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
Thomas Holmes (executive) Thomas Holmes (executive) Thomas Holmes is an American executive. Holmes was born in Wilmington, Massachusetts, where his father, John Thomas Holmes, was chairman of the Board of Selectmen. Holmes' father died when Thomas was 10 years old. Holmes graduated from Wilmington High School in 1941. Holmes served as a naval pilot in the Pacific Theatre in World War II. He then attended the University of Missouri–Rolla (UMR) with the help of the G.I. Bill. He majored in mining engineering. He went on to work for Ingersoll Rand for 30 years, eventually becoming CEO in 1980, stepping down in 1988. In