Michael Sutphin, director of financial industry alliances at Sallie Mae until 2002, is state agency liaison officer at the department, according to his disclosure forms.

Nevertheless, Mr. Swift said he hoped that with the cinematographers on board, other industry alliances would follow and would be as financially helpful as the Teamsters.

QB3 also supports basic and applied research in selected regions of pharmaceutical chemistry through its industry alliance with Pfizer.

Sun and other Unix vendors created an industry alliance to standardize Unix desktops.

Like so many of the agents pushing telecommunications into the future, the cellular industry suffers confusion over competing standards and shifting industry alliances.

Yellowfin's primary business model is growth via channel sales through resellers, software partners as well as industry alliances such as Sybase.

The Active Archive Alliance is a collaborative industry alliance dedicated to promoting active archives for simplified, online access to all archived data.

Two separate industry alliances to be announced today share a similar target: creating alternatives to the personal computer - and to the Microsoft Corporation's operating systems - for Internet access.

That company, later named General Magic Inc., had grown out of Mr. Sculley's efforts to build industry alliances to develop new technologies.

SCOPE Alliance is an industry alliance committed to accelerating the deployment of carrier grade base platforms for service provider applications.