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
Eric C. Wiseman the Greensboro Science Center, which "marks the single largest private gift to the center in the history of the 57-year-old organization." Eric C. Wiseman Eric C. Wiseman (born 1955) is a businessperson in the apparel industry. Wiseman was president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board (since 2008) of VF Corporation, replaced by Steve Rendle as CEO on January 1, 2017 while remaining as chairman. He is on the board of directors of Lowe's Companies Inc., CIGNA Corporation, and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA). Wiseman has a Bachelor's Degree in business and an MBA from Wake Forest University.