Overview

• Pichai’s parents sacrificed their life savings to send him from a cramped two-room apartment in Chennai to study in the United States.
• He earned a metallurgy degree at IIT Kharagpur before completing a master’s in engineering and materials science at Stanford and an MBA at Wharton.
• After joining Google in 2004, he developed the Google Toolbar and led the launch of Chrome in 2008, propelling him into senior leadership roles.
• He was appointed Google CEO in 2015 and took over as Alphabet CEO in 2019, consolidating control over both the search giant and its parent company.
• As CEO, he has directed major AI initiatives like Gemini, expanded voice recognition capabilities and overseen new hardware releases such as the Pixel smartphone.