ERIC SCHMIDT

1. Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American software engineer, a businessperson, and the Executive Chairman of Alphabet, Inc

2. As an intern at Bell Labs, Schmidt did a complete re-write of Lex, a software program to generate lexical analysers for the UNIX computer operating system. From 1997 to 2001, he was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Novell.

3. From 2001 to 2011, Schmidt served as the CEO of Google.

4. He has served on various other boards in academia and industry, including the Boards of Trustees for Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, and Princeton University, New Jersey.

5. Eric Emerson Schmidt was born in Falls Church, Virginia, and grew up in Falls Church and Blacksburg, Virginia.

6. He was 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