Eric Schmidt home of Blacksburg, Virginia. This came on the heels of Schmidt making a two million dollar donation to Virginia Tech's College of Engineering. Schmidt’s philanthropy is the result of his long standing friendship with Virginia Tech's former president Paul Torgersen. His donation funded the Paul and Dorothea Torgersen Dean’s Chair in Engineering. Eric Schmidt Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and software engineer. He is known for being the Executive Chairman of Google from 2001 to 2015 and Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017. In 2017, "Forbes" ranked Schmidt as the 119th-richest person in the
Jeff Jacobson (CEO) into effect, and Jacobson would stay on as CEO. On May 13, 2018, Xerox announced that Jacobson would indeed be stepping down to be replaced by John Visentin. Jacobson also gave up a severance package worth up to $18M, by resigning voluntarily, in exchange for immunity from civil lawsuits over the failed Fujifilm deal. Jacobson graduated from the State University of New York Buffalo. He also has a master's degree in Industrial Relations from the Cornell University School of Industrial Relations. Jacobson also gained a juris doctor degree from Pace University School of Law and was admitted to the bar