Sundar Pichai

     Google surprised the world by announcing the appointment of a new CEO on 10thAugust 2015. It became a proud moment for the Indian community to see an Indian-born make it to the list of the CEOs in the Tech. Industry. Sundar Pichai, a name now well-known across the globe has had his share of struggle before making it to the top.

     Pichai Sundararajan, more commonly known to us as Sundar Pichai was born in Madurai, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, on July 12, 1972. He belongs to a lower middle-class family and had never experienced the luxury of watching television or travelling by car in his childhood.

     His father Raghunath Pichai  worked as an Electrical Engineer in General Electric in Chennai and therefore, the family lived in the city, at Ashok Nagar. His father was the manager of a factory that made components for electrical objects. The stories of the work challenges faced by his father always inspired Pichai.

     Pichai saw technology in his hands at the age of 12 when his father bought a land line phone for the house. He had an extraordinary skill of memorising and remembering numbers.

     Pichai graduated in Metallurgical Engineering  from IIT Kharagpur. He completed his MS (Masters in Science) in Material sciences and Engineering from Stanford University and later  went on to complete an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

     He joined Google in 2004 where he was given the responsibility of product development new idea generation. He played an important role in the development of Google Chrome, Chrome OS and Google Drive etc.

     Pichai is the man responsible for driving Google’s Chrome OS and browser to the fore.  He was appointed as VP of product development in 2008. He introduced Chrome browser to the world. Soon it was followed by Chrome OS in 2009. Pichai came more into the public limelight at Google presentations from 2008 and very soon became a well-known face of Google. He was the Senior VP of Chrome and apps by 2012.

     It was in 2013 that Pichai became a well-known personality worldwide. He stepped into the shoes of Andy Rubin as the overseer of all Android related products, almost after a decade at Google.

     In 2015, Sundar was announced to be the new CEO of Google as their well-known leader, Larry Page was retiring from google to take up the reigns at Alphabet, Inc. their new holding company.

      Sundar Pichai married his longtime girlfriend, Anjali Pichai . They were classmates when they studied together in IIT Kharagpur.

      They have bought a house in Brooklyn, New York for $6.8 million. As he is right now a citizen of US, he resides there with his entire family.
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