Nasscom hires US lobbyist for H-1B issue

BENGALURU: IT industry body Nasscom has roped in Spencer Abraham, the former Republican senator from Michigan and US energy secretary under former president George Bush, as lobbyist to change perception in the Trump administration and other stakeholders about how the $180-billion industry has serviced a majority of the Fortune 500 in their transformation programmes.
Abraham, chairman and CEO of strategic consulting firm The Abraham Group, has worked in the US government for over 30 years in energy, tax policy, national security, immigration and corporate governance areas. “There is a huge effort by Nasscom to change that perception. We are working actively on three fronts: Through key spokespersons like Spencer Abraham; with a market research agency to help separate sentiment from the fact; and hiring a marketing agency to find the best way of disseminating this information,” Nasscom chairman Rishad Premji told TOI.