Eric Schmidt of Novell. He presided over a period of decline at Novell where its IPX protocol was being replaced by open TCP/IP products, while at the same time Microsoft was shipping free TCP/IP stacks in Windows 95, making Novell much less profitable. In 2001, he departed after the acquisition of Cambridge Technology Partners. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin interviewed Schmidt. Impressed by him, they recruited Schmidt to run their company in 2001 under the guidance of venture capitalists John Doerr and Michael Moritz. In March 2001, Schmidt joined Google's board of directors as chairman, and became the company's CEO
Kent Ertugrul Kent Ertugrul Kent Ertugrul was Interim Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Phorm Inc., a Delaware corporation. He resigned from the Phorm Corporation board on 15 July 2015. Ertugrul began his career in investment banking, working at J.P. Morgan, Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley in London, helping to develop and distribute Inflation Linked Floating Rate Securities. Later, as Director and Chief Financial Officer, he oversaw the growth of Compass Technology as it became a leading PC-based voice mail company in the US. In 1991, Compass merged with California-based Octel Communications, which in turn was