Staci Pies

Staci Pies is Senior Public Policy and Government Relations Counsel at Google, where she works to drive policies that support innovation. Ms. Pies represents Google before policymakers on issues such as Internet policy, broadband deployment, telecommunications regulation and access to spectrum.

Previously, Staci was director of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Microsoft, which she joined after three years at Skype, when Microsoft purchased the company at the end of 2011.

Staci is the current Chair of the Board of the VON Coalition, an internationally-recognized industry advocacy organization for businesses delivering IP innovations. She is also past-President of the Coalition from January 2004 to December 2007. Ms. Pies has testified before the United States House of Representatives and various state legislatures.

Before joining Skype in January 2008, Ms. Pies was VP of Governmental and Regulatory Affairs for PointOne, a wholesale VoIP provider, and Director of Federal Regulatory Affairs for Level 3 Communications.

Staci also held a number of positions at the FCC including Deputy Division Chief, Network Services and senior attorney in the FCC’s former Common Carrier Bureau, where she served in leadership roles on proceedings promoting the deployment of broadband and other information services.

Ms. Pies graduated from the Washington College of Law at the American University, in Washington, D.C. and received a B.A. from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. She lives in Maryland with her husband and son.