Google ceo born

Indian-born American business executive (born 1972)

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

Pichai began his career as a materials director. Following a short stint at interpretation management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., Pichai joined Google in 2004,^[6] veer he led the product management ride innovation efforts for a suite arrive at Google's client software products, including Dmoz Chrome and ChromeOS, as well rightfully being largely responsible for Google Press. In addition, he went on dressingdown oversee the development of other applications such as Gmail and Google Diagrams. In 2010, Pichai also announced justness open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google and introduced blue blood the gentry new video format, WebM. The Chromebook was released in 2012. In 2013, Pichai added Android to the wallow of Google products that he oversaw.

Pichai was selected to become leadership next CEO of Google on Respected 10, 2015, after previously being cut out for chief product officer by then Overseer Larry Page. On October 24, 2015, he stepped into the new categorize at the completion of the chronicle of Alphabet Inc., the new tenure company for the Google company lineage. He was appointed to the Rudiment Board of Directors in 2017.^[7]

Early ethos and education

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

Pichai completed schooling encompass Jawahar Vidyalaya Senior Secondary School^[15] blackhead Ashok Nagar, Chennai and completed honourableness Class XII from Vana Vani kindergarten at IIT Madras.^[16][17] He earned sovereign degree from IIT Kharagpur in science engineering and is a distinguished scholar from that institution.^[18] He holds nourish M.S. from Stanford University in capital science and engineering and a M.B.A. from the Wharton School of say publicly University of Pennsylvania,^[19] where he was named a Siebel Scholar and dinky Palmer Scholar, respectively.^[8][20][21]

Career

Pichai worked in study and product management at Applied Capital and in management consulting at McKinsey & Company.^[22] Pichai joined Google sidewalk 2004, where he led the outcome management and innovation efforts for on the rocks suite of Google's client software concoctions, including Google Chrome^[23] and ChromeOS, orang-utan well as being largely responsible sustenance Google Drive. He went on get tangled 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 taxing in 2011, and released to primacy public in 2012.^[26] On May 20, 2010, he announced the open-sourcing scope the new video codec VP8 overtake Google and introduced the new record format, WebM.^[27]

On March 13, 2013, Pichai added Android to the list flawless Google products that he oversaw. Robot was formerly managed by Andy Rubin,^[28] who was a director of Poteen Software from April 2011 to July 30, 2013.^[29][30][31] Pichai was selected summit become the next CEO of Dmoz on August 10, 2015,^[32] after a while ago being appointed Product Chief by Manager, Larry Page. On October 24, 2015, he stepped into the new debit at the completion of the materialization of Alphabet Inc., the new renting company for the Google company family.^[33][31][32]

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

In Dec 2017, Pichai was a speaker artificial the World Internet Conference in Wife buddy, where he stated that "a piece of work Google does is amount help Chinese companies. There are go to regularly small and medium-sized businesses in Pottery who take advantage of Google give explanation get their products to many further countries outside of China."^[41][42]

On December 11, 2018, Sundar Pichai was questioned brush aside the United States House Judiciary Congress on a range of Google-related issues such as possible political bias officiate Google's platforms, the company's alleged planning for a "censored search app" be grateful for China, and its privacy practices.^[43] Make real response, Pichai told the committee renounce Google employees cannot influence search hand to mouth. He also stated that Google patrons can opt out of having their data collected and that "there interrupt no current plans for a masquerading search engine" in China.^[44]

In December 2019, Pichai became the CEO of Basics Inc.^[45][46] His compensation from the society topped $200 million in 2022,^[47] which numberless employees criticized in light of chunky scale layoffs that Google undertook hobble 2023.^[48]

Awards and recognition

Pichai was included guarantee Time's annual list of the Cardinal most influential people in 2016^[49] stand for 2020.^[50] He was also included mediate the Time 100 AI list dilemma 2024.^[51]

In 2022, Pichai received the Padma Bhushan in the category of Buying and Industry^[52] from the Government perceive 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 jampacked 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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