Top Techies: Levin, Genachowski, Shah
The Obama-Biden Transition Team announced today leaders for a series of Policy Working Groups for the presidential transition.
The focus of the Policy Working Groups, the team said, will be to develop the priority policy proposals and plans from the Obama Campaign for action during the Obama-Biden Administration.
The Technology, Innovation and Governmental Reform group will be headed by Julius Genachowski, Blair Levin and Sonal Shah.
Genachowski is co-founder of Rock Creek Ventures and LaunchBox Digital, a special advisor at General Atlantic, and a member of various boards of directors and advisers.
From 1997 to 2005, he was a senior executive at IAC/InterActiveCorp, where his roles included chief of business operations, general counsel, and a member of the office of the chairman. Genachowski served at the FCC from 1994 to 1997, including as chief Counsel to the chairman.
Levin is a managing director of Stifel Nicolaus and serves as the firm's principal telecom, media and tech regulatory and strategy analyst. Prior to his work as an analyst,. Levin served as chief of staff to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt from 1993 through 1997. Before joining the FCC, Levin was a partner in the North Carolina law firm of Parker Poe, Poe, Adams and Bernstein.
Shah heads Google.org's global development efforts. Prior to joining Google, she was vice president at Goldman, Sachs and Co. developing and implementing the firm's environmental policy.She is also the co-founder of Indicorps, a U.S.-based non-profit organization offering one-year fellowships Indian-Americans to work on development projects in India.
Sonal also worked at the Center for American Progress on trade, outsourcing and post conflict issues and the Center for Global Development on development policy issues. Sonal worked at the Department of Treasury from 1995-2002 on various economic issues and regions of the world, including Bosnia, Kosovo, the Asian crisis and sub-Saharan Africa. During that time she also worked at the National Security Council from 1998-1999.
Other groups will include Economy, Education, Energy and Environment, Health Care, Immigration and National Security.
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