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December 31, 2016. Dr. Tobin has fifteen years of experience as a
business manager, market researcher and consultant in corporate
America at institutions including Hewlett-Packard Corporation,
IBM and Catalyst. She also has worked for fifteen years as a university
faculty member and administrator.
In 2009, Dr. Tobin was appointed by President Obama as Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Performance Improvement at the U.S. Department
of Education. She focused on strengthening the Department’s
capacity to work more effectively with its political and educational
partners at the national, state and local levels.
In 2006, Dr. Tobin was appointed by President George W. Bush
and served as a member of the Board of Governors of the U.S.
Postal Service. Dr. Tobin provided strategic vision to the executive
team, helped direct and control expenditures, reviewed business
practices, conducted long-range planning and set policies on all
postal matters. She also chaired the Board’s Audit and Finance
Committee at a critical time, when, due to Congress’s 2006 legislation,
the U.S. Postal Service needed to strengthen its organizational
and financial controls to become compliant by 2010 with the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
During her years at Hewlett-Packard, Dr. Tobin worked in the
Corporation’s Computer Systems Division and the Systems Technology
Division which were responsible for developing minicomputer
systems purchased around the world for business, medical
and scientific usage. Dr. Tobin worked closely with R&D and
marketing teams early in the product development life cycle to insure
that customer needs were clearly understood and translated
into engineering and market specifications.
Working as a consultant with IBM’s senior leaders, Dr. Tobin
conducted research on the corporation’s values across all its global
operations, institutional brand awareness and preference, distribution
channels management, and the creation of a new business
plan for IBM’s Global Financing business.
Dr. Tobin earned a Ph.D. and Master of Arts degree from Stanford
University. She earned a Master of Arts degree in Teaching
from the University of Massachusetts and a Bachelor of Arts in
English from Skidmore College. Currently, she also serves as a
member of the U.S. Postal Service’s Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee
which recommends to the Postmaster General subjects reflecting
America’s values and achievements for portrayal on commemorative
stamps.
Michael R. Wessel
Commissioner Michael R. Wessel, an original member of the
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, was reappointed
by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi for a eighth
two-year term expiring on December 31, 2016.
Commissioner Wessel served on the staff of former House Democratic
Leader Richard Gephardt for more than two decades, leaving
his position as general counsel in March 1998. In addition, Commissioner
Wessel was Congressman Gephardt’s chief policy advisor,
strategist, and negotiator. He was responsible for the development,
coordination, management, and implementation of the Democratic
leader’s overall policy and political objectives, with specific respon-
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