Sunder Pichai

Sunder Pichai

He is a IIT Kharagpur alumnus who joined Google in 2004 and is now the appointed head of Google Inc.’s Android  business. Android  is the most widely used smartphone operating system in the world. Born in Chennai in 1972 Pichai did his schooling from padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan (PSBB) Chennai. Soon after his schooling he joined IIT Kharagpur. He did M.S. from Stanford University and MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar.

After completing his education he started working in engineering and product management at  Applied Material.He later joined in management consulting at McKinney & Company.

In Google 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 was largely responsible for Google Drive. Not only this he want in to supervising the development of different apps like Gmail and Google Maps. In 2010 he got noticed for being approached by Twitter to lead product after Jason Goldman, VP of product for Twitter left in December 2011. But Pichai decided to stay with Google.

In 2011, he become senior voice president of Google Chrome and Apps, Which includes the Chrome browser and operating system , Gmail Calendar, Docs, and Drive. Pichai has more then 15 year of experience developing high tech consumer and enterprise products. He serves as a Member of Board of Advisor at Ruba, Inc. He has been a Director of Jiva Software, since April 2011.

On 24^th October 2014 Sunder Pichai was appointed as Google’s new Product Chief by CEO Larry Page.

Praising Pichai’s accomplishments, through as blog post Google CEO Larry Page said “Sunder has a talented for creating products that are technically excellent yet easy to use and he loves a big bet. Take Chrome, for example. In 2008, people asked whether the world really needed another browser. Today chrome has hundreds of millions of happy  users and is growing fast thanks to its speed, simplicity and security. So while Andy’s a really hard act to follow, I know Sunder will do a tremendous job doubling down on Android as we work to push the ecosystem forward”