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
Stephen Thompson (football chairman) approach. The club was relegated to the Scottish Championship in 2016, after they finished last in the 2015–16 Scottish Premiership. Dundee United announced in January 2018 that Thompson would be stepping down as chairman at the end of the 2017–18 season. Thompson resigned in March 2018, and announced his intention to sell his shareholding in the club. Stephen Thompson (football chairman) Stephen Thompson (born 1965 or 1966) is a Scottish businessman, who was the chairman of Scottish football club Dundee United. He is the son of former United chairman Eddie Thompson, who died of prostate cancer in October 2008. Stephen