Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google, and serves on Alphabet’s Board of Directors. Under his leadership, Google has been focused on developing products and services, powered by the latest advances in AI.

Pichai began his career as a materials engineer. Following a short stint at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., he joined Google in 2004, where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. He went on to oversee the development of different apps like Gmail and Google Maps. In 2010, he announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google and introduced the new video format WebM. The Chromebook was released in 2012. In 2013, Pichai added Android to the list of Google products that he oversaw.

On October 24, 2015, Pichai stepped into the role of CEO at Google as part of the restructuring process that made Alphabet into Google's parent company. He was appointed to the Alphabet Board of Directors in 2017 and in December 2019, he additionally became CEO of Alphabet.

Pichai grew up in Chennai, India. He received his bachelor's degree in technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and was awarded an Institute Silver Medal. He holds an MS from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named a Siebel Scholar. Pichai was included in TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People list in 2016 and 2020.