Larry Page using Android software and, by 2010, 17.2% of the handset market consisted of Android sales, overtaking Apple for the first time. Android became the world's most popular mobile operating system shortly afterward. Following a January 2011 announcement, Page officially became the chief executive of Google on April 4, 2011, while Schmidt stepped down to become executive chairman. By this time, Google had over $180 billion market capitalization and more than 24,000 employees. After Schmidt announced the end of his tenure as CEO on January 20, 2011, he jokingly tweeted on Twitter: "Adult-supervision no longer needed." Quartz organizational management reporter, Max
Dalton Philips welcomed the decision by chairman Sir Ian Gibson to leave the business next year after months of pressure. In January 2015 it was announced that Philips would be stepping down as CEO. Philips, as well as being chairman of Byron, and of The Ridgeon Group, is currently a Senior Advisor with The Boston Consulting Group, and is a Non-Executive Director of three other boards: industrial plastic group One51 Plc., the UK High Street retailer Wilko, and the Social Innovation Fund, a provider of growth capital to Irish social enterprises. Dalton Philips Timothy David Dalton Philips (born 18 February 1968) is