President Obama names Chief Digital Officer

Thursday March 26, 2015

Hail to the Chief … Digital Officer!
President Obama names first-ever White House Chief Digital Officer

On Tuesday, President Obama named Jason Goldman as the White House’s first-ever Chief Digital Officer.

“As the first-ever Chief Digital Officer at the White House, Jason Goldman brings new energy and coveted expertise as someone who’s helped shape the digital age,” President Obama said.

Goldman will oversee digital outreach for the White House, and lead the Office of Digital Strategy.

According to Goldman, “my job will be to help create more meaningful online engagement between government and American citizens.”

Goldman has worked in product development and management roles at Blogger, Google, and Twitter, alongside Ev Williams and Biz Stone.

This news follows on the heels of the White House appointment last week of Facebook engineer David Recordon as the first-ever director of Information Technology, and the February 2015 appointment of D.J. Patil as the country’s first-ever Chief Data Scientist.

Patil reports into former Google executive Megan Smith, who was tapped to serve as the White House’s new Chief Technology Officer in Fall, 2014.

Read all about it here

NYC 2015 CDO Summit Speakers

Johanna Murphy
Chief Marketing Officer
and Digital Director
Ivanka Trump

Dr. Didier Bonnet
Senior Vice President and Global Practice Leader
Capgemini Consulting

Jessica Federer
Chief Digital Officer
Bayer

Ganesh Bell
Chief Digital Officer & GM,
Software and Analytics
General Electric

Alexander van Boetzelaer
Managing Director
R&D Solutions
Elsevier Inc.

Fernando Alvarez
Chief Digital Officer
Capgemini Consulting

Jim Rosenberg
Chief of Digital Strategy
UNICEF

Brock Weatherup
Chief Digital Officer / SVP
PetSmart

Haile Owusu, PhD
Chief Data Scientist
Mashable

Jo Ann Saitta
Chief Digital Officer
The CDM Group

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Join us for the 3rd annual Chief Digital Officer summit, presented by Capgemini and hosted by Thomson Reuters on 29 April 2015. We’re excited to announce a partial list of speakers below:

Fernando Alvarez: Chief Digital Officer at Capgemini Consulting
Rajesh Anandan: Senior Vice President at UNICEF Ventures
Ganesh Bell: Chief Digital Officer & GM, Software and Analytics at General Electric
Dr. Didier Bonnet: SVP and Global Practice Leader at Capgemini Consulting
Jessica Federer: Chief Digital Officer at Bayer
Tony Fross: VP, Practice Lead, Digital Customer Experience at Capgemini Consulting
Joe Johnston: VP, Experience Innovation at Universal Mind
Amen Mashariki: Chief Analytics Officer at NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics
Faisal Masud: Chief Digital Officer & EVP Global E-Commerce at Staples
David Mathison: Curator, CDO Summit; Founder, CDO Club
Jen McClure: Vice President, Digital & Social Media at Thomson Reuters
Johanna Murphy: Chief Marketing Officer and Digital Director at Ivanka Trump
Haile Owusu, PhD: Chief Data Scientist at Mashable
Keyvan Peymani: Managing Director, Digital Strategy Division at ICM Partners
Jaime Punishill: Head of Cross Channel Customer Strategy at TIAA-CREF
Jim Rosenberg: Chief of Digital Stragey at UNICEF
Jo Ann Saitta: Chief Digital Officer at The CDM Group
Steven Schwartz: Global Managing Director, Reuters News Agency at Thomson Reuters
Sumita Singh: Senior Vice President Marketing, Corporate Markets at Elsevier
Sree Sreenivasan: Chief Digital Officer at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Brock Weatherup: Chief Digital Officer/ SVP at PetSmart
Many more coming…

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Hail to the Chief … Digital Officer! President Obama names first-ever White House Chief Digital Officer