Eric Schmidt of Novell. He presided over a period of decline at Novell where its IPX protocol was being replaced by open TCP/IP products, while at the same time Microsoft was shipping free TCP/IP stacks in Windows 95, making Novell much less profitable. In 2001, he departed after the acquisition of Cambridge Technology Partners. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin interviewed Schmidt. Impressed by him, they recruited Schmidt to run their company in 2001 under the guidance of venture capitalists John Doerr and Michael Moritz. In March 2001, Schmidt joined Google's board of directors as chairman, and became the company's CEO
Carsten Kengeter was reassigned to oversee the winding down of non-core businesses. He resigned from UBS in February 2013. He became a visiting professor in the Department of Finance at his alma mater, the London School of Economics. In October 2017, it was announced Kengeter would be stepping down as CEO of Deutsche Börse. He has been CEO since June 2015 and member of the Executive Board since April 2015. He is a board member of several international organisations such as the China Europe International Exchange AG and b-to-v Partners AG. Additionally he is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Circuitous Capital