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Wendy Schmidt is an American businesswoman and philanthropist who has a net worth of $1.2 billion. She is the co-founder of the Schmidt Family Foundation, a philanthropic organization that focuses on environmental sustainability, ocean health, and science and technology. She is also the founder of the 11th Hour Project, a grant-making organization that supports projects that address climate change. Schmidt was born in City of Orange, New Jersey, and graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in economics. She went on to earn an MBA from the University of Chicago. Schmidt began her career in the financial services industry, working for Goldman Sachs and then Credit Suisse First Boston. She then moved to the technology industry, working for Apple and then Google. In 2009, Schmidt and her husband, Eric Schmidt, co-founded the Schmidt Family Foundation, which has since donated more than $1 billion to various causes. In 2011, she founded the 11th Hour Project, which has since funded more than 500 projects in over 40 countries. In addition to her philanthropic work, Schmidt is also an active investor. She is a partner in the venture capital firm Innovation Endeavors, which has invested in more than 100 companies. She is also a board member of the Environmental Defense Fund and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

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Her husband is Eric Schmidt (m. 1980)

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In 2010, through the Schmidt Family Foundation, she offered the prize purse of the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge, a challenge award for the efficient capturing of crude oil from seawater motivated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

In 2009, Wendy and Eric Schmidt created the $25 million Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund at Princeton University to support research and technology in the natural sciences and engineering. The Fund awarded $1.2 million in grants in 2010 and $1.7 million in grants in 2012.

After the establishment of the foundation, The 11th Hour Project became its main direct charitable program. ReMain Nantucket, founded in 2007 by Wendy Schmidt, is a program area of The Schmidt Family Foundation focused on the economic, social, and environmental vitality of downtown Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Schmidt has supported propositions and politicians in California. She gave $1 million to Proposition 87, a failed 2006 initiative to raise taxes on oil companies to pay for research and incentives to support alternative energy; $50,000 to the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, which was approved by voters; and $25,900 to Jerry Brown’s successful campaign for Governor of California.

In 2005, Schmidt became a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and founded the 11th Hour Project to raise awareness about climate change and global warming. In 2006, Wendy and Eric Schmidt established the Schmidt Family Foundation to address issues of sustainability and the responsible use of natural resources. She is the president of the foundation and directs its grant making. As a yachtswoman, Schmidt has taken a personal interest in promoting some of the 11th Hour Project's ocean awareness programs through competitive sailing.

After graduating in 1981 with a master's degree in journalism, she joined the marketing department of Sun Microsystems, where Eric Schmidt later worked as well. She left Sun in 1986 to start an interior design firm, which she ran for 16 years. Wendy and Eric Schmidt have two daughters, Sophie and Alison.

She graduated from Smith College in 1977 and attended graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. While there, she met Eric Schmidt, then a doctoral student in computer science, and edited his thesis. They married in June 1980.

Wendy Schmidt (born Wendy Susan Boyle; 1955) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the wife of Eric Schmidt, the former Executive Chairman of Google, whom she met in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the president of the Schmidt Family Foundation.

She was born in 1955 in Orange, New Jersey. Her parents owned an interior design firm, Boyle Design Associates.