Schmidt will become a technical advisor to the company he formerly chaired. He handed the CEO role to co-founder Larry Page in 2012, and left the chairman of the board position in 2018.
Schmidt first joined Google as CEO in 2001, back when the company only had several hundred employees, and became its executive chairman 10 years later, handing the CEO role over to co-founder Larry Page. He kept that chairmanship when Google restructured to become Alphabet in 2015, then announced he was"Eric has made an extraordinary contribution to Google and Alphabet as CEO, Chairman, and Board member.
Former Google Cloud chief Diane Greene, who has served on the board since 2012, will also not seek re-election. Former Oracle exec ThomasThe company has also added a new board member, Robin L. Washington, who joined on Apr. 25 and will be part of the Leadership and Compensation Committee. Washington is currently the CFO of biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences.
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