Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt is an American businessman and technologist who currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees at Caltech, a position he began on October 31, 2026. He is also the Chair and CEO of Relativity Space, an aerospace company building reusable rockets. Schmidt is best known for his tenure as CEO and Chairman of Google from 2001 to 2011, where he guided the company's transformation from a startup into one of the world's most influential companies alongside founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from Princeton University and MS and PhD degrees in computer science from UC Berkeley.