Sundar Pichai
Also known as sundarpichai, Pichai Sundararajan
At a glance
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- Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google and its parent Alphabet.
- He joined Google in 2004 and led product management for Chrome, ChromeOS and Google Drive.
- He added Android in 2013.
- He became Google's CEO in 2015 and Alphabet's CEO in December 2019.
Why it matters
- For anyone following Google, Search or Gemini: he runs the company and its parent.
Key facts
- Current role
- CEO of Alphabet and Google; Alphabet board member since 20171
- Born
- June 10, 1972, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India1
- Education
- B.Tech, IIT Kharagpur; MS, Stanford University; MBA, Wharton (University of Pennsylvania)1
- Before Google
- Engineering and product management at Applied Materials; consulting at McKinsey & Company1
- At Google
- Joined in 2004; led Chrome, ChromeOS and Google Drive; took on Android in March 20131
- Google CEO
- Named in August 2015; took over in October 2015 when Alphabet was formed1
- Alphabet CEO
- Since December 2019, replacing the setup of two CEOs and a president2
- Other boards
- Jive Software from 2011 to 2013; Magic Leap from 2014 to 20181
- Honours
- Padma Bhushan (2022)1
- Net worth
- About $1.6 billion (Forbes, February 2026)1
Roles
Leads
- AlphabetOrganization
CEO · since Dec 2019 source on Alphabet
- GoogleOrganization
CEO · since 2015 source on Google
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