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Sundar Pichai
பிச்சை சுந்தரராஜன்
Born	Pichai Sundararajan (1972-07-12) 12 July 1972 (age 52) Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India
Education	B.Tech., M.S., M.B.A.
Alma mater	IIT Kharagpur Stanford University Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)	Product Chief & Designated CEO of Google
Employer	Google Inc.
Spouse	Anjali Pichai

Pichai Sundararajan, better known as Sundar Pichai, is a technology executive who is Product Chief at Google Inc. Pichai was announced as the next Chief Executive Officer of Google on 10 August 2015.

Personal life

Pichai was born in Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India in 1972 to Tamil parents Lakshmi & Regunatha Pichai. His father Regunatha Pichai was a senior electrical engineer for the British conglomerate General Electric Company (GEC) and managed a factory that made electrical components. Sundar grew up in a two-room apartment on 46th Street, 7th Avenue, in Ashok Nagar, Madras. He is married to Anjali who was his college mate at IIT Kharagpur and has two children.

Educational background

School

Pichai completed his Class X at Jawahar Vidyalaya school located in Ashok Nagar, Chennai, and completed the Class XII from Vana Vani school located in the IIT campus, Chennai.

Graduation

Pichai earned his degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT KGP) in Metallurgical Engineering. Sundar's professors at IIT recommended he pursue a PhD at Stanford University, but he decided to pursue MS and MBA degrees instead.

Post-graduation

He holds an MS 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.

Career

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.

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 Jive Software from April 2011 to 30 July 2013.

Pichai was announced as the next CEO of Google on 10 August 2015 after previously being appointed Product Chief by current CEO Larry Page on 24 October 2014. He will step into the new position upon the completion of the formation of Alphabet Inc., the new conglomerate for the Google company family.

References

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External links

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• Sundar Pichai on Twitter

• Living people
• Google employees
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur alumni
• Indian emigrants to the United States
• Stanford University alumni
• University of Pennsylvania alumni
• 1972 births
• Tamil people
• McKinsey & Company people
• Indian corporate directors
• People from Chennai
• Alphabet Inc. people