When Sundar Pichai joined Google Inc. GOOG 4.27 % in 2004, he seemed an unlikely CEO candidate: a semiconductor engineer with a business degree assigned to manage the Google Toolbar, software that let Web surfers quickly search with Google on
As part of a corporate reshuffle announced Monday, Sundar Pichai has been named the CEO of Google as it becomes a subsidiary of a new company called Alphabet. It's yet another step up for the 43-year-old executive who has been on a meteoric rise
Sundar Pichai, Google Senior Vice President of Android, Chrome and Google Apps, is now officially the new CEO at the search company, which itself has now become a subsidiary of a bigger company called Alphabet, Inc.
Pichai's parents RS Pichai and Lakshmi Pichai, are in the US. They called relatives back home in Chennai, on Tuesday morning, to deliver the good news. RS Pichai, Sundar's father, had worked with the English Electric Company of India, which later
case in point, Google Plus, a social network which by all accounts failed miserably, and wasn't great for their brand. Buried lede: Google, the core search business that started it all, will now have a new CEO: Sundar Pichai.