Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt steps down from Alphabet’s board of directors

Eric Schmidt will step down from the board of directors of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, in June. The former CEO of Google stepped down as chairman of the board in January 2018. Diane Greene, until recently CEO of Google Cloud, is also stepping down as a board member.

Eric Schmidt was a board member with the company for eighteen years. From 2001 to 2011, he was a director at Google, a position that was then taken over by Larry Page.

Schmidt became chairman of the board in 2011, first at Google Inc, later at parent company Alphabet, founded in 2015. He resigned from that position a little over a year ago. Schmidt remained a member of the board and took on the position of technical advisor. He will continue to fulfill that advisory function in the future, says Schmidt a tweet know.

In addition to Eric Schmidt, Diane Greene is also stepping down from the board of directors, Alphabet announces. She has been a board member since 2012 and was CEO of Google Cloud from December 2015 to January 2019. Schmidt and Greene are succeeded on the board by Robin L. Washington. Since 2014, she has served as executive vice president and chief financial officer at Gilead Sciences Inc, a biopharmaceutical company.