
President-elect Donald Trump before Christmas said he would nominate an investor, executive, and adviser to different startup companies, including the disruptive ridesharing company Uber Technologies [UBER] and space company SpaceX, to lead the Defense Department’s research and engineering (R&E) office. Emil Michael, 52, was chief business officer of Uber from 2013 until 2017, helping the company raise nearly $20 billion in investment capital, leading the merger of its operations in China with the country’s ride-hailing and bike-sharing company Didi Chiuxing,…