Wendy Schmidt Wendy Schmidt Wendy Schmidt (born Wendy Susan Boyle; 1955) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the wife of Eric Schmidt, the former Executive Chairman of Google, whom she met in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the president of the Schmidt Family Foundation. She was born in 1955 in Orange, New Jersey. Her parents owned an interior design firm, Boyle Design Associates. She graduated from Smith College in 1977 and attended graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. While there, she met Eric Schmidt, then a doctoral student in computer science, and
Daniel Hesse AT&T's long distance services. In May 1997, he became Chief Executive Officer of AT&T Wireless. In 1998, Hesse oversaw the launch of AT&T's Digital One Rate. From March 2000 to June 2004, Hesse served as CEO and chairman of Terabeam Corporation. In June 2005, Hesse joined Sprint and oversaw the spinoff of its landline division into a separate public company– Embarq Corporation. Hesse served as the President and CEO of Embarq from May 2006 until December 2007. On December 17, 2007 he became CEO of Sprint Nextel. During his tenure, Hesse appeared in ten television commercials for the company. The