Jessica Guynn

USA TODAY

SAN FRANCISCO — Billionaire Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel has agreed to join Donald J. Trump's presidential transition team, according to a published report.



Multiple sources told former Fortune magazine reporter Dan Primack that Thiel, a Facebook board member who was a Trump delegate and spoke at the Republican National Convention, would join the team. They did not comment on an earlier Huffington Post report that he would lead it, replacing Chris Christie, wrote Primack in a LinkedIn post.



A Thiel spokesman could not be reached for comment.

Thiel had suggested he would informally advise Trump. "A page in the book of history has turned, and there is an opening to think about some of our problems from a new perspective," Thiel told the New York Times in an interview this week. "I’ll try to help the president in any way I can."

Thiel was the only prominent business person from the tech sector to publicly support Trump. That support made him a controversial figure in Silicon Valley.