President Barack Obama today named Google's Megan Smith as his new chief technology officer.
At the same time, legal expert Alexander Macgillivray, who has worked at Twitter and Google, became deputy CTO.
Smith is the third person to fill the top role, after Aneesh Chopra and Todd Park. Park served as CTO during the chaotic rollout of HealthCare.gov, the Web centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law.
"Smith will guide the Administration’s information-technology policy and initiatives, continuing the work of her predecessors to accelerate attainment of the benefits of advanced information and communications technologies across every sector of the economy and aspect of human well-being," a White House blog post said today.
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