9 posts and columns on chief technology officer

Google Buzz Exposes White House Deputy CTO (And Ex-Googler)

in Social on March 30, 2010 at 12:18 pm PT

This is pretty funny. Among the many Gmail subscribers to have their private contacts exposed in the Google Buzz privacy fiasco was Andrew McLaughlin, the Obama administration’s deputy chief technology officer and Google’s former head of global public policy.

EMC Poaches Top Intel Exec

in News on September 14, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

Thirty years at Intel was evidently more than enough for Pat Gelsinger. He’s giving up his job as senior VP of the company’s Digital Enterprise Group to run EMC’s storage-products operations, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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Dude, Where's My Czar?

in News on August 4, 2009 at 5:01 am PT

Add Melissa Hathaway to the list of cybersecurity experts who don’t want the job of White House cybersecurity czar. Hathaway, a former Bush administration official who led President Obama’s recent 60-day review of the federal government’s cybersecurity efforts, was thought to be a leading contender for the position. But according to The Wall Street Journal, she asked not to be considered for that post about two weeks ago, citing personal reasons. And now she’s resigned her current post as well.
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Dude, Where’s My Czar?

in News on August 4, 2009 at 5:01 am PT

Add Melissa Hathaway to the list of cybersecurity experts who don’t want the job of White House cybersecurity czar. Hathaway, a former Bush administration official who led President Obama’s recent 60-day review of the federal government’s cybersecurity efforts, was thought to be a leading contender for the position. But according to The Wall Street Journal, she asked not to be considered for that post about two weeks ago, citing personal reasons. And now she’s resigned her current post as well.
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YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen Moves On, Stays with Google

in Media on June 30, 2009 at 10:50 am PT

YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, who oversaw the company’s technical operations as it grew from an upstart to the world’s biggest video site, no longer works at the site day-to-day. This is old news, literally: Chen left his spot as chief technology officer last fall, though he remains employed at Google, which bought his company for $1.65 billion in 2006.
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Ex-Googler's New White House Job Rankles Some

in News on June 3, 2009 at 3:01 pm PT

Andrew McLaughlin’s departure from Google to the Obama administration has prompted a little grumbling among some consumer advocates and the search giant’s corporate foes. Mr. McLaughlin, who was Google’s head of global public policy and government affairs, is leaving Silicon Valley for Washington, D.C., to become a deputy to Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, who’s in charge of advancing the president’s tech agenda.

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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.

Where in the World Is America's CTO?

in News on February 11, 2009 at 5:30 am PT

With the naming of Oracle President Charles Phillips to President Barack Obama’s 16-Member Economic Recovery Advisory Board a few days ago, another Silicon Valley tech mandarin fell off the list to become America’s first chief technology officer. The job–which was promised by President Barack Obama during his campaign and underscored when he released a memorandum on transparency and open government that outlined some of the CTO duties the day after he was sworn in–remains unfilled. While everyone is rightly focusing on the economic crisis, inquiring minds still want to know who is getting the job as head geek.