Eric Schmidt on its list of the 50 most important people on the Web, along with Google co-founders Page and Brin. Schmidt is one of a few people who became billionaires (in United States dollars) based on stock options received as employees in corporations of which they were neither the founders nor relatives of the founders. In its 2011 'World's Billionaires' list, "Forbes" ranked Schmidt as the 136th-richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $7 billion. On 20 January 2011, Google announced that Schmidt would step down as the CEO of Google but continue as the executive chairman of
Bruce Claflin In August 1998, he joined 3Com, a digital electronics manufacturer, as President and Chief Operating Officer. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer at 3Com from 2001 through 2006. In February 2006, he announced he would be stepping down as CEO of 3Com. From 2009 to 2016, he was the Executive Chairman of Advanced Micro Devices, an American multinational semiconductor company. In 2016, John Caldwell took over as chairman for AMD. He has served as Director of Ciena, a global supplier of telecommunications networking equipment, software, and services, since August 2006. Bruce Claflin Bruce Claflin is an American businessman