Wendy Schmidt Wendy Schmidt Wendy Schmidt (born Wendy Susan Boyle; 1955) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the wife of Eric Schmidt, the former Executive Chairman of Google, whom she met in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the president of the Schmidt Family Foundation. She was born in 1955 in Orange, New Jersey. Her parents owned an interior design firm, Boyle Design Associates. She graduated from Smith College in 1977 and attended graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. While there, she met Eric Schmidt, then a doctoral student in computer science, and
Martin E. Franklin Franklin served as its CEO. He was the youngest CEO of a corporation listed on the NYSE. They sold the company to Essilor for US$300 million in 1996. Franklin attempted to acquire the Alltristra Corporation with Ian Ashken in 2000. When their bid failed, they became activist boards members. By 2001, Franklin became its CEO while Ashken became its chief financial officer. Meanwhile, the two men renamed it the Jarden Corporation. Franklin served as its chairman and chief executive from 2001 to 2011. Since 2011, he has served as its executive chairman. As executive chairman of Jarden, Franklin earned US$44