Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin recruited Eric Schmidt from Novell, where he led that company's strategic planning, management and technology development as chairman and CEO. Since coming to Google, Eric has focused on building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google's rapid growth as a company and on ensuring that quality remains high while product development cycle times are kept to a minimum. Along with Larry and Sergey, Eric shares responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations. Eric's Novell experience culminated a 20-year record of achievement as an Internet strategist, entrepreneur and developer of great technologies. His well-seasoned perspective perfectly complements Google's needs as a young and rapidly growing search engine with a unique corporate culture.

Prior to his appointment at Novell, Eric was chief technology officer and corporate executive officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he led the development of Java, Sun's platform-independent programming technology, and defined Sun's Internet software strategy. Before joining Sun in 1983, he was a member of the research staff at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and held positions at Bell Laboratories and Zilog. Eric has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and a master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2006, Eric was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which recognized his work on "the development of strategies for the world's most successful Internet search engine company." In 2007, Eric was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a Hellman fellow.

Karim Temsamani manages Google's domestic business and strategic partnerships in Australia and New Zealand. Karim joined Google from Fairfax Media, where he was most recently Group Director, Fairfax General Magazines (responsible for growing the profile and advertising revenue of Fairfax's suite of inserted magazines) and Commercial Director for Newspapers (responsible for agency and group sales, trade marketing and business development). Prior to this he was the publisher and Vice President of Who Weekly at Time Inc South Pacific from 1999 to 2002. He has previously served in a variety of senior capacities with Hachette, including the positions of regional business publisher in Hong Kong (1995-96), associate publisher for Korea in Seoul (1996-97), and managing director for Hachette in Sydney (1997-99).

Alan Noble manages the growth of Google Australia's engineering and R&D centre in Sydney. The centre, which launched in May 2005, contributes to the development of Google products and services in Australia and around the world. Alan Noble joined Google from NetPriva, a software company he co-founded and most recently served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer for nearly two years . In 1996 he founded NetMind in California which was acquired in 2000 by Intellisync, subsequently acquired by Nokia. He remained at Intellisync as VP of Engineering until 2002, until joining Foursticks as CTO, where he was instrumental in bringing Foursticks technology to market. The Foursticks technology was acquired by NetPriva in 2005. Alan has been granted seven U.S. patents and has several others pending.