Sundar Pichai is an Indian American

Indian American

Indian Americans are Americans whose ancestral roots lie in India. The U.S. Census Bureau popularized the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Indigenous peoples of the Americas who are commonly referred to as American Indians.-The term: Indian:...

 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

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is an autonomous engineering, technology and management oriented institute of higher education established by the government of India in 1951...

 and was awarded an Institute Silver Medal. He was a resident of Nehru Hall in the PAN loop. He holds an M.S. from Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 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

McKinsey & Company

McKinsey & Company, Inc. is a global management consulting firm that focuses on solving issues of concern to senior management. McKinsey serves as an adviser to many businesses, governments, and institutions...

 for a variety of software and semiconductor clients.

Google

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

Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or...

 and Chrome OS.

On November 19, 2009, Pichai gave a demonstration of the Google Chrome OS

Google Chrome OS

Google Chrome OS is a Linux-based operating system designed by Google to work exclusively with web applications. Google announced the operating system on July 7, 2009 and made it an open source project, called Chromium OS, that November....

. On May 20, 2010 he open-sourced the new video codec VP8

VP8

VP8 is an open video compression format released by Google, originally created by On2 Technologies.After purchasing On2 Technologies in early 2010, Google has provided an irrevocable patent promise for underlying patents for the VP8 format, and released a bitstream format specification under a...

 and introduced the new video format WebM

WebM

WebM is an audio-video format designed to provide a royalty-free, open video compression format for use with HTML5 video. The project's development is sponsored by Google....

 to the public.

Many Companies have tried to woo Sundar including Twitter, Inc

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

, but Google reportedly awarded him $50 million to keep him from leaving Google.

He also serves as a Member of Board of Advisors at Ruba, Inc.

He has been a Director of Jive Software, since April 2011.

Personal life

Sundar Pichai is married and has a daughter and a son. He is also an avid chess player.