With Google's recent re-organization and with its co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, taking on the leadership of the parent company, Alphabet, this search engine subsidiary will now have the 43-year-old Sundar Pichai as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Here's a quick look on some of the things about Pichai that will tell us how he landed his new position.
Personal and Educational Background:
- He was born Pichai Sundararajanin in 1972 in Tamil Nadu, India.
- His father was an electrical engineer who worked for the firm GEC.
- He took up Metallurgical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpu.
- They later migrated to the States where he earned graduate degrees in Material Science from Stanford University and in Business from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- His wife is Anjali Pichai and they have a daughter and a son.
- He loves to play chess in his free time.
Contributions to Google:
- He joined Google in 2004 and since then has been a Superstar in terms of his work and accomplishments. Among them were:
- He worked behind the scenes in the development of the Google toolbar.
- He made Google as the default search engine for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and other web browsers.
- He helped in the development of Google's own browser, Chrome.
- He managed Gmail and Google Maps.
- He oversaw Google+, ad products and other commerce products of Google.
- He took over Android.
- He was in-charge of product and engineering for Google prior to his appointment as CEO.
- He is considered as the "spokesman" and translator for former Google boss Larry Page, whose big thoughts "don't always make sense in the context of running the company day-to-day."
Net worth
His net worth is not known exactly, but it is in the millions range. Reports have it that he was given $50 million by Google so he won't accept Twitter's offer to be its product head. Earlier, Pichai was also being considered by Microsoft as a possible replacement for its former CEO, Steve Ballmer.
