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Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet

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Re: Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet

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Post by rajnathani »

> Alphabet expects that its board will appoint a new, non-executive chairman at its next meeting in January, meaning that it will join the ranks of Apple and Microsoft as major companies with non-executive chairman.

Could someone provide some context around this topic of executive/non-executive chairpersons?

Edit: The above quote is taken from the original link which this HN post pointed to - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/21/eric-schmidt-is-stepping-dow...

Re: Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet

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Post by sjg007 »

rajnathani wrote: post #3

> Alphabet expects that its board will appoint a new, non-executive chairman at its next meeting in January, meaning that it will join the ranks of Apple and Microsoft as major companies with non-executive chairman. Could someone provide some context around this topic of executive/non-executive chairpersons? Edit: The above quote is taken from the original link which this HN post pointed to - https://www.cnbc.com/201…

Non-executive means that the person is not an employee of the company.

Re: Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet

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Post by dragonwriter »

rajnathani wrote: post #3

> Alphabet expects that its board will appoint a new, non-executive chairman at its next meeting in January, meaning that it will join the ranks of Apple and Microsoft as major companies with non-executive chairman. Could someone provide some context around this topic of executive/non-executive chairpersons? Edit: The above quote is taken from the original link which this HN post pointed to - https://www.cnbc.com/201…

> Could someone provide some context around this topic of executive/non-executive chairpersons?

An executive chairman is something of a weird beast; they are both chairman of the board and an executive employee involved in managing the firm (as an employee, they usually report to the CEO, but the CEO is accountable to the board, which the chairman, well, chairs.) The exact division of duties between an executive chairman and the CEO is different in every firm using the arrangement, I would expect.

A non-executive chairman is just the head of the board and not involved in day-to-day executive management of the firm, only oversight of management.

Re: Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet

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Post by kzrdude »

yuhong wrote: post #6

As it happens, I posted a blog post on some issues about Google, Mozilla, and the debt-based economy: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2017/12/google-mozilla-and-debt... I now have email threads with jrockway and ChuckMcM on this.

Your blog post has an unreadable presentation and looks like blog spam, unfortunately.

Re: Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet

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Post by sjg007 »

dragonwriter wrote: post #5
rajnathani wrote: post #3

> Alphabet expects that its board will appoint a new, non-executive chairman at its next meeting in January, meaning that it will join the ranks of Apple and Microsoft as major companies with non-executive chairman. Could someone provide some context around this topic of executive/non-executive chairpersons? Edit: The above quote is taken from the original link which this HN post pointed to - https://www.cnbc.com/201…

> Could someone provide some context around this topic of executive/non-executive chairpersons? An executive chairman is something of a weird beast; they are both chairman of the board and an executive employee involved in managing the firm (as an employee, they usually report to the CEO, but the CEO is accountable to the board, which the chairman, well, chairs.) The exact division of duties between an executive chai…

Well you can be the chair of the board and CEO so then that's not too weird.
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