Eric E. Schmidt
Eric Schmidt
Born
April 27, 1955 (1955-04-27)
Alma mater Princeton University
University of California,
Berkeley
Occupation Chairman and CEO of Google
Inc
Director of Apple Inc.
Salary
$1,000,000
Net worth
▼ $6.6 billion USD (2008)[1][2]
Website
Google Inc. Profile
Eric Emerson Schmidt
(born April 27,
1955(1955-04-27)[3] in Washington, D.C.) is
Chairman and CEO of Google Inc. and a
member of the Board of Directors of Apple
Inc.[4] He also sits on the Board of Trustees
for Carnegie Mellon University[5] and Prin-
ceton University[6]. He lives in Atherton, Cali-
fornia with his wife Wendy.[7]
Education
After graduating from Yorktown High School
(Virginia),[8] Schmidt attended Princeton
University where he earned a BSEE in
1976.[9] At the University of California,
Berkeley, he earned an MS in 1979, for
designing and implementing a network link-
ing the campus computer center, the CS and
the EECS departments,[10][11] and a PhD in
1982 in EECS with a dissertation about the
problems of managing distributed software
development and tools for solving these prob-
lems.[12] He was joint author of lex (a lexical
analyzer and an important tool for compiler
construction). He taught at Stanford Busi-
ness School as a part time professor.[13]
Previous and current
work
Early in his career, Schmidt held a series of
technical positions with IT companies, includ-
ing Bell Labs, Zilog and Xerox’s famed Palo
Alto Research Center (PARC). He joined Sun
Microsystems in 1983, led its Java develop-
ment efforts and rose to become Chief Tech-
nology Officer. In 1997, he was appointed
CEO of Novell.
Schmidt left Novell after the acquisition of
Cambridge Technology Partners. Google
founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin (with
the assistance of executive search firm Heid-
rick & Struggles, Inc.) interviewed Schmidt.
Impressed by him,[14] they recruited Eric
Schmidt to run their company in 2001 under
the influence of venture capitalists John Do-
err and Michael Moritz.
Schmidt joined Google’s board of directors
as chairman in March