Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27) is the chairman and former CEO of Google . He worked at Novell and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. The other key figures at Google are Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin hired Eric Schmidt, then president and CEO of Novell, where he led the technology , management, and strategic planning to sustain Google's rapid growth and ensure high quality was maintained despite reduced product development cycle times. Along with Larry and Sergey, Eric shares responsibility for the day-to-day operations and needs of Google as a rapidly growing search
Before joining Novell, Eric was Chief Technology Officer and Corporate CEO at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he led the development of Java, Sun's platform-independent programming technology, and defined the strategy for internet software. Prior to joining Sun in 1983, he was a member of the research team at the Computer at Xerox and held positions at Bell Labs and Zilog.
Eric holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, and a master's and doctorate in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Schmidt was elected to Apple's board of directors on August 28, 2006. On August 3, 2009, it was announced that he would resign from Apple's board of directors due to conflicts of interest, amidst growing competition between Google and Apple.



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