Sundar Pichai Chief Executive Officer of Alphabet
Sundararajan Pichai was born on 10 June 1972 in Chennai, India. is an Indian-American business executive. That Alphabet Inc. and is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its subsidiary company Google. Pichai earned a degree in metallurgical engineering from IIT Kharagpur. After moving to the United States, he received his MS in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University and further an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named a Siebel Scholar.
Early life and education
Pichai's mother, Lakshmi, was a stenographer, and his father, Raghunath Pichai, was an electrical engineer in the British conglomerate GEC. His father also owned a manufacturing plant that produced electrical components. Pichai grew up in a two-room apartment in Ashok Nagar, Chennai and had a Hindu upbringing. Pichai completed his schooling at Jawahar Vidyalaya Senior Secondary School, Ashok Nagar, a Central Board of Secondary Education school in Chennai, and completed his Class XII from Vana Vani School, IIT Madras. He holds a degree in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and is a distinguished alumnus of that institute. He is an M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and Palmer Scholar, respectively.
Pichai's Career Beginning
Pichai started his career as a material engineer. After a short stint at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Pichai joined Google in 2004 where he led product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS as well as are largely responsible for Google Drive. Because he oversaw the development of other applications such as Gmail and Google Maps. On 19 November 2009, Pichai unveiled Chrome OS; The Chromebook was released in 2011 for testing and testing, and was released to the public in 2012. On 20 May 2010, they announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google and the introduction of a new video format, WebM. On March 13, 2013, Pichai added Android to the list of Google products he visited. Android was previously managed by Andy Rubin. He was the director of Jive Software from April 2011 to July 30, 2013. Pichai was selected to become Google's next CEO on August 10, 2015, after previously being appointed head of product by CEO Larry Page. . On 24 October 2015, he joined the Google company family, Alphabet Inc. created a new holding company to step into the new position upon completion of the formation. Pichai was suggested as a contender for CEO of Microsoft in 2014; In August 2017, Pichai campaigned for the sacking of a Google employee who wrote a ten-page manifesto criticizing the company's diversity policies. and argued that "the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women is due to biological factors." And... these differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in technology and leadership. Pichai told Google employees that the manifesto raised several issues that could be debated. "To suggest that a group of our colleagues have qualities that make them biologically less suited for work that is invasive and not suitable," a memo said. In December 2017, Pichai was a speaker at the 2008 World Internet Conference in China, where H.E. Said that "Google does a lot of work to help Chinese companies. There are many small and medium-sized businesses in China that sell their products to many people outside of China." Take advantage of Google. outside China. In December 2019, Pichai became the CEO of Alphabet Inc. In December 2020, at the Singapore Fintech Festival, Pichai gave a speech emphasizing the inclusive digital economy.
"The coronavirus outbreak has sped up the adoption of digital tools and trends by years........Southeast Asia's Internet economy is currently on the verge of a massive transformation......more than 40 million people in the region connected to the Internet for the first time in 2020 - four times as many as the year before......while Covid has accelerated the use of digital tools, it's also exposed how many people are still left behind......some 1.7 billion people around the world are still unbanked, a huge portion of African households do not have access to broadband and millions of women entrepreneurs lack the same access to opportunity as their male counterparts".
Pichai said at the conclusion of his speech,
"Our goal for the post-Covid world is to ensure the benefits of technology can be shared, as widely and equitably as possible. If we can do that, 2020 will be remembered not as the end of the world, but the beginning of a world that works better for everyone".
What is Sundar Pichai salary per month
Prior
to becoming CEO of Alphabet, Pichai's base salary was about $6.5 lakh
(roughly Rs 4.8 crore) in 2019. All Other Compensation in 2019 was close
to $3.3 million. Pichai, as CEO of Alphabet and Google, was also
granted $240 million stock package in 2019. The stock options, as per
the proxy filing, will vest in 2023.
Personal life
Pichai is married to Anjali Pichai and has two children Kavya Pichai,Kiran Pichai. His recreational interests include cricket and football.
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