The CTO should work with tech companies already promoting this idea to convince Congress to increase the number of H1B visas available annually for highly skilled foreigners. These individuals are coming to the U.S. for college, but are leaving because the government won't give them visas to stay and work at our high tech companies. American competitiveness was built with the help of highly-skilled foreigners (Einstein!), and now we're losing that edge because of backward immigration policies.