Eric E. Schmidt
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| Eric Schmidt | |
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| Image:Eric E Schmidt, 2005 (looking left).jpg | |
| Born | April 27 1955 |
| Occupation | Chairman and CEO of Google Inc Board of Directors of Apple Inc. |
| Net worth | Image:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg $6.2 billion USD (2006)[1][2] |
| Website | Google Inc. Profile |
Eric Emerson Schmidt (b. 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc.[3] He also sits on the Princeton University Board of Trustees.[4] He lives in Atherton, California with his wife Wendy.[5]
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[edit] Education
After graduating from Yorktown High School (Virginia), Schmidt attended Princeton University where he earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering. He has also obtained a MS in 1979 and a PhD in 1982 in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley. He was joint author of lex, a lexical parser and an important tool for compiler construction and taught at Stanford Business School as a part time professor.
[edit] Previous and current work
Early in his career, Schmidt held a series of technical positions with ICT companies, including Bell Labs, Zilog and Xerox’s famed Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He joined Sun Microsystems in 1983, led its Java development efforts and rose to become Chief Technology 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 Heidrick & Struggles, Inc.) recruited Eric Schmidt to run their company in 2001 under the influence of venture capitalists John Doerr and Michael Moritz.
Schmidt joined Google's board of directors as chairman in March 2001 and became the company's CEO in August 2001. At Google, Schmidt shares responsibility for Google's daily operations with founders Page and Brin. As indicated by page 29 of Google's 2004 S-1 Filing,[6] Schmidt, Page, and Brin run Google as a triumvirate. Schmidt possesses the legal responsibilities typically assigned to the CEO of a public company and focuses on management of the vice presidents and the sales organization.
According to Google's website, Schmidt also focuses on "building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google's rapid growth as a company and on ensuring that quality remains high while product development cycle times are kept to a minimum."[7]
Schmidt is one of the few people who have become billionaires (USD) based on stock options received as an employee in a corporation of which neither he nor a relative was the founder. "Earlier this year, he pulled in almost $90 million from sales of Google stock and made at least another $50 million selling shares in the past two months as the stock leaped to more than $300 a share."[8] In its 2006 'World's Richest People' list, Forbes ranked Schmidt as the 129th richest person in the world (the ranking was shared by Onsi Sawiris, Alexei Kuzmichov, and Robert Rowling) with an estimated wealth of $6.2 billion.
Schmidt was elected to Apple's board of directors on August 28, 2006.
In 2007, Schmidt was cited by PC World as #1 on the list of the 50 Most Important People on the Web, along with Google co-Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.[9] He is also on the list of ARTnews 200 top art collectors. [10]
[edit] Miscellaneous facts
- Schmidt has visited Burning Man.[11]
- He is a hobbyist aviator.[12]
- Earned a salary of $1 in 2006.[13]
[edit] See also
- List of billionaires
- 70/20/10 Model — business model pioneered by Schmidt.
- 1962 Cartoon character named Google by Tim Horsley. Other version by brother Sherman.Cin.,OH
[edit] References
- ^ Eric Schmidt Stock Trade Record
- ^ Google Inc. Executive Compensation
- ^ apple.com
- ^ princeton.edu
- ^ "Taylor Eigsti, a 15-year-old jazz pianist featured on the August 4 cover of the Almanac, performed for President Clinton Friday night at the Atherton home of Novell CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy." "LOOSE ENDS"
- ^ Amendment No. 9 to Form S-1 Registration Statement Under The Securities Act of 1933. United States Securities and Exchange Commission (2004-08-18).
- ^ Google Management: Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer. Google Inc.. Retrieved on 2006-12-01.
- ^ Mills, Elinor (Wed Aug 03 05:20:30 PDT 2005). Google balances privacy, reach (HTML) (English). CNET. Archived from the original on 2005. Retrieved on 2006-11-15.
- ^ Null, Christopher. "The 50 Most Important People on the Web." PC World. March 5, 2007. Retrieved on March 5, 2007.
- ^ ARTnews, The ARTnews 200 Top Collectors, 2007 [1]
- ^ "CEO Eric Schmidt stood out because he "was the only candidate who had been to Burning Man."" From "Markoff and Zachary on Google"; being quoted in the quote are John Markoff and Gregg Zachary. See also Business Week's "Eric Schmidt, Google" from 29 September, 2003: "One of the first orders of business was joining his new 20-something colleagues at Burning Man, a free-form festival of artistic self-expression held in a Nevada desert lake bed. Sitting in his office shortly after his return, tanned and slightly weary, Schmidt couldn't have been happier. "They're keeping me young," he declared."
- ^ "Schmidt is an avid pilot and political junkie who never tires of debating the great issues of our day and the relative merits of small plane jet propulsion systems." from "Unwinnable Wars: Personal Perspectives on Technology Leadership"
- ^ "Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin agree to a $1 salary according to company's latest proxy." from [2]
[edit] External links
- YouTube: Eric Schmidt at the Seoul Digital Forum. (2007.06.05) Video
- iTunes: Google making of a modern company. Video
- CNET: Google balances privacy, reach (July 14, 2005), which uses Schmidt as an example of the personal information held by Google.
- AlwaysOn: Interview (April 22, 2003), in which he discusses the future of computing, and mankind
- Eric Schmidt in discussion with Esther Dyson on BT Big Thinkers (September 25, 2006), where he talks about how he is carefully managing Google through many challenges
- Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt Joins Apple's Board of Directors Press release by Apple Inc.
- Princeton University Board of Trustees
- Eric Schmidt interview by iinnovate
- Eric Schmidt talks about innovation on Executive Talks
- Schmidt appointed Novell CEO
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