- No1. on the MEDIA 100
- Powerful man
- Dr. Eric Schmidt joined Google as chairman of board and chief executive officer in 2001.
-Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin recruited Eric Schmidt
- Eric Schmidt from Novell, where he led Google's strategic planning, management and technology development as chairman and CEO.
-Eric shares responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations.
-Since coming to Google, Eric has focused 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.
- Eric's Novell experience culminated a 20-year record of achievement as an Internet strategist, entrepreneur and developer of great technologies.
Other Info-
- Born April 27 1955
- Schmidt as the 129th richest person in the world
- Worth approx 6.2 Billion USD
-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.
History + Qualifications
Prior to his appointment at Novell, Eric was chief technology officer and corporate executive officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he led the development of Java, Sun's platform-independent programming technology, and defined Sun's Internet software strategy. Before joining Sun in 1983, he 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. Eric has a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and a master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California-Berkeley. In 2006, Eric was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which recognized his work on "the development of strategies for the world's most successful Internet search engine company."
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