VanRoekel Will Stay On At The White House

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | November 9, 2012

Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel confirmed via Twitter Friday that he plans to stay in the White House during President Obama’s second term.

VanRoekel was named the nation’s second-ever CIO in August 2011 after a long career as an executive at Microsoft and, more briefly, as managing director at the Federal Communications Commission.

The news that he would remain at the White House came in a humorous tweet to Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms CIO Rick Holgate...