WASHINGTON DC: The Transition Team of US President-elect Barack Obama have announced Indian-American Sonal Shah, head of the philanthropic arm of Internet giant Google, as part of a three-person team to coordinate technology, innovation and government reform during the transition.

The other two in the team are media strategist Blair Levin and Julius Genachowski, former chief counsel to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said the President-elect's transition website.

"The policy working group on Technology, Innovation and Government Reform will develop... Proposals and plans from the Obama Campaign for action during the Obama-Biden Administration," according to the website.

Sonal Shah leads works for Google.org on their Global Development team, where she is working on defining their global development strategy.

Prior to this she was vice president at Goldman, Sachs and Co. and developed and implemented the firm's environmental strategy.

She is also the co-founder of Indicorps, a U.S.-based non-profit organization offering one-year fellowships for Americans of Indian origin to work on specific development projects in India.

Sonal worked at the Department of Treasury from 1995-2002 on various economic issues and is on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board.

The naming of Shah in the panel to oversee Technology, Innovation and Government reform comes amidst speculations about the person to adorn the post of Chief Technology Officer in the Obama administration.

The Transition Team has also announced leaders for a series of Policy Working Groups for the Presidential Transition.