The Government Relations Committee provides member companies with opportunities to meet and establish positive relationships with local, state, and federal public policy leaders. In addition, the Committee educates member company representatives about public policy issues, processes, and systems.
Specifically, the Government Relations Committee seeks to:
- Increase Leadership Group member involvement in Sacramento, Washington D.C., and local outreach efforts in coordination with Leadership Group policy committees to deliver policy goals in a unified voice by engaging federal, statewide, and local elected officials, appointed officials, and key staff members.
- Provide education forums to assist in the awareness of voter, policy, and advocacy efforts, trends, and best practices.
- Improve knowledge of Leadership Group mission, goals, and policy priorities with Sacramento elected and appointed officials, Washington D.C. public officials, and Silicon Valley counties and city officials
Co-Chairs
Donna Blitzer, UC Santa Cruz
Nancy Noe, Johnson & Johnson
Member Company Participants
- Apple
- Applied Materials
- AT&T
- Brocade
- Chevron Energy
- Cisco
- Comcast
- CSU Hayward
- eBay
- Edgewood Venture Capital
- El Camino Hospital
- Gilead Sciences
- Huawei
- HP
- IBM
- Intel
- Intermolecular
- JDSU
- Johnson & Johnson
- Kaiser Permanente
- Library World
- Lockheed Martin Space Systems
- Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
- Microsoft
- PG&E
- San Jose State University
- San Jose Water Company
- Sol Focus
- Southwest Airlines
- SVB Financial Group
- Synopsys
- University of California at Berkeley
- University of California at Santa Cruz
- Visa
- Wells Fargo Bank
- West Valley Mission Community College District
