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 Von Schmidt Eric Von Schmidt Eric Von Schmidt (May 28, 1931 – February 2, 2007) was an American singer and guitarist, songwriter, painter and illustrator, and Grammy Award recipient. He was associated with the folk boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s and a key part of the Cambridge folk music scene. As a singer and guitarist, he was considered to be the leading Cambridge specialist in country blues at the time, thus the Cambridge analogue of Greenwich Village's Dave Van Ronk. Von Schmidt co-authored with Jim Rooney "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk