Sundar Pichai was born on June 10, 1972, Madras [now Chennai], Tamil Nadu, India. The full name of Pichai is Pichai Sundararajan . Sundar Pichai is a successful business executive who is best known for being the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Google Inc. He also heads its parent company Alphabet Inc.
Pichai has been widely praised for his leadership skills and product vision; he is credited with making Android operating system more popular.
Education of Sundar Pichai
At an early age Pichai had interest in technology and an extraordinary memory, especially for telephone numbers. After earning a degree in metallurgy (B.Tech.) in 1993 and a silver medal at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, he was awarded a scholarship to study at Stanford University (M.S. in engineering and materials science, 1995). He remained in the United States thereafter, working briefly for Applied Materials (a supplier of semiconductor materials) and then done M.B.A. (2002) from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Pichai joined Google in 2004
Following a short stint at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., Pichai joined Google in 2004 as the head of product management and development. He initially worked on the Google Toolbar, which enabled those using the Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox Web browsers to easily access the Google search engine.
In 2014 became product chief of both Google and Android smartphone operating system
Over the next few years, he was directly involved in the development of Google’s own browser, Chrome, which was released to the public in 2008. That same year Pichai was named vice president of product development, and he began to take a more-active public role. By 2012 he was a senior vice president, and two years later he was made product chief over both Google and the Android smartphone operating system.
Became CEO of Microsoft in 2014 and of Alphabet in 2019
Pichai was reportedly actively hired by microblogging service Twitter in 2011 and advertised as a potential CEO of Microsoft in 2014, both to stay with Google. Given a large salary package. He was also known to mediate Google’s $ 3.2 billion transaction to acquire Nest Labs in 2014. That’s why the industry was taken for granted when Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced the establishment of
Alphabet Inc. in August 2015. According to insiders, Pichai has been appointed CEO of Google and reorganized as a subsidiary. In December 2019, he was appointed CEO of Alphabet to replace Page, who resigned.
Sundar Pichai married to
Sundar Pichai is married to Anjali Pichai who is an alumnus of Kasturba Medical College, Manipal and hails from Vellore, Tamil Nadu. He met Anjali at IIT Kharagpur.They now has 2 children.
Awards and Recoginistion of Google CEO Sundar Pichai
In 2017, he was listed among one of the most powerful people in business by Forbes. He also won several awards like: Top 100 Global Thought Leaders Award by The World Economic Forum; Digital Visionary Award by The Webby Awards; Visionary Award by Variety; The Game Changer Award presented by Tony Robbins; Excellence In Innovation Award presented by Consumer Technology Association; Tech Titan Award presented by CNBC; Man Of The Year in Business Leadership presented by NDTV Profit etc
Net worth of Sundar Pichai
Salary of Sundat Pichai is the most searched question on Google.
In 2020, the annual proxy filing by Google to the US Securities and Exchange Commission states that the base salary of Sundar Pichai is 20$million (around 14.6 crores INR) as he became the CEO of Alphabet and got promoted. Previously, Pichai’s base salary was somewhere at 6.5$ million in 2019.
