IIT-KGP '93 graduate Sundar Pichai to take over as CEO of Alphabet
The New York Times (December 4, 2019)
Factbox: New Alphabet Chief Started at Google, Made Name with Android
(Reuters)-Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai ('93) will replace company co-founder Larry Page as CEO of parent Alphabet Inc, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday (December 3, 2019).
Below are some key facts about Pichai:
--Born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India on June 10, 1972
--An alumnus of Wharton business school, Stanford University, and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur ('93)
--Worked at consultant McKinsey & Co before Google
--First interviewed at Google on April 1, 2004, the same day that the company launched Gmail
--Widely credited for making the Google Chrome browser
--Pichai took over Android business from that group's founder, Andy Rubin, managing the market leading smartphone operating system globally
--A year after Pichai took over Android, Google shipped 1 billion devices
--Prior to taking over as CEO, Pichai was in charge of product and engineering at Google's Internet businesses
--Appointed CEO of Google in August 2015
--Was widely seen as a potential successor to Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer before Satya Nadella took over in February 2014
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