Misplaced Pages

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Cydebot (talk | contribs) at 23:44, 25 June 2011 (Robot - Moving category Indian immigrants to the United States to Category: Indian emigrants to the United States per CFD at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 June 13.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Sundar Pichai (Template:Lang-ta, born 1972) is an Indian American computer engineer. He is currently the senior vice president of Chrome at Google Inc..

Early life

Sundar Pichai received a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and was awarded an Institute Silver Medal. He holds an M.S. from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar.

Career

Before joining Google, Pichai held various engineering and product management positions at Applied Materials, and was also a management consultant with McKinsey & Company for a variety of software and semiconductor clients.

Google

Pichai joined Google in 2004 where he leads the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS.

On November 19, 2009, Pichai a gave demonstration of the Google Chrome OS. On May 20, 2010 he open-sourced the new video codec VP8 and introduced the new video format WebM to the public.

Personal life

Sundar Pichai is married and has a daughter and a son. He is also an avid chess player.

References

1. Indian American whizkid behind Google Chrome

Template:Persondata

• Living people
• Google employees
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur alumni
• Indian emigrants to the United States
• Stanford University alumni
• University of Pennsylvania alumni
• Indian engineers
• 1972 births