Former Google managers Eric Schmidt and Diane Greene leave the board

April 30 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc., parent company of Google, announced Tuesday that former CEO Eric Schmidt and former Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene would leave the board of directors. 39, administration of the research company in June.

Robin Washington, CFO of biotech company Gilead Sciences Inc., will join the board.

These changes stem from scandals related to Google 's handling of sexual misconduct cases and other situations that have caused employees and shareholders to question the oversight exercised by the board of directors. administration.

Schmidt, who has been instrumental in Google's growth for a decade, will remain a technical advisor to Alphabet. He had left his presidential post about a year ago.

"After 18 years of boardroom (meetings), I am the legacy of coach Bill Campbell and I am helping the next generation of talent to serve," he said. said in a series of tweets, referring to a late technology executive, who makes Dollar Coach ", a new book of which Schmidt is the co-author.

He added that he would continue to sit on government advisory boards on technologies and teach.

Greene did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Thomas Kurian, a veteran of Oracle Corp., was hired by Google to run his cloud computing unit at the end of last year.

An employee involved in the management of workers' requests did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Washington has been a senior at Gilead for about 11 years and has worked for management software companies before that, said Alphabet.

Thousands of Google employees over the last few months have asked the company to change its governance after recognizing errors in its handling of allegations of sexual misconduct and other grievances. employees. Many lawsuits brought by shareholders against the board of directors and executive officers as a result of these cases also required changes to the board of directors and the company's by-laws.

(Report by Uday Sampath to Bengaluru and Paresh Dave in San Francisco, edited by Bernard Orr and Richard Chang)