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
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