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.
While at Sun Microsystems, Eric Schmidt
was interviewed by Fast Company, a Silicon
Valley News Agency. During the interview,
Eric Schmidt indicated he believed that "sex"
oriented businesses were the future of the in-
ternet and computing
industry. Several
months after these interviews were pub-
lished, Schmidt was recruited by Novell to
the CEO position. One notable excerpt from
these interviews:
...Eric Schmidt, Sun’s chief tech