Sundar Pichai | |
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Born |
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India |
July 12, 1972
Residence | Los Altos Hills, California, U.S. |
Nationality | Indian-American |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater |
IIT Kharagpur (B.Tech.) Stanford University (M.S.) University of Pennsylvania (MBA) |
Occupation | CEO of Google |
Employer | Google Inc. |
Salary | US$150 million (2015) |
Net worth | US$1.05 billion (December 2015) |
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. 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, and he assumed the position on 2 October 2015.
Pichai was born inMadurai, Tamil Nadu, India, in a Tamil family to Lakshmi and Ragunatha Pichai. He spent his childhood in Madras (now Chennai). His father was a senior electrical engineer at General Electric, and managed a factory that made electrical components. Sundar grew up in a two-room apartment on 46th Street, 7th Avenue, in Ashok Nagar, Chennai.
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. Pichai earned his degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in Metallurgical Engineering. 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, 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.