Monument Advocacy Hires Former Internet Association Exec: Monument Advocacy, a lobbying firm with large tech and cyber clients, announced yesterday the hiring of Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi, who formerly was the director of cloud policy at Internet Association, a trade group representing Google, Twitter and Facebook. Ghaffari-Tabrizi will join the firm’s technology practice. He also previously worked in the Technology Transformation Services within the General Services Administration.