Former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt leaves Alphabet board – IT Pro – News

Eric Schmidt leaves the board of Alphabet, Google's parent company, in June. The former CEO of Google resigned in January 2018 as chairman of the board. Diane Greene, until recently CEO of Google Cloud, also resigns as a board member.

Eric Schmidt has been a board member for eighteen years. From 2001 to 2011, he was director of Google, a post that was later taken over by Larry Page.

Schmidt became chairman of the board in 2011, first at Google Inc. and later at the parent company Alphabet, established in 2015. Just over a year ago he resigned. Schmidt remained a board member and assumed the post of technical consultant. It will continue to fulfill this consulting function in the future, says Schmidt a tweet You know.

In addition to Eric Schmidt, Diane Greene is also leaving the board, Alphabet announces. She has been a board member since 2012 and was CEO of the Cloud from December 2015 to January 2019. Schmidt and Greene are succeeded on the board by Robin L. Washington. It was since 2014 executive vice president and CFO at Gilead Sciences Inc, a biopharmaceutical company.