Robert Holleyman

 Over the past two decades, the high tech industry has expanded to include devices and technologies that powerfully alter how we work and live.  Under Holleyman's leadership, BSA has anticipated the new challenges associated with these dramatic advances, developing programs around the world that foster innovation, competition, free trade, cyber security and digital copyright protection.     Holleyman has headed the alliance since 1990, overseeing BSA operations in more than 85 countries, including offices in London, Singapore and Beijing. Holleyman has been active in leading the industry's efforts to expand into emerging markets including China and Eastern Europe. He is widely known for his work on policy-related issues affecting the technology industry including international copyright laws, cyber security, trade, and electronic commerce.         

In an effort to bring high tech CEOs to Washington to discuss policy issues and the future of tech innovation, Holleyman established BSA's CEO Forum series which includes meetings with senior officials in the White House, on Capitol Hill and the media.  He has also overseen development of BSA's Global Tech Summit, Chief Technology Officers' Forum and General Counsel Forum series, which highlight key industry issues and trends around the globe.        

Holleyman has been named one of the 50 most influential people in the intellectual property world by the international magazine, Managing Intellectual Property.   He was also named by The Washington Post as one of the "key players in the U.S. Government's cybersecurity efforts" for his work on behalf of industry on national cyber security policy.  And, Holleyman was designated by a leading computer trade magazine as one of its "Twenty to Watch" in the computer software industry.  He has also been named by Tech Counsel magazine as one of the most influential high tech lobbyists.         

Holleyman has appeared on all the leading network, public and cable television news programs, and has written articles about technology industry trends that have appeared in newspapers, magazines, law journals and business and high tech trade publications around the globe.

Before joining BSA, Holleyman spent eight years serving as counsel in the U.S. Senate and was an attorney with a leading law firm in Houston, Texas.  His early legal experience included service as a judicial clerk in the U.S. District Court in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Holleyman earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and his Juris Doctor at Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

He completed the executive management program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and serves on the boards of a number of civic and charitable organizations.