Channelweb.com — Eric Schmidt the Chairman and CEO of Google refused Barack Obama’s offer to be the new administration-elect’s chief technology officer CTO, and this was little weird because Schmidt is one of prominent supporters of Obama through presidential elections.
We have to say that this position includes many risks and duties such as bring US back to compete in the IT market, aggressive searching on every new in this market and how could this technology be used .
Other big names were recommended for the position too including Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Amazon President and CEO Jeff Bezos, but Schmidt says his situation clearly couple of days age when answering a question posed to him by CNBC’s Jim Cramer: “I love working at Google and I’m very happy to stay at Google, so the answer is no.”
“This is far from the marginalized position of an IT manager who apathetically reports to the CFO about cost cutting and risk management,” Tolido writes. “This is a boardroom position, one that is supposed to create strong impulses for change and growth.”
Schmidt with one of Obama’s 17-person economic transition economic advisory board which had performed in Chicago last week. The group discussed various ways of dealing with the continuing financial crisis and critical problems solutions; Schmidt believes that the Green energy could be involved in many ways to refresh the economy; For example, laid-off autoworkers in Michigan could be go back to work building batteries for use in hybrid vehicles.
