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
YouView 10 January 2018 called POP FUN. On 23 July 2010 Kip Meek was announced as the non-executive chairman of Project Canvas. Meek led the Board, and oversaw the appointment of Richard Halton as CEO from programme director. Meek stepped down from his full-time role at Ingenious Media and his non-executive positions at the Broadband Stakeholder Group and Phorm to take the job. As chair, Meek was paid £97,000 during his eight-month tenure. Meek left YouView on 7 March 2011, and was replaced by Alan Sugar with immediate effect, who was brought on board by Channel 5's Richard Desmond. The move