Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai

Pichai Sundararajan, known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian-American business executive. He is the chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google. In August 2017, he drew publicity for firing a Google employee who wrote a ten-page manifesto criticizing the company’s diversity policies.

About Sundar Pichai in brief

Summary Sundar PichaiPichai Sundararajan, known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian-American business executive. He is the chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google. He was selected to become the next CEO of Google on August 10, 2015 after previously being appointed Product Chief by CEO, Larry Page. In August 2017, he drew publicity for firing a Google employee who wrote a ten-page manifesto criticizing the company’s diversity policies and arguing that men and women differ in causes and.. these differences may explain why the company doesn’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership. He has been included in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020.

Picha had been suggested as a contender for Microsoft’s CEO in 2014, a position that was eventually given to Satya Nadella. He holds an M. S. from Stanford University in materials science 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. He earned his degree from IIT Kharagpur in metallurgical engineering and is a distinguished alumnus from that institution. He grew up in a two-room apartment in Ashok Nagar, Chennai and had a Hindu upbringing. He worked in engineering and product management at Applied Materials and in management consulting at McKinsey & Company.