Google chief executive officer Sundar Pichai will replace company co-founder Larry Page as CEO of parent Alphabet, the company has said.
10 facts about Sundar Pichai
- Sundar Pichai was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India on June 10, 1972
- He is an alumnus of Wharton business school, Stanford University and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- Mr Pichai Worked at consultant McKinsey & Co before Google
- He was first interviewed at Google on April 1, 2004, the same day that the company launched Gmail
- He is widely credited for making the Google Chrome browser
- Sundar Pichai took over the Android business from that group's founder, Andy Rubin. He managed the market leading smartphone operating system globally and a year after taking over Android, Google shipped one billion devices
- Before taking over as CEO, Pichai was in charge of product and engineering at Google's Internet businesses
- He was appointed CEO of Google in November 2015
- Sundar Pichai was widely seen as a potential successor to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer before Satya Nadella took over in February 2014
- He loves to play chess
