Michael Aisenberg
Director of Governmental Relations, VeriSign, Inc.
Michael Aisenberg is Director of Government Relations for VeriSign, Inc. in Washington, D.C., serving as principal liaison with the Administration and Federal agencies, including the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, State and Justice. He also manages a portfolio of policy issues, including global infrastructure security, digital signatures, intellectual property and government procurement on behalf of the world's leading Internet trust and identity provider. Previously, he served for seventeen years as Digital Equipment Corporation's Washington public policy program director and lobbyist, addressing issues including reform of Federal I/T acquisition policy, critical infrastructure protection, E-commerce policy, the Year 2000 computer problem, export controls, patent/antitrust reform, reductions in European Community tariffs on electronics products, and Federal R&D budget policy.
Mr. Aisenberg holds a B. A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J. D. from the University of Maine School of Law. He attended Georgetown University Law Center in 1975-76, and upon graduation, served five years as an attorney, attorney-advisor and legislative counsel at the FCC. A member of the District of Columbia Bar, the Courts of Appeals of the D.C. and Federal Circuits and the Federal Communications Bar Association, he has been a lecturer in Communications Law at the University of Maryland.
A native of Worcester, Massachusetts, Aisenberg is the father of two adult sons, and resides with his wife in Northern Virginia.
Appearances
- Computer Security: What Your Constituents Need to Know October 22, 2004
Biography last updated October 22, 2004