Eric E. Schmidt

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name = Eric Schmidt


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occupation = Chairman and CEO of Google Inc
Director of Apple Inc.
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networth = profit $6.6 billion USD (2008) [ [http://www.mydanwei.com/detail.php?person_pid=f0936c6a1e4f8488295db2d9a3645397&type=person&tab=2 Eric Schmidt Stock Trade Record] ] [ [http://www.mydanwei.com/detail.php?org_oid=49f9f04e17e64d2652dc06384adf3d83&type=org&tab=1 Google Inc. Executive Compensation] ]
website = [http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#eric Google Inc. Profile]

Eric Emerson Schmidt (born birth date |1955|4|27Fact|date=March 2008 in Washington, D.C.) is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc. and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. [ [http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/aug/29bod.html apple.com] ] He also sits on the Princeton University Board of Trustees. [ [http://www.princeton.edu/~vp/trustees/Trustee&photo.html princeton.edu] ] He lives in Atherton, California with his wife Wendy. ["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." [http://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/1999/1999_10_06.loose06.html "LOOSE ENDS"] ]

Education

After graduating from Yorktown High School (Virginia), [Citation
last = McCaffrey
first = Scott
title = New Inductees Named to Yorktown Hall of Fame
newspaper = Sun Gazette
year = 2008
date = 15 May 2008
url = http://www.sungazette.net/articles/2008/05/15/arlington/news/nws92a.txt ] Schmidt attended Princeton University where he earned a BSEE in 1976. [cite news
last = Wolff
first = Josephine
title = University Library joins Google Book Search
work = The Daily Princetonian
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date = 2007-02-06
url = http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/02/06/news/17198.shtml
accessdate = 2008-05-28 ] At the University of California, Berkeley, he earned an MS in 1979, for designing and implementing a network linking the campus computer center, the CS and the EECS departments, [Citation
first = Schmidt
last = Eric
title = The Berkeley Network - A Retrospective
url = http://www.krsaborio.net/research/acrobat/1980s/8002_bsd.pdf ] [Citation
first = Schmidt
last = Eric
title = An Introduction to the Berkeley Network
url = http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=an.introduction.to.the.berkeley.network%20schmidt&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws ] and a PhD in 1982 in EECS with a dissertation about the problems of managing distributed software development and tools for solving these problems. [cite paper
first = E. E.
last = Schmidt
author = Eric Schmidt
title = Controlling large software development in a distributed environment
publisher = U.C. Berkeley EECS Technical Reports
date = 1982
url = http://md1.csa.com/partners/viewrecord.php?requester=gs&collection=TRD&recid=0788297CI&q=&uid=792371362&setcookie=yes
accessdate = ] He was joint author of "lex" (a lexical analyzer and an important tool for compiler construction).He taught at Stanford Business School as a part time professor.Fact|date=May 2008

Previous and current work

Early in his career, Schmidt held a series of technical positions with IT 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 by Cambridge Technology Partners. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin (with the assistance of executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, Inc.) interviewed Schmidt; impressed by him, ["CEO Eric Schmidt stood out because he "was the only candidate who had been to Burning Man."" From [http://askpang.typepad.com/relevant_history/2003/04/markoff_and_zac.html "Markoff and Zachary on Google"] ; being quoted in the quote are John Markoff and Gregg Zachary. See also "Business Week"'s [http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_39/b3851606.htm "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."] they 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,cite web |url=http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312504142742/ds1a.htm |title=Amendment No. 9 to Form S-1 Registration Statement Under The Securities Act of 1933 |publisher=United States Securities and Exchange Commission |date=2004-08-18] 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."cite web |url=http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#eric |title=Google Management: Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer |publisher=Google Inc. |accessdate=2006-12-01]

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." cite web|url=http://news.com.com/2102-1032_3-5787483.html|title=Google balances privacy, reach|accessdate=2006-11-15|last=Mills|first=Elinor|date=Wed Aug 03 05:20:30 PDT 2005|year=2005|month=August|format=HTML|publisher=CNET|language=English|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050815014210sh_re_/news.com.com/2102-1032_3-5787483.html|archivedate=2005] 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 earned a salary of $1 in 2006. [cite web
url = http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/08/technology/google_salary/index.htm
title = Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin agree to a $1 salary according to company's latest proxy
accessdate = 2008-02-03]

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.Null, Christopher. " [http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129301-page,1/article.html# The 50 Most Important People on the Web] ." "PC World." March 5, 2007. Retrieved on March 5, 2007.] He is also on the list of ARTnews 200 top art collectors. [ARTnews, The ARTnews 200 Top Collectors, 2007 [http://www.artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2311] ]

The Schmidt Family Foundation addresses issues of sustainability and the responsible use of natural resources. Wendy Schmidt, working with Hart Howerton, a San Francisco architectural firm that specializes in large-scale land use, has inaugurated several projects on the island of Nantucket that seek to sustain the unique character of the island, and to minimize the impact of seasonal visitation on the island's core community.

ee also

* List of billionaires
* 70/20/10 Model — business model pioneered by Schmidt. [ [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/12/01/8364616/index.htm The 70 Percent Solution - December 1, 2005 ] ]

References

External links

* YouTube: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug7wQak2zQ0&mode=user&search= Eric Schmidt at the Seoul Digital Forum.] (2007.06.05) Video
* iTunes: [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=174478070&s=143444&i=10669756 Google making of a modern company.] Video
* CNET: [http://news.com.com/2102-1032_3-5787483.html?tag=st.util.print Google balances privacy, reach] (July 14, 2005), which uses Schmidt as an example of the personal information held by Google.
* AlwaysOn: [http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=325_0_1_0_C Interview] (April 22, 2003), in which he discusses the future of computing, and mankind
* [http://www.btbigthinkers.bt.com/google.html 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
* [http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?author=150 Eric Schmidt and Larry Page speaking at Stanford] (May 1, 2002)
* [http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/aug/29bod.html Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt Joins Apple's Board of Directors] Press release by Apple Inc.
* [http://www.princeton.edu/~vp/trustees/Trustee_photo-04-05.html Princeton University Board of Trustees]
* [http://iinnovate.blogspot.com/2007/03/eric-schmidt-ceo-of-google.html Eric Schmidt interview by iinnovate]
* [http://www.executivetalks.com/exe008.html Eric Schmidt talks about innovation on Executive Talks]
* [http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1997-03/sunflash.970318.23634.xml Schmidt appointed Novell CEO]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHF83ROalOo Eric Schmidt speaks as part of NASA 50 years Lecture Series]

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NAME=Eric Schmidt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Eric Emerson Schmidt
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Entrepreneur, CEO of Google
DATE OF BIRTH=April 27, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH=Washington, D.C., United States
DATE OF DEATH=
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