Eric Schmidt is stepping down as executive chairman of Alphabet, Google's parent company

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Eric Schmidt is stepping down as executive chairman of Alphabet, Google's parent company

Eric Schmidt is stepping down as the Executive Chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, the company confirms. He will take a new role as a "technical advisor" at the parent company.

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Schmidt joined Google as its CEO in 2001. In 2015, Google created Alphabet as a new parent company, with Schmidt transitioning over as Executive Chairman of the new entity. At that time, Sundar Pichai became the CEO of Google.

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