Report: Google Exec Named as Obama's Deputy CTO

The Obama administration had reportedly snapped up another Google executive.Andrew McLaughlin, head of public policy for Google, will leave the company to become Obama's deputy chief technology officer, reporting to CTO Aneesh Chopra.McLaughlin joined Google five years ago, and has also worked at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).Google CEO Eric Schmidt served on Obama's transition team, but insisted that he did not want the CTO role. Others were not as hesitant - Katie Stanton, a former Google project manager, is now the White House director of citizen participation, and former Google.org executive Sonal Shah is the head of the White House office of social innovation.