January 20th, 2009
My choice for President Obama's CTO . . .
President Obama has promised to appoint the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer and I have the perfect candidate.
The perfect candidate should have these qualities (imho):
- They should be from the Silicon Valley region (because Silicon Valley is a national treasure and the global engine of innovation (bar none)).
- They should be a serial entrepreneur (so that they understand the ups and downs, the elation and the depression of an entrepreneur, and yet they go back and do it again, . . . and again, and again)).
- They should have several years of experience at a senior VP executive level at one of Silicon Valley’s top technology companies.
- They are on the board of directors of some of our largest companies.
- They have made an academic study of innovation and they understand the dynamics of how innovation is done and what can destroy it.
- They are very comfortable talking with the media about their ideas.
- They have met with top government officials on the subject of innovation and how to preserve US leadership.
- They are in the prime of their life.
- They have a near universal respect from their peers.
Who am I describing? Let me know if you know someone that fits this profile . . . ( I have the perfect candidate I’ll give you my suggestion later this week but maybe you can guess from my description.)
Tom Foremski reports on the business and culture of Silicon Valley at the intersection of technology and media. He also writes at Silicon Valley Watcher. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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