Wendy Susan Schmidt is an American businesswoman and philanthropist.
11 Facts About Wendy Schmidt
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Wendy Schmidt is the wife of Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, whom she met in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Wendy Schmidt is the president of the Schmidt Family Foundation, holding over $1 billion in philanthropic assets.
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Wendy Schmidt was born in 1955 in Orange, New Jersey.
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Wendy Schmidt's parents owned an interior design firm, Boyle Design Associates.
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Wendy Schmidt graduated from Smith College in 1977 and attended graduate school at Berkeley.
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Wendy Schmidt left Sun in 1986 to start an interior design firm, which she ran for 16 years.
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Wendy and Eric Schmidt had two daughters, Sophie and Alison.
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In 2005, Wendy Schmidt became a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council and founded the 11th Hour Project to raise awareness about climate change and global warming.
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Wendy Schmidt is the president of the foundation and directs its grant making.
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Wendy Schmidt has served on the America's Cup Organizing Committee in San Francisco.