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Google CEO Sundar Pichai will head parent company Alphabet: Quick facts about him

Sundar Pichai first interviewed in Google in April 2004 and it was the same day that the company launched Gmail.

|Dec 04, 2019, 07:46:28 IST

Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai will replace company co-founder Larry Page as CEO of parent Alphabet Inc, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.Below are some key facts about Pichai:* Born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India on 10 June 1972* An alumnus of Wharton business school, Stanford University and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur* Worked at consultant McKinsey & Co before Google* First interviewed at Google on 1 April 2004, the same day that the company launched Gmail[caption id="attachment_7736241" align="alignnone" width="1024"]

Sundar Pichai. Image: Reuters[/caption]* Widely credited for making the Google Chrome browser* Pichai took over Android business from that group's founder, Andy Rubin, managing the market-leading smartphone operating system globally* A year after taking over Android, Google shipped 1 billion devices* Prior to taking over as CEO, Pichai was in charge of product and engineering at Google's Internet businesses* Appointed CEO of Google in November 2015* Was widely seen as a potential successor to Microsoft Crop CEO Steve Ballmer before Satya Nadella took over in February 2014* Loves to play chess

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