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
Nicole Seligman 2003, she became Corporate Executive Officer of the worldwide Sony Corporation. When Stringer became Sony Corporation CEO in June 2005, Seligman rose to become General Counsel of that corporation, retaining the same role at SCA. She became President of Sony Corporation of America on June 27, 2012. In August 2013, the Council on CyberSecurity announced that Seligman is a member of the organization’s Advisory Board. On February 18, 2016, it was announced, that Seligman is stepping down from the positions of President of Sony Entertainment and Sony Corporation of America; In an internal memo to employees, it was stated, that