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
Canopy Growth Corporation Canopy Growth Corporation Canopy Growth Corporation, formerly Tweed Marijuana Inc., is a cannabis company based in Smiths Falls, Ontario, founded by Bruce Linton in 2013, renamed Canopy Growth Corporation in 2015. As of late September 2018, Canopy was the world's largest cannabis company, based on the value of all shares, or market capitalization. A Carleton University grad, Bruce Linton took is Founder, Chairman and Co-CEO . Mark Zekulin is Co-CEO and President. The company was the first federally regulated, publicly traded cannabis producer in North America, traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange as "WEED". It began trading as "CGC" on