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Sundar Pichai
பிச்சை சுந்தரராஜன்
Pichai in 2014
Born	Pichai Sundararajan (1972-07-12) July 12, 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	CEO of Google
Employer	Google Inc.
Spouse	Anjali Pichai

Pichai Sundararajan (born July 12, 1972), better known as Sundar Pichai, is a technology executive who is Chief Executive Officer of Google Inc. Formerly Product Chief at Google, Pichai was announced as the next Chief Executive Officer of Google on August 10, 2015, as part of the restructuring process making Alphabet Inc. Google's parent company. He assumed the position upon the completion of the process on October 2, 2015.

Early life and education

Pichai was born in Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India in 1972 to Tamil parents Lakshmi and 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.

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

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 such Gmail and Google Maps. On November 19, 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 May 20, 2010, he announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google, and introduced the new video format WebM.

On March 13, 2013, Pichai added Android to the list of 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 July 30, 2013.

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

Personal life

He is married to Anjali Haryani a chemical engineering student and batchmate at IIT Kharagpur and has two children.

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External links

• Template:Google+
• 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