The revolving door from government to private sector has apparently been replaced with ramp or chute, for faster connections. For example:    

As chief of Governor Shumlin’s ConnectVT Karen Marshall worked with private sector companies that were to receive roughly $410 million in federal funds. Other duties to be engaged in were efforts across state government to use broadband to improve the way that public services are delivered. Marshall was ConnectVT’s sole employee and for two years had an office with the governor’s other close advisors on the fifth floor of the Pavilion building. Prior to this appointment Marshall had been Chief Operating Officer of a document shredding company, and before that had been an executive with Comcast and Clear Channel Communications.  

Now shortly after the Shumlin administration announced a $5 million grant to VTel, Marshall has taken a job with that company, according to the Valley News.

Marshall, who made $115,000 a year as chief of ConnectVT, will be the new president of VTel Data Network. […] The company, based in Springfield, Vt., received $116 million in federal stimulus grants in 2011 for broadband expansion in rural, underserved areas of the state.

VTel is owned and run by Michael Guite, a former Wall Street analyst who has been struggling to bring broadband to rural Vermont for several years. Vermont’s Upper Valley residents may remember that he made news in 2008 for trying to relocate the remains of a War of 1812 veteran and family from their plot on Guite’s property.

[New:] While at ConnectVT Marshall helped forge a partnership between (the pre-merger) GMP, CVPS, and VTel. That deal was formalized in July 2011, and according to GMP’s COO amped up VTel’s expansion 20-25 percent. Guite, who would later become Marshall’s employer, then had high praise for her efforts. The CEO of VTel said,

the Vermont project will be using cutting edge technology that is unique in the United States and is of an international caliber. “I wish I could say this was our idea,” Guite said. “The cutting edge of innovation came from the utilities and the governor’s office. I’m proud they brought us into it.”

As a member of the Vermont Telecom Authority (VTA) board Marshall was present at two meetings  – the last one Dec.7 2012, where the million dollar grant to her new employer was approved by voice vote. She (Marshall) told the Valley News on January 10th that

she did not engage in job conversations with VTel until Dec. 12, when she and Guite “had a mutual conversation on the 12th in which I shared some of the challenges I face in balancing some of my family considerations with my current role.”

An executive code of conduct enacted by Governor Shumlin reportedly prohibits any lobbying of colleagues or legislators for one year after leaving government employment.

The Governor’s spokesperson in an email to the Valley News said (frostily?) in part,

When the administration learned that [Marshall] had accepted an offer with VTel, we let her know that she would need to end her state employment immediately.

And,

We wish Karen well in her new position.

Seems she’s doing just fine. These days some connected Vermonters climb the ladder, and others take the chute.