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* Schmidt gave $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee in 2000, $25,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2004, as well as maximum $2,000 contributions to 2004 Democratic presidential candidates Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, Gov. Howard Dean and Representative Richard Gephardt.<ref>"[http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54754 "Google's 'evil' agenda exposed in new book"]</ref>
* Schmidt gave $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee in 2000, $25,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2004, as well as maximum $2,000 contributions to 2004 Democratic presidential candidates Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, Gov. Howard Dean and Representative Richard Gephardt.<ref>"[http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54754 "Google's 'evil' agenda exposed in new book"]</ref>
* Earned a salary of $1 in 2006 with a holiday bonus of $1,723.<ref>"Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin agree to a $1 salary according to company's latest proxy." from [http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/08/technology/google_salary/index.htm]</ref>
* Earned a salary of $1 in 2006 with a holiday bonus of $1,723.<ref>"Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin agree to a $1 salary according to company's latest proxy." from [http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/08/technology/google_salary/index.htm]</ref>
* Schmidt's nephew is a junior at Johns Hopkins University and has been the starting 197 pound wrestler for two years.

==See also==
==See also==
* [[Google|Google Inc.]]
* [[Google|Google Inc.]]

Revision as of 14:52, 25 June 2007

Eric Schmidt
BornApril 27[citation needed], 1955
Occupation(s)Chief Executive Officer of Google Inc
Board of Directors of Apple Inc.
WebsiteGoogle Inc. Profile

Eric Emerson Schmidt, Ph.D (b. 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc.[1] He also sits on the Princeton University Board of Trustees.[2] He lives in Atherton, California with his wife Wendy.[3]

Education

Dr Schmidt obtained a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University and an 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.

Dr Schmidt also teaches at Stanford University as a part time professor of business.

Career

Schmidt was a member of the research staff at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and held positions at Bell Laboratories and Zilog. In 1983, Schmidt joined Sun Microsystems as software manager. At Sun he led the development of Java, Sun's platform-independent programming technology, and defined Sun's Internet software strategy. He later became chief technology officer and corporate executive officer. From 1997 to 2001, Schmidt was 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,[4] 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."[5]

Schmidt is one of the few people who have become a billionaire (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."[6] 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 $6.2billion.

Schmidt was selected to Apple's board of directors on August 28, 2006.

In 2007, he 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.[7]

Trivia

  • Schmidt has visited Burning Man.[8]
  • He is a hobbyist aviator.[9]
  • Schmidt gave $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee in 2000, $25,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2004, as well as maximum $2,000 contributions to 2004 Democratic presidential candidates Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, Gov. Howard Dean and Representative Richard Gephardt.[10]
  • Earned a salary of $1 in 2006 with a holiday bonus of $1,723.[11]
  • Schmidt's nephew is a junior at Johns Hopkins University and has been the starting 197 pound wrestler for two years.

See also

References

  1. ^ apple.com
  2. ^ princeton.edu
  3. ^ "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"
  4. ^ "Amendment No. 9 to Form S-1 Registration Statement Under The [[Securities Act of 1933]]". United States Securities and Exchange Commission. 2004-08-18. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  5. ^ "Google Management: Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer". Google Inc. Retrieved 2006-12-01.
  6. ^ Mills, Elinor (Wed Aug 03 05:20:30 PDT 2005). "Google balances privacy, reach". CNET. Archived from the original (HTML) on 2005. Retrieved 2006-11-15. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= and |archivedate= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  7. ^ Null, Christopher. "The 50 Most Important People on the Web." PC World. March 5, 2007. Retrieved on March 5, 2007.
  8. ^ "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."
  9. ^ "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"
  10. ^ ""Google's 'evil' agenda exposed in new book"
  11. ^ "Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin agree to a $1 salary according to company's latest proxy." from [1]
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