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Tech Industry Cheers as Obama Taps Aneesh Chopra for CTO

in News on April 18, 2009 at 10:08 pm PT

It may not be the Cabinet-level post that some were hoping for, but President Obama finally named the U.S.’s first chief technology officer on Saturday morning during his weekly radio and Internet address. Aneesh Chopra, currently Virginia’s secretary of technology, got the nod and will soon join his former colleague, Vivek Kundra, the national chief information officer, on a team tasked with using technology to make government more efficient.

From Plumber of the Internet to Plumber of the Economy?

in News on October 7, 2008 at 10:36 am PT

When he appeared at our D5 conference in May 2007, Sen. John McCain said that, given the chance, he’d hire Cisco CEO John Chambers for his cabinet. Now, in the run-up to the November presidential election, it looks like Chambers has some competition for that spot. In an interview with Reuters, McCain said that Chambers is still on his short list of potential Treasury secretaries, but the Cisco CEO has some company.