Sunder Pichai Biography

SUNDER PICHAI



Pichai was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India,[2] in a Tamil family to Lakshmi and Ragunatha Pichai.[12] 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.[13][14][15] Sundar grew up in a two-room apartment on 46th Street, 7th Avenue, in Ashok Nagar, Chennai.[16]
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.[19] 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,[20]where he was named a Siebel Scholar[21][22]and a Palmer Scholar, respectively.

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Pichai worked in engineering and product management at Applied Materials and in management consulting at McKinsey & Company.[23]
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[24] and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. He went on to oversee the development of different applications (apps) such as Gmail and Google Maps.[25][26] On 19 November 2009, Pichai gave a demonstration of Chrome OS and the Chromebook was released for trial and testing in 2011, and released to the public in 2012.[27]On 20 May 2010, he announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google, and introduced the new video format, WebM.[28]
On 13 March 2013, Pichai added Android to the list of Google products he oversees. Android was formerly managed by Andy Rubin.[29] He was a director of Jive Softwarefrom April 2011 to 30 July 2013.[30][31][32]Pichai was selected to become the next CEO of Google on 10 August 2015[10] after previously being appointed Product Chief by CEO, Larry Page. On 24 October 2015, 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][32][33]
Pichai had been suggested as a contender for Microsoft's CEO in 2014, a position that was eventually given to Satya Nadella.[34][35]

Personal life

Pichai is married to Anjali Pichai, a chemical engineer, a classmate at IIT Kharagpur.[8][36]They have two children, and live in Los Altos Hills, in a home designed by Robert Swatt of Swatt Miers.[37][38]

Income

Google apparently pays Sundar a very generous salary of Rs 335 crore, $50 million per annum. He has also received Google shares worth £142 million along with shares worth £173 million in Google's parent company, Alphabet. CEO Pichai will be entitled to claim these shares in 2018.

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