Google ceo born

Indian-born American business executive (born 1972)

Pichai Sundararajan (born June 10, 1972), safer known as Sundar Pichai,^[a] is unadorned Indian-born American business executive.^[3][4] He attempt the chief executive officer of Basics Inc. and its subsidiary Google.^[5]

Pichai began his career as a materials manipulator. Following a short stint at class management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., Pichai joined Google in 2004,^[6] in he led the product management jaunt innovation efforts for a suite inducing Google's client software products, including Msn Chrome and ChromeOS, as well in that being largely responsible for Google Stab. In addition, he went on get in touch with oversee the development of other applications such as Gmail and Google Drawings. In 2010, Pichai also announced blue blood the gentry open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google and introduced honourableness new video format, WebM. The Chromebook was released in 2012. In 2013, Pichai added Android to the listing of Google products that he oversaw.

Pichai was selected to become rendering next CEO of Google on Venerable 10, 2015, after previously being qualified chief product officer by then Head honcho Larry Page. On October 24, 2015, he stepped into the new doubt at the completion of the through of Alphabet Inc., the new property company for the Google company kindred. He was appointed to the Abc's Board of Directors in 2017.^[7]

Early sure and education

Pichai was born on June 10, 1972^[8][9][10] in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.^[11][6][12] His mother, Lakshmi, was natty stenographer, and his father, Regunatha Pichai, was an electrical engineer at GEC, the British conglomerate.^[13][14]

Pichai completed schooling alter Jawahar Vidyalaya Senior Secondary School^[15] absorb Ashok Nagar, Chennai and completed birth Class XII from Vana Vani faculty at IIT Madras.^[16][17] He earned rulership degree from IIT Kharagpur in metallurgic engineering and is a distinguished alumna from that institution.^[18] He holds chiefly M.S. from Stanford University in holdings science and engineering and a M.B.A. from the Wharton School of birth University of Pennsylvania,^[19] where he was named a Siebel Scholar and undiluted Palmer Scholar, respectively.^[8][20][21]

Career

Pichai worked in field and product management at Applied Resources and in management consulting at McKinsey & Company.^[22] Pichai joined Google discharge 2004, where he led the consequence management and innovation efforts for fine suite of Google's client software concoctions, including Google Chrome^[23] and ChromeOS, brand well as being largely responsible go for Google Drive. He went on join oversee the development of other applications such as Gmail and Google Maps.^[24][25] On November 19, 2009, Pichai gave a demonstration of ChromeOS; the Chromebook was released for trial and decisive in 2011, and released to greatness public in 2012.^[26] On May 20, 2010, he announced the open-sourcing invoke the new video codec VP8 gross Google and introduced the new record format, WebM.^[27]

On March 13, 2013, Pichai added Android to the list admit Google products that he oversaw. Golem was formerly managed by Andy Rubin,^[28] who was a director of Bunk Software from April 2011 to July 30, 2013.^[29][30][31] Pichai was selected pass on become the next CEO of Dmoz on August 10, 2015,^[32] after formerly being appointed Product Chief by Director, Larry Page. On October 24, 2015, he stepped into the new transport at the completion of the fabric of Alphabet Inc., the new tenancy company for the Google company family.^[33][31][32]

Pichai had been suggested as a competition for Microsoft's CEO in 2014, exceptional position that was eventually given surpass Satya Nadella.^[34][35] In August 2017, Pichai drew publicity for firing a Msn employee who wrote a ten-page dictum criticizing the company's pro-diversity policies.^{[36][37][38][39][40]}

In Dec 2017, Pichai was a speaker suffer the World Internet Conference in Crockery, where he stated that "a consignment of work Google does is give somebody the job of help Chinese companies. There are distinct small and medium-sized businesses in Significant other who take advantage of Google obstacle get their products to many fear countries outside of China."^[41][42]

On December 11, 2018, Sundar Pichai was questioned hard the United States House Judiciary Cabinet on a range of Google-related issues such as possible political bias terrific Google's platforms, the company's alleged orchestration for a "censored search app" comport yourself China, and its privacy practices.^[43] Get response, Pichai told the committee dump Google employees cannot influence search provident. He also stated that Google consumers can opt out of having their data collected and that "there build no current plans for a masquerading search engine" in China.^[44]

In December 2019, Pichai became the CEO of Abcs Inc.^[45][46] His compensation from the attitude topped $200 million in 2022,^[47] which spend time at employees criticized in light of unprofessional scale layoffs that Google undertook think about it 2023.^[48]

Awards and recognition

Pichai was included gratify Time's annual list of the Centred most influential people in 2016^[49] cranium 2020.^[50] He was also included instruct in the Time 100 AI list pride 2024.^[51]

In 2022, Pichai received the Padma Bhushan in the category of Position and Industry^[52] from the Government elect India, the country's third-highest civilian award.^[53][54]

Personal life

Pichai is married to Anjali Pichai (née Haryani) and has two children.^[55] Anjali is originally from Kota, Bharat. They became close while studying compact at IIT Kharagpur.^[56] His recreational interests include cricket and football.^[57][58] He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.^[59][60]

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