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Senator Larry Pressler |
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Retired Senator Larry Pressler (Age 61) was a member of Congress (R - S.D.) for 22 years - 18 years in the United States Senate and 4 in the U.S. House; he authored the Telecommunications Act of 1996; served as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee (jurisdiction over all technology related issues); authored various aviation, pipeline, transportation, satellite, foreign policy, business and trade legislation during his time in Congress; is a former Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, England (graduate) and Harvard Law School graduate. Pressler was awarded Vietnam decorations for his service as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army in Vietnam. He currently serves on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Education Center Advisory Council.
Since leaving the U.S. Senate in 1997, Larry Pressler has pursued a business career largely centered on information technologies and telecommunications law practice; teaching; and serving on corporate boards. In particular, he is actively involved in the software and business services sector, including serving on the board of directors of India's largest IT services company, Infosys.
Senator Pressler keeps a busy schedule, but his activities enable him to assist clients throughout the world. He has made numerous successful trips on international business to India, Brazil, Europe and the Far East. He is a frequent speaker at investment banking conferences with titles such as “What's Happening Next in Telecommunications Policy?” and has recently lectured at Harvard on Corporate Governance. Pressler served as a member of Republican Presidential Candidate George W. Bush's IT Steering Committee 2000, and was a member of the Bush Transition Team in January and February 2001.
Pressler has been a visiting professor of government at the University of South Dakota and is a member of the adjunct faculty at the Native American Oglala Lakota College in South Dakota. He was a Senior Fellow at the University of California in Los Angeles for the year 2001. He taught American Government at the University of Sioux Falls.
Senator Pressler also serves on a variety of corporate boards, as well as advisory boards, of several U.S. and Indian companies, including Infosys (NASDAQ:INFY) and WTP Capital LLC. Senator Pressler travels to India several times a year to perform his board duties, give lectures, and attend to other business. |
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