Eric Schmidt 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 world, with an estimated wealth of US$11.1 billion. As an intern at Bell Labs, Schmidt did a complete re-write of Lex, a software program to generate lexical analysers for the UNIX computer operating system. From 1997 to 2001, he was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Novell. From 2001 to 2011, Schmidt served
Daniel Hesse AT&T's long distance services. In May 1997, he became Chief Executive Officer of AT&T Wireless. In 1998, Hesse oversaw the launch of AT&T's Digital One Rate. From March 2000 to June 2004, Hesse served as CEO and chairman of Terabeam Corporation. In June 2005, Hesse joined Sprint and oversaw the spinoff of its landline division into a separate public company– Embarq Corporation. Hesse served as the President and CEO of Embarq from May 2006 until December 2007. On December 17, 2007 he became CEO of Sprint Nextel. During his tenure, Hesse appeared in ten television commercials for the company. The