Eric Schmidt as the CEO of Google. He has served on various other boards in academia and industry, including the Boards of Trustees for Carnegie Mellon University, Apple, Princeton University, and Mayo Clinic. Schmidt was born in Falls Church, Virginia, and grew up in Falls Church and Blacksburg, Virginia. He is one of three sons of Eleanor, who had a master's degree in psychology, and Wilson Emerson Schmidt, a professor of international economics at Virginia Tech and Johns Hopkins University, who worked at the U.S. Treasury Department during the Nixon Administration. Schmidt spent part of his childhood in Italy as a result
Oliver Schmidt (engineer) Oliver Schmidt (engineer) Oliver Schmidt (born 1969) is an engineer and former Volkswagen AG executive, who in 2017 was sentenced to seven years of prison due to his involvement in the Volkswagen emissions scandal. After studying mechanical engineering in Hannover, Schmidt was employed by Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg. At the age of 35 Schmidt was transferred to the USA, where he from 2012 oversaw VW's emissions office in Michigan. In January 2017 while returning to Germany from a vacation Schmidt was arrested in Florida, charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States in the Volkswagen emissions scandal. In December a