Pichai

Sunderarajan

Pichai Sundararajan (born 12 July 1972), also known

as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian American business exec-
utive.
Pichai is the chief executive ocer (CEO) of Google
Inc.[7][8][9] Formerly the Product Chief of Google,
Pichais current role was announced on 10 August 2015,
as part of the restructuring process that made Alphabet
Inc. into Googles parent company,[10] and he assumed
the position on 2 October 2015.[11]

1 Early life and education

Pichai speaking at the 2015 Mobile World Congress in
Barcelona, Spain
Pichai was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India,[2] the
son of middle-class[12] Tamil parents Lakshmi and Ra-
gunatha 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 open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google
Nagar, Chennai and completed the Class XII from and introduced the new video format, WebM.[26]
Vana Vani school in the Indian Institute of Technology On 13 March 2013, Pichai added Android to the list
Madras.[15][16] Pichai earned his degree from Indian In- of Google products that he oversees. Android was for-
stitute of Technology Kharagpur in Metallurgical Engi- merly managed by Andy Rubin.[27] He was a director of
neering.[17] He holds an M.S. from Stanford University Jive Software from April 2011 to 30 July 2013.[28][29][30]
in Material Sciences and Engineering, and an MBA from Pichai was selected to become the next CEO of Google
the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,[18] on 10 August 2015[10] after previously being appointed
where he was named a Siebel Scholar[19][20] and a Palmer Product Chief by CEO, Larry Page. On 24 October 2015
Scholar, respectively. 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]
2 Career Pichai had been suggested as a contender for Microsoft's
CEO in 2014, a position that was eventually given to Satya
Pichai worked in engineering and product management Nadella.[32][33]
at Applied Materials and in management consulting at In August 2017, Pichai drew publicity for ring a Google
McKinsey & Company.[21] employee who wrote a ten-page manifesto criticizing the
Pichai joined Google in 2004, where he led the product companys diversity policies and arguing that distribu-
management and innovation eorts for a suite of Googles tion of preferences and abilities of men and women dier
client software products, including Google Chrome[22] in part due to biological causes and ... these dierences
and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible may explain why we don't see equal representation of
for Google Drive. He went on to oversee the de- women in tech and leadership.[34][35][36][37] While not-
velopment of dierent applications such as Gmail and ing that the manifesto raised a number of issues that are
Google Maps.[23][24] On 19 November 2009, Pichai gave open to debate, Pichai said in a memo to Google employ-
a demonstration of Chrome OS; the Chromebook was re- ees that to suggest a group of our colleagues have traits
leased for trial and testing in 2011, and released to the that make them less biologically suited to that work is of-
public in 2012.[25] On 20 May 2010, he announced the fensive and not OK.[38]

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3 Personal life
Pichai is married to Anjali Pichai and has two children.[8]
He lives in Los Altos Hills[39][40] Pichais interests include [21] Thoppil, Dhanya Ann (14 March 2013). Who Is Google
soccer and cricket. He is an avid fan of FC Barcelona and
states that he watches every game of the club.[41]
4 References
[1] Nidhi. All you need to know about Googles rst India-
born CEO. dnaindia. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
[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). Googles Sundar
Pichai becomes highest-paid CEO in US via The
Guardian.
[7] Googles Sundar Pichai too in race to head Microsoft?".
Times of India. 2 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February
2014.
[8] Sundar Pichai; man who runs Chrome at Google. Sil-
iconindia.com. 12 May 2011. Retrieved 15 November
2012.
[9] New CEO of Google alphabet Pichai Sundararajan.
TNP LIVE. Hyderabad, India. 11 August 2015.
[10] G is for Google. Ocial Google Blog.
[11] SEC Filing (Form 8-K) by Alphabet Inc.. 2 October
2015.
[12] Sundar Pichai An Inspiring Migrant Story. Y- AXIS.
August 11, 2015.
[13] 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] Chennais 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.
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[20] Cooper, Charles (13 March 2013). Sundar Pichai:
Seven prominent Indian-origin people in global IT world.
CNET. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
Androids Sundar Pichai?". The Wall Street Journal. Re-
trieved 29 April 2014.
[22] Lee, Dave (11 August 2015). Sundar Pichai: Googles
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 Re-
places Android Boss Andy Rubin With Chromes 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 Febru-
ary 2014.
[30] Helft, Miguel (27 October 2014). The Incredibly Fast
Rise of Sundar Pichai. Fortune.
[31] Ocial Google Blog: G is for Google. Ocial Google
Blog.
[32] Furrier, John (31 January 2014). Google SVP of
Chrome & Apps Sundar Pichai now front runner for Mi-
crosoft CEO job. SiliconANGLE. Retrieved 3 February
2014.
[33] Samuel Gibbs, The most powerful Indian technologists in
Silicon Valley theguardian.com 11 April 2014.
[34] Googles Ideological Echo Chamber (PDF). Retrieved
2017-08-08.
[35] Wakabayashi, Daisuke (2017-08-07). Google Fires En-
gineer 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 res employee who
wrote anti-diversity memo. The Verge. Retrieved 2017-
08-08.
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[38] Warren, Tom (2017-08-08). Read Google CEOs email

to sta 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 CEOs New Home. SFLUXE. Re-
trieved 26 June 2016.

[41] FC Barcelona (2017-03-02), Google CEO pays visit to FC

Barcelona, retrieved 2017-03-03

5 External links
Sundar Pichai on Twitter
Sundar Pichais rise to fame in 90 seconds
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