“For the first time in two years—and for the first time under President Trump—the U.S. is set to have a chief technology officer. On March 21 the president will nominate for the post Michael Kratsios, a former venture capitalist who now serves as deputy CTO, a White House official tells Bloomberg Businessweek…”
“Kratsios has spent the past couple of years in the somewhat uncomfortable position of fashioning tech policy for a president who doesn’t use email and has expressed open hostility to the biggest tech companies and to technology generally. Trump has loudly criticized Amazon.com, Facebook, and Google. Yet even some of the president’s critics say they’ve been encouraged by Kratsios’s record as deputy…” Read the full article here.
Source: Trump Finally Names a U.S. CTO – By Max Chafkin, March 21, 2019. Bloomberg Businessweek.
