- Source of Wealth: Google
- Age: 65
- Birth Place: Falls Church, Virginia, United States
- Marital Status: Separated (Wendy Schmidt)
- Full Name: Eric Emerson Schmidt
- Nationality: American
- Date of Birth: April 27, 1955
- Ethnicity: Cornish, English, German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss-German, Welsh
- Occupation: Software Engineer, Businessman
- Education: University of California – Berkeley, Princeton University, Yorktown High School
- Children: 2 (Sophie Schmidt, Allison Schmidt)
American software engineer and businessman, Eric Schmidt has an estimated net worth of $14.7 billion as of April 2019. He accumulated his wealth from his ownership stake in search giant Google. Schmidt is best known as chief executive of Google from 2001 to 2011, he is the current executive chairman of Google. Attended Yorktown High School, earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from Princeton University and MS/PhD from University of California, Berkeley. Schmidt started his career working for several IT companies like Byzromotti Design, Bell Labs, Zilog and Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. He also served as a member on the board of directors for Apple Inc.