instruments, Inc.
Rex Dyer, VP, CSO and Founder, Ag-Defense Systems, Inc.
Ric Johnsen , President & CEO , Alloptic, Incorporated
Lee Shapiro , President, Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc
Dirk Meyer, President & CEO, AMD
Elmer Baldwin, President and CEO, Analysts International Corporation
Laurent Vernerey, President & CEO, APC
Antoine Khoury, President, ApECOR
Mike Splinter, Chairman & CEO, Applied Materials, Inc.
Michael L. Sheriff, CEO, ArcAngel Technologies, Inc.
G.S.Satya, President/CEO, Autosense International
Barry J. Loshin, President, Barry J. Loshin & Associates, Inc.
Larry Decklever, President, BenchmarkQA, Inc.
John F Moore, retired former CEO, Bio-Imaging Research, Inc.
Martin Swarbrick, President and CEO, Bison Gear and Engineering
Krista Botsford, President, CTO, Botsford EcoTech Partners LLC
John A. Swainson, CEO, CA, Inc.
Larry Disenhof, Group Director, Export Compliance & Gov’t Relations, Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Lawrence Hooper, MD, CEO, Cardiovascular Sciences, Inc.
nelson Carlo, President, Carlo steel corp
John T. Chambers , Chairman & CEO , Cisco
David Ormesher, CEO, closerlook, inc.
Jeffrey K. Berg, President & CEO, Communications Systems, Inc.
Kevin Williams, CEO, Concretio
Rishi Shah, CEO, ContextMedia Inc.
Peter Ungaro, President and CEO, Cray Inc.
Sharnell Jackson, President/CEO, Data-Driven Innovations Consulting, Inc.
Rosemary Bussert , President/CEO, DataMart Direct Inc
Michael S. Dell, Chairman & CEO, Dell, Inc.
Anita S. Duckor, President, Duckor & Associates, Inc.
Douglas R Waggoner, CEO, Echo Global Logistics
Karl Gemperli, Chief Executive Officer, Elecsys Corporation
Joe Tucci, Chairman, President & CEO, EMC Corporation
Norm Hansen, President , Energy USA, Inc
Bruce E. Wood, CEO, ePower Synergies, Inc.
Christo, CEO, Excelisys, Inc.
Jim Beaupre , CEO , FedResults, Inc.
David Grothe, President, Gcom, Inc
Andrew Clarke, CEO, Ground Floor Partners
Timothy J Early, President/CEO, Hampton Roads Technology Council
Thomas Blair, CEO, Hard Hat Services
H B Turner, President, Heatron, Inc.
Mark V. Hurd, Chairman, CEO & President, Hewlett-Packard Company
Sandee Kastrul, President, i.c.stars
Badar Munir, CEO, i3 Technologies, Inc
Mike Gulett, President & CEO, Ikanos Communications, Inc.
Matthew Summy, CEO, Illinois Science & Technology Coalition
William A Dick, Chief Executive Officer, IllinoisRocstar LLC
Gregory Tilley, President, Infotech Enterprises America, Inc.
Paul Otellini, President & CEO, Intel
Jay Marhoefer, CEO, Intelligent Generation LLC
James Talbot, CEO, Ionit Technologies Inc.
GORDON CLOSE, VICE PRESIDENT GOVERNMENT SALES, JANES POWER SYSTEMS, INC.
Irwin Jarett , Owner, Jarett & Associates
Tony Picciola, President , Jupiterbay
Howard Moore, CEO, Keste
Nancy Munro, Director Business Development, KnowledgeShift
Thomas Kuczmarski, President, Kuczmarski & Associates
Tim Lydell, CEO, Label Vision Systems, Inc
William Henderson , President, Lignos, Inc.
Gordon Hunter, CEO, Littelfuse Inc.,
Moises J. Goldman, Managing Partner, M&J Acquisitions L.L.C.
Shelley Mabery, President/CEO, Maberry Consulting and Evaluation Services LLC
Keith E. McKee, President, Manufacturing Productivity Center
Martin Hebig, CSQA, CSTE, President, Maverick Software Consulting
Patrick Irestone, President, Meritide Inc
Rick Dodson, CEO , MicroMed LLC
Steven A. Ballmer , CEO , Microsoft
Tamara Gillard, Executive Director, MN Computers for Schools
Salvatore Iannuzzi, Chairman, President & CEO, Monster Worldwide, Inc.
Jim Hanekamp, CEO, Myfitbrain.com
Jess Jankowski, Chief Executive Officer, Nanophase Technologies Corporation
Cathy Owen, CEO , Nanopoint Inc.
Bart Carlson, CEO , Napersoft
Donald Macleod, Chairman & CEO, National Semiconductor
David Koelliker, Chairman, CEO, Natural BioScience
Bill Nuti, Chairman & CEO, NCR
Richard W. Lally, President, Oceana Sensor Technologies, Inc.
John Torkelson, President, Online Strategic Systems
Geoffrey Kasselman, SIOR, LEED AP , President, Op2mize, LLC
Safra A. Catz, President, Oracle Corporation
Terri Greeno, President, P.D. Life Enterprises
Bruce Ballengee, CEO, Pariveda Solutions, Inc.
Martin H. Singer, Chairman and CEO, PCTEL
Carolos Lazalde, President & CEO, Pentagon Technologies
Bill Cortelyou, CEO, Phoseon Technology
Don Jarrell, CEO, Prista Corporation
George Sadler, Founder, PROVE IT, LLC
Levi Moore, President, PROXY 2.0
Scott Grout , CEO , RadiSys Corp
David Stieger, Director of Finance, Radisys Corporation
Jonathan Pine, President, Renova Technology
Day Veerlapati, President and CEO, S2Tech
Paul Sand, President and CEO , Salare Security LLC
Peter H. Grimlund, CEO, Seeonic, Inc.
Gary R. Fairhead, President / CEO, SigmaTron International, Inc.
Matthew Medeiros, President & CEO , SonicWALL Inc.
Blake Branson, Chief Technology Officer, sp3 nanotech, LLC
Sheila Brooks, Founder and CEO, SRB Communications, LLC
Tom Werner, CEO, SunPower
Chet Kolodziej, CEO, SuperMaterials, Inc
Chris Hansen, CEO, TechAmerica
Mike Diamond, CEO, Telemedicine Solutions, LLC
Richard K. Templeton, Chairman, President & CEO, Texas Instruments
Vickie A. Hill, CEO, The Norcross Group, Inc.
Rob Stewart, CEO, The Quality Group, Inc.
Carol Sherman, President, TransLumen Technologies, LLC
Steve Sharp, Chairman of the Board, TriQuint Semiconductor
Christian Ibeagwa , owner/proprietor, U & L Crafts
Scott Upp, CEO, Upp Technology, Inc.
T. Kendall Hunt, Chairman & CEO, VASCO Data Security International, Inc.
Virgil Mathis, Innovator -for Amputee Veterans, Veterans / work-force Development Chicago
Tom Kieffer, CEO, Virteva LLC
Ken Myer, President & CEO, Washington Technology Industry Association
David Welliver, President, WellAdvised LLC
Mike Klein, CEO, WTN Media
James R. Von Ehr, President, Zyvex Labs, LLC

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