Cisco CTO Being Considered Fort The U.S. CTO Gig

Cisco Systems chief technology officer Padmasree Warrior is on a very short list of candidates being considered for the U.S. CTO job. She is on a short list that also includes Vivek Kundra, CTO of Washington, D.C., according to BusinessWeek magazine. Warrior, who was CTO of Motorola before switching to Cisco was a keynote speaker at our Mobilize 08 Conference. Of the two, if I had to be, she is likely to be President Obama’s pick. She lived in Chicago for during her tenure at Motorola. A graduate of Indian Institute of Technology and Cornell University, she has spent her entire working life in technology.Kundra is also a well regarded but has spent considerable time in the government.