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| Born | 1972 (age 52–53) Tamilnadu, India |
| Nationality | India |
| Alma mater | IIT, Stanford University, Wharton |
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.
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.