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
Kaz Hirai Hirai became chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment on September 1, 2011 and was replaced by Andrew House as president and group CEO. He retired as chairman of SCEI on June 25, 2012 but remains on the board of directors. On April 1, 2011, Hirai was promoted to representative corporate executive officer and executive deputy president of Sony Corporation. He oversaw the Consumer Products & Services Group. Hirai was speculated to become the successor to Howard Stringer, the current sitting president and CEO of Sony Corporation, who was then expected to step down in 2013. On February 1, 2012, Sony announced