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  • May 1, 2019
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Eric Schmidt And Diane Greene To Step Down From Alphabet Board

Eric Schmidt Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm Tech Alphabet has announced that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and ex-Google Cloud…

Eric Schmidt

Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm Tech

Alphabet has announced that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and ex-Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene will not seek re-elections to its board after the expiration of their current tenures on the 19th of June 2019. This entails Schmidt and Greene are stepping down after 18 years and 7 years on the company’s board respectively. Schmidt who ran Google from July 2001 to April 2011 will continue as technical advisor to Alphabet.

Alphabet made this announcement while also announcing a new board member, Robin Washington, who notably serves as CFO of Gilead Sciences and is also a board member at Salesforce. She previously served in a number of executive positions at PeopleSoft and as CFO of enterprise software company Hyperion Solutions.

Diane Greene

Photograph by Kevin Moloney / Fortune Brainstorm Tech

Greene stepped down as CEO of Google Cloud January this year to be replaced by ex-Oracle executive Thomas Kurian. She became CEO of Google Cloud in December 2015.


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