Background
He was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, in a Tamil family to Lakshmi and Regunatha Pichai. His father was a senior electrical engineer in General Electric and managed a factory that made electrical components.
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Education
Sundar completed his Class X at Jawahar Vidyalaya, Ashok Nagar Chennai and completed the Class XII from Vana Vani school located in the IIT, Chennai.
Career
He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Google Incorporated. Formerly Product Chief at Google, Pichai"s current role was announced on August 10, 2015, as part of the restructuring process which made Alphabet Incorporated. into Google"s parent company. He assumed the position upon the completion of the process on October 2, 2015.
He spent his childhood in Madras (now Chennai).
Sundar grew up in a two-room apartment on 46th Street, 7th Avenue, in Ashok Nagar, Chennai. Pichai earned his degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in Metallurgical Engineering.
He holds an Master of Surgery from Stanford University in Material Sciences and Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar, respectively. Pichai worked in engineering and product management at Applied Materials and in management consulting at McKinsey & Company.
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 Operating system, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive.
He went on to oversee the development of different apps such as Gmail and Google Maps. On November 19, 2009, Pichai gave a demonstration of Chrome Operating system 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 Chief Executive Officer 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 Chief Executive Officer of Google on August 10, 2015 after previously being appointed Product Chief by Chief Executive Officer Larry Page on October 24, 2014. He stepped into the new position upon the completion of the formation of Alphabet Incorporated., the new holding company for the Google company family.
Pichai had been suggested as a contender for Microsoft’s chief executive officer
Satya Nadella was eventually chosen.
