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
Bruce Claflin In August 1998, he joined 3Com, a digital electronics manufacturer, as President and Chief Operating Officer. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer at 3Com from 2001 through 2006. In February 2006, he announced he would be stepping down as CEO of 3Com. From 2009 to 2016, he was the Executive Chairman of Advanced Micro Devices, an American multinational semiconductor company. In 2016, John Caldwell took over as chairman for AMD. He has served as Director of Ciena, a global supplier of telecommunications networking equipment, software, and services, since August 2006. Bruce Claflin Bruce Claflin is an American businessman