
Pichai Sundararajan better known as Sundar Picha, is an Indian-American business executive. [6] He serves as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Alphabet Inc.'s subsidiary Google. Born in Madurai, India.[4] Pichai graduated from IIT Kharagpur with a degree in metallurgical engineering. In the United States, he attained an M.S. from Stanford University in materials science and engineering and further attained an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar, respectively.Pchai began his career as a materials engineer. After a brief period with the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., Pichai joined Google in 2004 where he directed the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software, including Google Chrome as well as ChromeOS as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. He also oversees the creation of Google Maps, Gmail, and other applications. In the year 2010, Pichai also revealed the open-sourcing for the new codec for video VP8 by Google and unveiled the new video format, WebM. The Chromebook was launched in 2012. In 2013, Pichai added Android to the catalog of Google products that he oversaw.
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