Pichai Sundararajan (aka. Sundar Pichai) American–Indian was appoined as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the U.S. headquartered global giant Google Inc. A hugely high-profile job in the US technology industry . August 10th, 2015
The restructuring of Google made Alphabet Inc., into Google’s parent company. Larry Paige is now the CEO and Sergey Brin the President of Alphabet. Subsequent to the completion of the restructuring Sundar Pichai assumed the postion of CEO on October 02nd, 2015.
Pichai joined Google in 2004 and was formerly Product Chief in Google.
Sundar Pichai earned his Bachelor’s Degree B.Tech, at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT,Kharagpur) in Metallurgical Engineering. Followed by a Masters M.S. from Stanford University in Material Sciences. An MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
He was named ‘Siebel Scholar’ and ‘Palmer Scholar’.
Sundar Pichai was born on July 12th, 1972 in Madurai,TamilNadu(India) to Regunatha Pichai and Lakshmi. His father was a Senior Electrical Engineer in British General Electric, Madras(now Chennai).
He is married to his same-year classmate Anjali Pichai, a chemical engineer of IIT,Kharagpur and has 2 children