Eric Schmidt

A business leader and software engineer, Schmidt previously served as Google's chief executive officer from 2001 to 2011, growing the company from an early Silicon Valley startup to arguably the most important technology company on the planet. Under his leadership, Google dramatically scaled its infrastructure, conducted a successful $23 billion IPO, launched popular product offerings like Gmail, Google Maps, Chrome, Adsense, and Fiber, and acquired key technologies and services like YouTube and Android. Additionally, Schmidt served as chairman of Google until 2015, as chairman of the Department of Defense's Innovation board, and as chairman of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. He has also served on the boards of Alphabet, Apple, Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Mayo Clinic.

Schmidt is currently co-founder of Schmidt Futures and chairman of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, among other initiatives. He has recently written a book, "The Age of AI: And Our Human Future," alongside former U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and computer scientist Daniel Huttenlocher.