BANGALORE: There is no doubt that the Silicon Valley has produced some amazing tech talent over the years who have gone to become top executives of most reputed companies. Banking on this reputation, President Barack Obama named two key positions on his technology policy team to bring in more assistance and give feasible advice on Big Data and privacy issues, reports Reuters.

President Obama handpicked Megan Smith from Google as his chief technology officer and Alexander Macgillivray, formerly of Twitter, as a deputy to his technology policy team. These developments also showed the President’s eagerness to put together a strong tech force to handle the Government’s big ticket policies related to Big Data and privacy policy to stay on top of technological innovation.

Smith, the new U.S. CTO, is an MIT-trained mechanical engineer and entrepreneur with great knowledge in the California tech world. She currently serves as a vice president at Google[x], the company's lab for ambitious next-generation projects, like its delivery-by-drone Project Wing and its balloon-borne Internet connectivity program Project Loon. Additionally, for over nine years, Smith led Google's team responsible for developing new business, where she was at the forefront of acquisitions that would become Google Earth and Google Maps.

On the other hand Alexander Macgillivray, formerly of Twitter, who is named as her deputy, is a graduate of both Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and served as Twitter's general counsel from 2009 until August of 2013.

Before joining Twitter, Macgillivray was with Google as deputy general, where he was deeply involved with the company's legal internal strife over its Google Books search feature.

Following this naming Smith will be the country's third-ever Chief Technology Officer. Where in former Virginia Secretary of Technology, Aneesh Chopra, was the first to occupy this position during the spring of 2009, and serve until the winter of 2012.
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