Obama names tech execs to transition team

President-elect Barack Obama has named tech executives from Google.org and InterActiveCorp to his transition team, according to reports.

Google.org's Sonal Shah, and Julius Genachowski, a former IAC executive who also served as chief counsel to former Democratic FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, have both been named to the team, according to news reports.

Genachowski is a co-founder and managing director of Rock Creek Ventures, and is a founding partner of LaunchBox Digital, an early-stage investment firm based in Washington, D.C.

He attended law school with Obama, and helped stress the importance of high-tech issues in the campaign, The Washington Post reported.

Shah, who works for Google's philanthropy division Google.org, formerly served as a vice president at Goldman Sachs.

Obama's team is also reported to be readying a new Web site for the transition, www.change.gov, which, according to news reports will launch today.

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[Olu070]

Doesn't anyone else find it refreshing that campaign promises and plans are being publicly displayed and updated on the web? Hopefully it will allow us to have a little more insight to the entity known as the US government

[spkrman6]

The thing that frightens me about that was the mention of his history at Goldman-Sachs. Apparently Obama will be drawing his people from the same group of big bank elites that supplied Bush with Henry Paulsonand his gang who brought us the bank Bailout of 2008.