Sundar Pichai: All about his education, salary, more

Sundar Pichai

Indian-origin CEO of Alphabet Inc and Google, Sundar Pichai is currently in the news. Let's take a look at his education, salary, family, and more here.

Born in India

The Indian-American executive was born on June 10, 1972 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. Lakshmi, his mother, was a stenographer, while his father, Regunatha Pichai, worked at GEC as an electrical engineer.

His full name

While he is better known as Sundar Pichai, the Google CEO's full name is Pichai Sundararajan.

Education

Sundar Pichai completed his schooling from Jawahar Vidyalaya Senior Secondary School in Chennai, and Class XII from Vana Vani school. He then studied earned metallurgical engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

Foreign education

It was followed by an M.S. in materials science and engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Career

Pichai worked at Applied Materials and at McKinsey & Company for a few months. In 2004, he joined Google where he worked and headed various projects. In October 2015, he was appointed as Google's CEO after the completion of Alphabet Inc, which includes Google. In 2017, he was made one of Alphabet's Board of Directors.

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Salary and net worth

As per reports in 2022, Pichai received a total compensation of $226 million! Pichai's net worth is said to be approximately $1.66 billion.

Most influential person

Sundar Pichai has been named in TIME's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world twice-- in 2016 and 2020.

Personal life

Sundar Pichai is married to Anjali Pichai, a chemical engineer whom he met at IIT Kharagpur. Together they have two children: Kavya Pichai and Kiran Pichai.

Controversy

Recently, Google's AI chatbox called Gemini is being accused by many for being racist. This has sparked a controversy, with many people wanting Sundar Pichai to resign as the CEO of Google.

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