Eric Schmidt Google would avoid recruiting from. According to a court filing, another email exchange shows Google's human resources director asking Schmidt about sharing its no-cold call agreements with competitors. Schmidt responded that he preferred it be shared "verbally, since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later?" On 28 August 2006, Schmidt was elected to Apple Inc.'s board of directors, a position he held until August 2009. Schmidt sat on the boards of trustees of Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton University. He taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business in the 2000s. Schmidt serves
Dalton Philips welcomed the decision by chairman Sir Ian Gibson to leave the business next year after months of pressure. In January 2015 it was announced that Philips would be stepping down as CEO. Philips, as well as being chairman of Byron, and of The Ridgeon Group, is currently a Senior Advisor with The Boston Consulting Group, and is a Non-Executive Director of three other boards: industrial plastic group One51 Plc., the UK High Street retailer Wilko, and the Social Innovation Fund, a provider of growth capital to Irish social enterprises. Dalton Philips Timothy David Dalton Philips (born 18 February 1968) is