Eric Schmidt, chairman of the Alphabet, the array of Google, will leave the position in January

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• Schmidt will become the technical advisor of the Alphabet.
• The emrpesario was tied to the company since 2001.
• The new president of the board of directors, whose identity has not yet been revealed, will not have executive functions.

The signing Alphabet, parent of Google, announced that Eric Schmidt will no longer be executive chairman of the board of directors of the company from January next, and you will become a technical advisor for a signature.

Schmidt was linked to the company since 2001, and since then has brought his “experience and clear vision on the future of the technology”, says Alphabet in a press release in which it gives account of his departure.

The co-founder of Google and CEO of Alphabet, Larry Page, reported that Schmidt will support the group “as a technical advisor on issues of science and technology”.

Schmidt, who became president and ceo of the board of directors Google in 2011 and continued with that office when the corporation was renamed Alphabet, in 2015, will remain a director of the company.

Schmidt and Page were the figures that represented Alphabet in the meeting held on 14 December 2016 the then president-elect of the united States, Donald Trump, with the most important figures in the technology sector.

will Not be reported on who will replace Schmidt in the post, but Alphabet already announced that the new president of the board of directors will not have executive functions, following the model of other technology companies such as Microsoft and Apple.

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