Google announces its new CEO as Sundar pichai ON 10 august 2015 Google announces Sundar Pichai as the new CEO on August 10, 2015. Sundar pichai is from chennai, Tamil Nadu and he born on 12 July 1972 and his full name is Pichai Sundararajan.
He completed his schoolings in Chennai. Later he completed his graduation in Metallurgical engineering in IIT Kharagpur. His professors recommended him to do Doctor of Philosophy, but he had the ambition of doing MS and MBA degrees.
Sundar pichai completed his post-graduation from Standford University in the field of Material science and engineering and MBA in Wharton school of the university of Pennsylvania. Pichai went to management consulting with Mckinsey & company.
Pichai started working Google from 2004 where he led product management and innovation efforts for Google client software products including Google chrome. He went ahead to supervise the improvement of diverse applications like Gmail, Google drive and Google Maps.
On 19 November 2009 Pichai gave a testament of chrome OS. The chromebook was discharged for trial and testing in 2011 and discharged open in 2012.
On 20 May 2010 he announced the new video format WebM. It is supported by vp8 and in 2013 it was upgraded to vp9. WebM is a video format and its file extension is .webm.
Later on 13 march 2013 Google added Android to its items.
In 2011, Pichai drew consideration when he was considered to lead item and supplant Jason Goldman at Twitter. But he decided to stay with Google.
On 10 august 2015 Google announced Sundar pichai as its new Chief executive officer. Google going to turn into another holding organization called Alphabet. Google will become an auxiliary of a new company Alphabet.
Page says that “Google is working well, but to make it cleaner and accountable we are starting our new company”.
Page says “when pichai took responsibility of product and engineering for internet business me and sergey have been elevated about his dedication to the company.
Larry page former CEO of Google will take over as CEO of Alphabet. Pichai will take control over Google search, Google Ads, Maps, Play store, Android and You Tube which was controlled by Larry page.
Pichai colleague Hooft said” There are lots of smart workers in Google, but in terms of consumer product Pichai worked on so far with dedication” he added “I question they would be as effective without Sundar arriving.”
