
Sundar Pichai, born in 1972 in Madurai, India, is the CEO of Alphabet Inc. and Google. He grew up in a modest household, excelling academically and earning degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, an M.S. from Stanford, and an MBA from the Wharton School. Pichai joined Google in 2004, leading products like Chrome, Chrome OS, and Google Drive. His leadership style is known for being collaborative, calm, and visionary. In 2015, he became Google’s CEO and later Alphabet’s CEO in 2019. Pichai is celebrated for his strategic thinking, global perspective, and focus on innovation, AI, and sustainability initiatives.