{"id":6186,"date":"2022-10-20T14:59:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T14:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wordlift.it\/io\/?p=6186"},"modified":"2022-10-20T14:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T14:59:54","slug":"alphabet-inc-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wordlift.it\/io\/alphabet-inc-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet Inc. CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><span id=\"annotation-b0b555e6-bc8d-4a89-9413-d72bd1355914\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-person\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01944\/entity\/pichai-sundararajan\">Pichai Sundararajan<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;(born June 10, 1972<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundar_Pichai#cite_note-britannica-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundar_Pichai#cite_note-:1-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundar_Pichai#cite_note-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup>), better known as&nbsp;<strong><span id=\"annotation-f9721da0-3516-4d64-a793-2e9d54264a35\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-person\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01944\/entity\/pichai-sundararajan\">Sundar Pichai<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/English\">\/\u02c8s\u028and\u0251\u02d0r&nbsp;p\u026a\u02c8t\u0283a\u026a\/<\/a>), is an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian-American\">Indian-American<\/a>&nbsp;business executive.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundar_Pichai#cite_note-6\">[6]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;He is the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chief_executive_officer\">chief executive officer<\/a>&nbsp;(CEO) of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alphabet_Inc.\">Alphabet Inc.<\/a>&nbsp;and its subsidiary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google\">Google<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundar_Pichai#cite_note-7\">[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madurai\">Madurai<\/a>, India,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundar_Pichai#cite_note-:1-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;Pichai earned his degree from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IIT_Kharagpur\">IIT Kharagpur<\/a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metallurgical_engineering\">metallurgical engineering<\/a>. Moving to the United States, he attained an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Master_of_Science\">M.S.<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanford_University\">Stanford University<\/a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Materials_science\">materials science<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Engineering\">engineering<\/a>&nbsp;and further attained an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MBA\">MBA<\/a>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wharton_School_of_the_University_of_Pennsylvania\">Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania<\/a>, where he was named a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siebel_Scholars\">Siebel Scholar<\/a>&nbsp;and a Palmer Scholar, respectively.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundar_Pichai#cite_note-8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pichai began his career as a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Materials_engineer\">materials engineer<\/a>. Following a short stint at the management consulting firm&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McKinsey_%26_Co.\">McKinsey &amp; Co.<\/a>, Pichai joined Google in 2004,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundar_Pichai#cite_note-9\">[9]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google&#8217;s client software products, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Chrome\">Google Chrome<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chrome_OS\">Chrome OS<\/a>, as well as being largely responsible for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Drive\">Google Drive<\/a>. In addition, he went on to oversee the development of other applications such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gmail\">Gmail<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Maps\">Google Maps<\/a>. In 2010, Pichai also announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VP8\">VP8<\/a>&nbsp;by Google and introduced the new video format,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WebM\">WebM<\/a>. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chromebook\">Chromebook<\/a>&nbsp;was released in 2012. In 2013, Pichai added&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Android_(operating_system)\">Android<\/a>&nbsp;to the list of Google products that he oversaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pichai was selected to become the next CEO of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google\">Google<\/a>&nbsp;on August 10, 2015, after previously being appointed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chief_Product_Officer\">Product Chief<\/a>&nbsp;by CEO&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larry_Page\">Larry Page<\/a>. On October 24, 2015, he stepped into the new position at the completion of the formation of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alphabet_Inc\">Alphabet Inc<\/a>., the new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holding_company\">holding company<\/a>&nbsp;for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google\">Google<\/a>&nbsp;company family. He was appointed to the Alphabet Board of Directors in 2017.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundar_Pichai#cite_note-10\">[10]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pichai was included in&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time_(magazine)\">Time<\/a><\/em>&#8216;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time_100\">annual list of the 100 most influential people<\/a>&nbsp;in 2016<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundar_Pichai#cite_note-11\">[11]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;and 2020.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundar_Pichai#cite_note-12\">[12]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pichai Sundararajan&nbsp;(born June 10, 1972[1][4][5]), better known as&nbsp;Sundar Pichai&nbsp;(\/\u02c8s\u028and\u0251\u02d0r&nbsp;p\u026a\u02c8t\u0283a\u026a\/), is an&nbsp;Indian-American&nbsp;business executive.[6]&nbsp;He is the&nbsp;chief executive officer&nbsp;(CEO) of&nbsp;Alphabet Inc.&nbsp;and its subsidiary&nbsp;Google.[7] Born in&nbsp;Madurai, India,[4]&nbsp;Pichai earned his degree from&nbsp;IIT Kharagpur&nbsp;in&nbsp;metallurgical engineering. Moving to the United States, he attained an&nbsp;M.S.&nbsp;from&nbsp;Stanford University&nbsp;in&nbsp;materials science&nbsp;and&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;and further attained an&nbsp;MBA&nbsp;from the&nbsp;Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named a&nbsp;Siebel Scholar&nbsp;and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wl_entities_gutenberg":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wl_entity_type":[7],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alphabet Inc. 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