Michael Moritz Leaving Google Board of Directors

March 23rd, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments

Michael Moritz has informed Google that he will not seek re-election to its board of directors at the 2007 stockholder meeting.

Moritz has been a director since May 1999 and communicated that his decision will allow him to focus more time on his responsibilities as a general partner of Sequoia Capital.

“Mike’s many contributions to Google over the years as investor and director helped us immensely,” said Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive officer. “His insights, drive, and determination are part of Google today and will be so forever.”

“Larry and I both have valued Mike’s counsel and wisdom from Google’s earliest days,” added Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder and president of technology. “We respect his decision to focus more of his energies on Sequoia, but will miss him. Sequoia provided crucial advice, funding and leadership to Google and we look forward to working with the entire set of distinguished partners at Sequoia in the future.”