Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt will leave Alphabet’s board
Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American businessman and software engineer. He is known for being the Chairman of Google from 2001 to 2011, Executive Chairman of Google from 2011 to 2015 and executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017
Eric Schmidt will depart Alphabet’s board this June, after holding a seat for 18 years.
His departure comes just over a year after Schmidt stepped down from his role as Alphabet’s executive chairman
Schmidt has been a key presence at Google during his time with the company. H
e initially took a board seat in 2001, when he was made CEO of Google a role he was given essentially to lend business expertise to what company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin had been building.
In 2011, he left the CEO position and become Google’s executive chairman.
At the beginning of 2018, he stepped down from that role and became a regular board member.
Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American businessman and software engineer. He is known for being the Chairman of Google from 2001 to 2011, Executive Chairman of Google from 2011 to 2015 and executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017
Eric Schmidt will depart Alphabet’s board this June, after holding a seat for 18 years.
His departure comes just over a year after Schmidt stepped down from his role as Alphabet’s executive chairman
Schmidt has been a key presence at Google during his time with the company. H
e initially took a board seat in 2001, when he was made CEO of Google a role he was given essentially to lend business expertise to what company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin had been building.
In 2011, he left the CEO position and become Google’s executive chairman.
At the beginning of 2018, he stepped down from that role and became a regular board member.
