Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet

Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet

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Sundar Pichai joined Google in 2004, led Chrome, ChromeOS and Google Drive, became Google's CEO in 2015 and Alphabet's CEO in 2019.

About Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet

Pichai Sundararajan (born June 10, 1972), better known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian-American business executive who has been CEO of Google since 2015 and CEO of its parent company Alphabet Inc. since 2019. As of February 2026 his net worth is estimated at US$1.6 billion. Pichai was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, to a Tamil Hindu family; his mother, Lakshmi, was a stenographer and his father, Regunatha Pichai, an electrical engineer at the British conglomerate GEC. He completed school in Chennai, finished Class XII at Vana Vani school at IIT Madras, and earned a B.Tech in metallurgical engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1993. He holds an MS in materials science and engineering from Stanford and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar. He began as a materials engineer at Applied Materials and then worked at McKinsey & Company before joining Google in 2004. There he led product management and innovation for a suite of client software products including Google Chrome and ChromeOS, was largely responsible for Google Drive, and oversaw the development of applications including Gmail and Google Maps. Sources: English Wikipedia (Sundar Pichai, accessed September 2026).

Basic Information

CEO, Google and Alphabet Inc.

Company Details

Google / Alphabet Inc.

Internet Search, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence