Obama hires ICANN Founder as Chief Technology Officer

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Google’s Public Policy Chief To Be Deputy CTO for Obama Administration

Google’s head of public policy, Andrew McLaughlin, will join the Obama administration as deputy chief technology officer, according to a report by the New York Times. McLaughlin will assist former Virginia Secretary of Technology Aneesh Chopra, who President Obama appointed as CTO in April.

McLaughlin has been leading Google’s public policy efforts for quite some time now. According to this blog post, he was the first member of Google’s policy team in 2005.

Before his time at Google, McLaughlin launched the nonprofit group Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, where he serves as vice president, chief policy officer, and chief financial officer. Previously, McLaughlin was a senior fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet. Most recently, McLaughlin was working on the Obama/Biden presidential transition team in Washington.

McLaughlin isn’t the only Googler to join the Obama administration. Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who was speculated to be CTO, was recently named to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Former Google product manager Kate Stanton joined the White House as its director of citizen participation earlier this year.

 

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Seems well qualified for the job. Thanks for sharing Boca.

Oh, and I have to agree with comment #2 on Tech Crunch :hehe:

 

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OhohOhohohOhoHOhOhohOooooooooooooooooooooooooo... Signs are good, wonder what the cost will be no morE!

Thx mate i know wahta to do now..