President Trump has named Michael Kratsios deputy chief technology officer of the United States, a position within the White House Office of Science and Technology.
Kratsios is formerly chief of staff at San Francisco-based investment firm Thiel Capital, which is led by venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
Kratsios succeeds deputy CTO Alexander Macgillivray, who had served as general counsel, head of public policy, corporate development at Twitter, and earlier as deputy general counsel for products and IP at Google.
Prior to Thiel Capital, Kratsios served as chief financial officer and chief compliance officer at Clarium Capital Management, another company founded by Thiel.
No word yet on who might fill the position of chief technology officer of the United States and assistant to the president, a position created by the Obama Administration and last held by Megan J. Smith, a former Google executive, who studied technology at MIT.
Smith was the third chief technology officer of the United States. Aneesh Chopra, appointed in 2009, was the first. He had served as the secretary of technology for the state of Virginia from 2006 through 2009. Between the two, from 2012-2014, Todd Park held the position CTO of the United States. Park co-founded athenahealth with Jonathan Bush in 1997, then co-founded Castlight Health in 2008 and later served as CTO of Health and Human Services.
All three technologists were appointed by then President Barack Obama.
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