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
Carsten Kengeter was reassigned to oversee the winding down of non-core businesses. He resigned from UBS in February 2013. He became a visiting professor in the Department of Finance at his alma mater, the London School of Economics. In October 2017, it was announced Kengeter would be stepping down as CEO of Deutsche Börse. He has been CEO since June 2015 and member of the Executive Board since April 2015. He is a board member of several international organisations such as the China Europe International Exchange AG and b-to-v Partners AG. Additionally he is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Circuitous Capital