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.
A rep for Google confirmed to Mashable that Hannon has left the company. A source familiar with the Clinton campaign confirmed the hire.
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.
Clinton has yet to formally announce a run for office, but multiple reports last week said she had opened her new campaign headquarters in Brooklyn. If Clinton's campaign has indeed signed a lease, she would need to declare her candidacy within just 15 days, per Federal Election Commission rules.
The relationship between Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. has grown increasingly incestuous in recent years. Former Obama officials like Jay Carney and David Plouffe recently joined Amazon and Uber, respectively. Likewise, early Twitter employee Jason Goldman and Facebook engineering manager director David Recordon recently joined the Obama administration.