John Doerr And Charles Phillips Named By Obama To Board

President Barack Obama named two prominent high-tech executives to an Economic Recovery Advisory Board on Friday, adding to Silicon Valley’s clout in Washington.

Oracles Charles Phillips named to presidential advisory board

Oracle's Charles Phillips named to presidential advisory board

Named by the president were John Doerr, a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Charles Phillips, a president at Oracle.

“I created this board to enlist voices to come from beyond the Washington echo chamber,” Obama said in brief remarks. “I also want to be sure that we’re tapping a broad and diverse range of opinion from across the country, because a historic crisis demands a historic response.”

The newly created board includes high-pedigree executives from manufacturing, finance and labor. It is to be headed by Paul Volcker, an economist and former chairman of the Federal Reserve.

The other members are:

*William H. Donaldson, former SEC chair;
*Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., President & CEO, TIAA-CREF
*Robert Wolf, Chairman & CEO, UBS Group Americas
*David F. Swensen, CIO, Yale University
*Mark T. Gallogly, Founder & Managing Partner, Centerbridge Partners L.P.
*Penny Pritzker, Chairman & Founder, Pritzker Realty Group
*Jeffrey R. Immelt, CEO, GE
*Jim Owens, Chairman and CEO, Caterpillar Inc.
*Monica C. Lozano, Publisher & Chief Executive Officer, La Opinion
*Anna Burger, Chair, Change to Win
*Richard L. Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
*Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Dean, Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley
*Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University

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