Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai
Born Pichai Sundararajan
(1972-07-12) July 12, 1972[1]
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India[2]
Residence Los Altos Hills, California, U.S.
Nationality Indian American[3]
Citizenship United States
Alma mater IIT Kharagpur (B.Tech.)
Stanford University (M.S.)
The Wharton School (MBA)
Occupation CEO of Google[4]
Employer Google (2004–present)
Salary US$199.7 million (2016)[5]
Net worth Increase US$650 million (December 2015) [6]

Pichai Sundararajan (born 12 July 1972), also known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian American business executive.

Pichai is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Google Inc.[7][8][9] Formerly the Product Chief of Google, Pichai's current role was announced on 10 August 2015, as part of the restructuring process that made Alphabet Inc. into Google's parent company,[10] and he assumed the position on 2 October 2015.[11]

Early life and education

Pichai was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India,[2] the son of middle-class[12] Tamil parents Lakshmi and Ragunatha Pichai.[13][14] Sundar grew up in a two-room apartment on 46th Street, 7th Avenue, in Ashok Nagar, Chennai.[13]

Sundar completed schooling in Jawahar Vidyalaya, a Central Board of Secondary Education school in Ashok Nagar, Chennai and completed the Class XII from Vana Vani school in the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.[15][16] Pichai earned his degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in Metallurgical Engineering.[17] He holds an M.S. from Stanford University in Material Sciences and Engineering, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,[18] where he was named a Siebel Scholar[19][20] and a Palmer Scholar, respectively.

Career

Pichai speaking at the 2015 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain

Pichai worked in engineering and product management at Applied Materials and in management consulting at McKinsey & Company.[21]

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[22] and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. He went on to oversee the development of different applications such as Gmail and Google Maps.[23][24] On 19 November 2009, Pichai gave a demonstration of Chrome OS; the Chromebook was released for trial and testing in 2011, and released to the public in 2012.[25] On 20 May 2010, he announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google and introduced the new video format, WebM.[26]

On 13 March 2013, Pichai added Android to the list of Google products that he oversees. Android was formerly managed by Andy Rubin.[27] He was a director of Jive Software from April 2011 to 30 July 2013.[28][29][30] Pichai was selected to become the next CEO of Google on 10 August 2015[10] after previously being appointed Product Chief by CEO, Larry Page. On 24 October 2015 he stepped into the new position at the completion of the formation of Alphabet Inc., the new holding company for the Google company family.[11][30][31]

Pichai had been suggested as a contender for Microsoft's CEO in 2014, a position that was eventually given to Satya Nadella.[32][33]

In August 2017, Pichai drew publicity for firing a Google employee who wrote a ten-page manifesto criticizing the company's diversity policies and arguing that "distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and ... these differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership".[34][35][36][37] While noting that the manifesto raised a number of issues that are open to debate, Pichai said in a memo to Google employees that "to suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK".[38]

Personal life

Pichai is married to Anjali Pichai and has two children.[8] He lives in Los Altos Hills[39][40] Pichai's interests include soccer and cricket. He is an avid fan of FC Barcelona and states that "he watches every game of the club".[41]

References

  1. ↑ Nidhi. "All you need to know about Google's first India-born CEO". dnaindia. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 Vaitheesvaran, Bharani; Elizabeth, Shilpa (12 August 2015). "The rapid climb of Sundar Pichai to technology pfeak: From school days to Silicon Valley". The Economic Times.
  3. ↑ "Sundar Pichai, biography". 11 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "India-born Sundar Pichai is new CEO of Google". The Times of India. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "Google CEO Gets Another Massive Pay Package". Bloomberg.
  6. ↑ Neate, Rupert (February 8, 2016). "Google's Sundar Pichai becomes highest-paid CEO in US" – via The Guardian.
  7. ↑ "Google's Sundar Pichai too in race to head Microsoft?". Times of India. 2 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  8. 1 2 "Sundar Pichai; man who runs Chrome at Google". Siliconindia.com. 12 May 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  9. ↑ "New CEO of Google alphabet Pichai Sundararajan". TNP LIVE. Hyderabad, India. 11 August 2015.
  10. 1 2 "G is for Google". Official Google Blog.
  11. 1 2 "SEC Filing (Form 8-K) by Alphabet Inc.". 2 October 2015.
  12. ↑ "Sundar Pichai – An Inspiring Migrant Story". Y- AXIS. August 11, 2015.
  13. 1 2 "A shy, quiet boy who loved science". Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
  14. ↑ "Ten things about Sundar Pichai". dailyo.in. August 11, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Sundar Pichai, a quiet boy". The Hindu.
  16. ↑ "School mates talk about Sundar Pichai". The Hindu.<
  17. ↑ "Chennai's Sundar Pichai is dark horse". indiatimes.com.
  18. ↑ "The rise and rise of Sundar Pichai".
  19. ↑ Siebel Scholars. Siebel Scholars. Retrieved on 23 August 2013.
  20. ↑ Cooper, Charles (13 March 2013). "Sundar Pichai:Seven prominent Indian-origin people in global IT world". CNET. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  21. ↑ Thoppil, Dhanya Ann (14 March 2013). "Who Is Google Android’s Sundar Pichai?". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  22. ↑ Lee, Dave (11 August 2015). "Sundar Pichai: Google's new boss from humble roots". BBC. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  23. ↑ Cooper, Charles (March 13, 2013). "Meet Google new Android chief Sundar Pichai". CNET. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
  24. ↑ Cooper, Charles (13 March 2013). "Sundar Pichai: The man Google, Twitter fought for". CNET. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  25. ↑ Strohmeyer, Robert (19 November 2009). "Google Chrome OS Unveiled: Speed, Simplicity, and Security Stressed". PCWorld. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  26. ↑ "Google Open Sourcing VP8 as Part of WebM Project — Online Video News". Gigaom.com. 19 May 2010. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  27. ↑ Olivarez-Giles, Nathan (13 March 2013). "Google Replaces Android Boss Andy Rubin With Chrome’s Sundar Pichai". Wired. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  28. ↑ "Who is Sundar Pichai?". NDTV.com. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  29. ↑ "Jive Elects Informatica Executive Margaret Breya to Board of Directors". Jive Software. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  30. 1 2 Helft, Miguel (27 October 2014). "The Incredibly Fast Rise of Sundar Pichai". Fortune.
  31. ↑ "Official Google Blog: G is for Google". Official Google Blog.
  32. ↑ Furrier, John (31 January 2014). "Google SVP of Chrome & Apps Sundar Pichai now front runner for Microsoft CEO job". SiliconANGLE. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  33. ↑ Samuel Gibbs, The most powerful Indian technologists in Silicon Valley theguardian.com 11 April 2014.
  34. ↑ "Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-08-08.
  35. ↑ Wakabayashi, Daisuke (2017-08-07). "Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Memo Questioning Women in Tech". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-08-08.
  36. ↑ "Here Are the Citations for the Anti-Diversity Manifesto Circulating at Google". Motherboard. Retrieved 2017-08-08.
  37. ↑ Statt, Nick (2017-08-07). "Google fires employee who wrote anti-diversity memo". The Verge. Retrieved 2017-08-08.
  38. ↑ Warren, Tom (2017-08-08). "Read Google CEO's email to staff about anti-diversity memo". The Verge. Retrieved 2017-08-08.
  39. ↑ Thielman, Sam (15 August 2015). "Sundar Pichai: Google rising star reaches the top (like his teacher said he would)". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 15 August 2015. Married with two children.
  40. ↑ Matthews, Damion (2016-01-25). "» See Swatt Miers’ Design For Google CEO’s New Home". SFLUXE. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  41. ↑ FC Barcelona (2017-03-02), Google CEO pays visit to FC Barcelona, retrieved 2017-03-03
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