High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! David Marchick (born 1967) is an American lawyer and former Deputy United States Assistant Secretary of State who served in the Clinton Administration from January 1993 to October 1999. As Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Marchick was the chief U.S. negotiator for open skies, an international policy concept calling for liberalization of international commercial aviation industry rules and regulations. While successful at negotiating open skies policies with various countries, Marchick became frustrated at the long-term, slow pace of U.S.-Brittan aviation bilateral negotiations and left government to join a website based business during the historic 1997-2000 dot-com bubble. After working as Vice President of Development for the online auction business Bid4Assets, where he sold government assets and assets of bankrupt online companies, Marchick joined Washington, D.C. based international law firm Covington & Burling in March 2002 as...