The Indian is the new Googles CEO


India-born Sundar Pichai was named CEO of Google on Tuesday by the company's founders Larry Page and Sergei BrinIn course of a re-organization that created a mother company called ALPHABET

Pichai, 43, a Chennai native who went to IIT Kharagpur and later to Stanford and Wharton, will take charge of a slimmed down Google (quickly dubbed Google Minus) that Larry Page said will be stripped of companies "that are pretty far afield of our main Internet products," which will all go into Alphabet. Page will be CEO of Alphabet.
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 Chromeand Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. He went on to oversee the development of different apps like Gmail and Google Maps. On 19 November 2009, Pichai gave a demonstration of Chrome OS and the Chromebook was released for trial and testing in 2011 and released in public in 2012 .[On 20 May 2010, he announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google, and introduced the new video format WebM.

On 13 March 2013, Pichai added Android to the Google products he oversees. Android was formerly managed by Andy Rubin.He was rumored to be one of the contenders for the CEO position of Microsoft in 2014.
He serves as a Member of Board of Advisors at Ruba, Inc. He was a Director of Jive Software from April 2011. until 30 July 2013. Pichai is married to Anjali Pichai and has a daughter and a son.Pichai was appointed as CEO of Google on August 10, 2015[ after previously being appointed Product Chief by then-CEO Larry Pageon 24 October, 2014.

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