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Wendy Susan Schmidt ( née Boyle) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the wife of Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, whom she met in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley . She is the president of the Schmidt Family Foundation, holding over $1 billion in philanthropic assets.
About. Wendy Schmidt is a philanthropist and investor who has spent the past 17 years creating innovative non-profit organizations to work with communities around the world for clean, renewable energy, resilient food systems, healthy oceans and the protection of human rights.
Wendy Schmidt is a philanthropist and investor who co-founded Schmidt Ocean Institute and other non-profit organizations to advance clean energy, healthy food, ocean health and human rights. She also supports journalism, documentaries, sailing and innovation for coastal communities.
27 de sept. de 2023 · Schmidt’s own experience of racing sailing yachts – she helms her own superyacht and other boats she races on, and recently became the first female and first American to win the Barcolana race – is paying dividends beyond just success on the water.
25 de oct. de 2016 · 25 October 2016 • Written by Georgie Ainslie. “Wealth is a responsibility,” superyacht owner Wendy Schmidt tells Georgie Ainslie. So she built the fuel-efficient, 46 metre ketch Elfje – and founded 11th Hour Racing, to help safeguard the oceans. Wendy Schmidt could do nothing for the rest of her life.
30 de ago. de 2022 · Wendy Schmidt, at the helm of Deep Blue, will be competing in her third Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. Cory Silken. By John Clarke. Aug. 30, 2022. Last year, the American sailor Wendy Schmidt helmed...
To the sea, and beyond. Squint at the images released from the James Webb Space Telescope this summer—a black sky electrified by starry sparks—and you could be looking into another frontier, much closer to home: the deep ocean, alight with bioluminescent creatures and vastly underexplored.
