Automation Alley Chief Named Trade Adviser

12/20/10

Ken Rogers, executive director of Automation Alley, the Troy, MI-based technology business association, has been appointed to a trade advisory panel by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke. Automation Alley, in a news release, says Rogers will serve on the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Information and Communications Technologies, Services, and Electronic Commerce. He will advise Locke on trade agreements, serving as a representative from Automation Alley and for the U.S. information and communications technologies industry sector, until his term ends in 2014. Rogers, in a prepared statement, says he “can offer my thoughts and suggestions on encouraging and increasing exporting, both in Michigan and in the United States.”

Howard Lovy is Xconomy's Detroit correspondent. You can reach him at hlovy@xconomy.com. Follow @