“President Barack Obama has named his chief technology officer, and the appointee is not a Silicon Valley name like so many predicted. He is Aneesh Chopra. As the Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia, his job has been to ‘leverage technology in government reform, promote Virginia’s innovation agenda, and foster technology-related economic development with a special emphasis on entrepreneurship.’ But Chopra’s not a tech guy. Before he got his secretary job in 2005, he was a managing director at the Advisory Board Company, a public-market health care think tank, as well as an angel investor.”
Aneesh Chopra as the nation's first Chief Technology Officer. Chopra, who has effectively been doing much the same job at a state level in his role as Secretary of Technology for Governor Kaine of Virginia , will closely work with Vivek Kundra.
[The role of the CTO is to provide visionary leadership, to help a company (or in this case, a government) explore the transformative potential of new technology.]
Hope Aneesh will have success in his new responsibillity.
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