Pichai Sundararajan, better known as Sundar Pichai, is a technology executive and current CEO of Google Inc., under the holding company of Alphabet Inc..
Born
July 12, 1972 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaNationality Indian-American Education B.E., M.S., M.B.A. Alma mater IIT Kharagpur Stanford University The Wharton School Occupation CEO at Google Inc. Employer Alphabet Inc.
Life:
Born in Chennai, India, Pichai earned his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur)in Metallurgical Engineering. He holds an M.S. from Stanford University in Material Sciences and Engineering and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar. Pichai worked in engineering and product management at Applied Materials and in management consulting at McKinsey & Company.
Google:
Pichai joined Google in 2004, where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. He went on to oversee the development of different apps like Gmail and Google Maps. On 19 November 2009, Pichai gave a demonstration of Chrome OS and the Chromebook was released for trial and testing in 2011 and released in public in 2012 . On 20 May 2010, he announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google, and introduced the new video format WebM.[16]
On 13 March 2013, Pichai added Android to the Google products he oversees. Android was formerly managed by Andy Rubin. He was rumored to be one of the contenders for the CEO position of Microsoft in 2014.
He was a Director of JDA Software from April 2011 to 30 July 2013.
Pichai was announced as the CEO of Google on August 10, 2015 after previously being appointed Product Chief by current CEO Larry Page on 24 October, 2014.
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