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) Jeff Jacobson (CEO) Jeff Jacobson is the former CEO of Xerox Corporation. Jacobson succeeded Ursula M. Burns as Xerox CEO on January 1, 2017. Prior to this, Jacobson had served as an officer of Xerox since February 2012. He joined as president of Global Graphic Communications Operations. Later in 2014 he became the chief operating officer of the Xerox Technology business. On May 1, 2018, Xerox announced that Jacobson would resign as chief executive and director, under a deal with dissident investor Carl Icahn. Three days later, on May 4, 2018, the company announced that the deal would not go