Eric Schmidt as the CEO of Google. He has served on various other boards in academia and industry, including the Boards of Trustees for Carnegie Mellon University, Apple, Princeton University, and Mayo Clinic. Schmidt was born in Falls Church, Virginia, and grew up in Falls Church and Blacksburg, Virginia. He is one of three sons of Eleanor, who had a master's degree in psychology, and Wilson Emerson Schmidt, a professor of international economics at Virginia Tech and Johns Hopkins University, who worked at the U.S. Treasury Department during the Nixon Administration. Schmidt spent part of his childhood in Italy as a result
Daniel Hesse AT&T's long distance services. In May 1997, he became Chief Executive Officer of AT&T Wireless. In 1998, Hesse oversaw the launch of AT&T's Digital One Rate. From March 2000 to June 2004, Hesse served as CEO and chairman of Terabeam Corporation. In June 2005, Hesse joined Sprint and oversaw the spinoff of its landline division into a separate public company– Embarq Corporation. Hesse served as the President and CEO of Embarq from May 2006 until December 2007. On December 17, 2007 he became CEO of Sprint Nextel. During his tenure, Hesse appeared in ten television commercials for the company. The