Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt ( * April 27, 1955 in Washington, DC) is an American computer scientist and manager since April 2011 Executive Chairman ( formerly Chief Executive Officer ) of Google and belongs since 2009 to the consultant team of U.S. President Barack Obama on questions of technology. He also teaches at Stanford University.
Between 1983 and 1997, Schmidt worked at Sun Microsystems, where he stated, among other things, the function of CTOs, was between 1997 and 2001 CEO of Novell from 2006 to 2009 Member of the Board of Directors of Apple.
Career
Eric Emerson Schmidt was in Washington, D.C.; according to other sources in Falls Church, Virginia as one of three children of psychologist Eleanor and the German -American business professor Wilson Schmidt, who taught at Johns Hopkins University, was born. He grew up in Blacksburg, Virginia, Falls Church, Virginia.
Eric Schmidt holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and a master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. As an intern at Bell Laboratories in 1976, he wrote a new version of Lex
Earlier in his career he was a member of the research department at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center ( PARC ), and also worked at Bell Laboratories and Zilog at. In 1983 he went to Sun Microsystems, where he was Head of the Technical Department and CTO. In 1997 he went to Novell, where he held the post of the CEO. Following the acquisition of Cambridge Technology Partners, Novell, he left the company in June 2001.
Since joining Google in 2001, Schmidt care as Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer ( the company says ) " to build up the company's infrastructure in order to continue the rapid growth of Google can, and to ensure a consistently high quality with short product development cycles as possible. " Together with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, he is responsible for the ongoing operations, and also has nearly ten percent of the voting rights.
2006 Schmidt was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which paid tribute to his work on " the development of strategies for the world's most successful companies for Internet search engines ".
In 2008, he supported Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential election campaign. The offer as a special representative for the technology industry ( Chief Technical Officer ) to work in the government team, he refused by pointing to his current job at Google.
From August 2006 to August 2009 Schmidt was a member of the Board of Directors of Apple. He had to give up this position was because the interests of the companies Google and Apple increasingly overlapped and thus no longer ensures impartiality Schmidt.
In the Forbes list of the richest people in the world in 2010 Schmidt took the 117th place with an estimated fortune of $ 6.3 billion ( 4.6 billion EUR ). In the Forbes list of the richest people in the world in 2013 Schmidt took the 49th place with an estimated fortune of $ 8.3 billion ( 5.9 billion EUR ).
He currently lives with his wife Wendy in Atherton ( Calif.) in the immediate vicinity of the Google headquarters in Mountain View.
For April 4, 2011 Schmidt joined Google 's board of directors.
Interviews
- Openness is my religion. Interview of Eric Schmidt with Joachim Müller -Jung and Holger Schmidt, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 9, 2010, page 31 ( feature )
It is famous Schmidt's testimony from an interview on CNBC: "If there is something that you do not want it learns someone, you should perhaps do not anyway. "