Donnie Fowler has achieved a leading role in both political and high technology circles through his work as vice president at TechNet in Silicon Valley, at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, in the Clinton White House, and with political campaigns in fifteen states (including five presidential cycles).  He has advised dozens of companies, policymakers, public advocacy groups, and political campaigns on how to successfully manage their media, policy, business development, and technology agendas. Currently, he leads Dogpatch Strategies, a communications and public affairs firm serving green technology enterprises, and continues to support Cherry Tree Mobile media, a mobile technology company he co-founded in 2006.  
  
Fowler’s political background has included work as paid staff on five of the last six presidential campaigns, while his recent professional background has included work for Facebook, Stanford University, the Pew Charitable Trust, Al Gore (“Inconvenient Truth” and The Alliance for Climate Protection), the Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, MyPoints, CNET News, EnTrust Capital Management, SolarTech, and the Biotech Industry Organization.  He has made frequent appearances in local and national media on political and technology issues, including Fox News, HDNet, The Washington Post, LA Times, and as a blogger for the Huffington Post.  He spent 2008 on the road with Dan Rather as the principal Democratic commentator on the elections and was the senior state advisor for the Obama campaign in Indiana, a state won for the first time by a Democrat in 44 years.  
  
Fowler is a senior fellow at the Truman National Security Project, an alumnus of the American Council of Young Political Leaders, recently finishing his second trip to China as a delegate, and was an appointee of Governor Gray Davis to California’s Long-Term Economic Strategy Panel, charged with setting a long-term strategy for California’s economy. He is a South Carolina native and has lived in San Francisco since 2001.