Obama's CTO Pick: Silicon Valley Rallies

For all of its attributes as the world's epicenter of innovation, Silicon Valley remains an insular region in some ways. Many technology leaders are rallying behind President Barack Obama’s surprising choice for the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer: Aneesh Chopra, Virginia secretary of Technology. As a secretary of Technology in Virginia, he made to expand Virginia’s high-speed internet. And now he stands for U.S. Chief Technology Officer.
Chopra was educated on the East Coast and has never worked for a California tech stalwart or startup. But giants such as Google, industry trade groups such as TechNet, and top Valley luminaries such as Intel Chairman Craig Barrett and prominent blogger Tim O'Reilly are applauding the 37-year-old Indian-American as a superb choice for the nation's top technology czar. Chopra has the chops, say Valley veterans, to have an impact.
"Aneesh Chopra is one of technology's leading lights and we are lucky to have him as our nation's Chief Technology Officer," said Intel's Barrett in a written statement. "Aneesh demonstrated outstanding leadership as Virginia's secretary of technology and believes to his core that innovation and technology are the backbone of our economy."
Vinod Khosla, the prominent Indian-American venture capitalist, said in a statement that President Obama had picked a rising star that can use technology to bring people together.
Many speculations arise about President Obama’s pick, but he believes that Aneesh Chopra will bring new innovation to America’s Technology as what he did to Virginia. And he wants to bring up the fact that we are living in the same world, and we are having the same talents whether your black or white.