Hillary Clinton hires Google exec to be her campaign CTO

Hillary Clinton is betting that if Stephanie Hannon can handle natural disasters, she can certainly handle a controversial presidential campaign

Hannon, Google's director or product management, has left the Internet giant to take over as the chief technology officer for Clinton's still unannounced presidential campaign, according to reports from The Washington Post and Reuters

A rep for Google confirmed to Mashable that Hannon has left the company

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During her two years at Google, Hannon focused on civic innovation issues, with an eye toward providing actionable data to cities and helping people better respond to natural disasters. Before that she worked as a product manager at Facebook. Read more...

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