Google Names Sundar Pichai CEO, Reorganizes Under Alphabet Umbrella

From DailyTech: Sundar Pichai is the new CEO of Google Inc. (GOOG). The maker of the world's most used consumer email webclient, the most used internet search engine, and the world's most used mobile operating system (Android) announced on Monday that CEO Larry Page would be changing roles (more on that later) after serving just four years in his second stint as CEO of Google.

Page and cofounder Sergey Brin colaunched the company's central search engine back in 1996 while at Stanford University. After getting venture capital to venturize the search portal -- then called "BackRub" -- Page became CEO, serving until 2001. Google's second CEO -- Eric Schmidt -- joined the company in 2001, after being lured away from the CEO spot at networking giant Novell. While Schmidt was not a Stanford Univ. alum., he did teach graduate business courses at the Californian college.

Pichai, Google's third CEO, is 43 years old. He was born in the city of Chennai, India, a metropolis that is home to over 4 million. Chennai lies in the Tamil Naidu province of India, located on the eastern half of the nation's southern tip [source]. He grew up immersed in technology thanks to his father, who was an electrical engineer. His mother worked as a stenographer.

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