Alphabet: Sundar Pichai takes over from Google co-founders as CEO
Google chief Sundar Pichai was named Chief Executive of parent company Alphabet on Tuesday, during a reshuffle of executives.
Pichai will take over at Alphabet from Larry Page, a co-founder of Google. Alphabet was created through a corporate restructuring of the empire in 2015.
Incoming Alphabet chief, Sundar Pichai, was lauded for his work as Google CEO
Google co-founder Sergey Brin — who was Alphabet’s president until Tuesday’s announcement — and Page “will continue their involvement as co-founders, shareholders and members of Alphabet’s board of directors,” the company said.
Fleeing the nest
They announced the news in a Google blog post, stating the company has “evolved and matured” since the pair founded it in 1998.
“Today, in 2019, if the company was a person, it would be a young adult of 21 and it would be time to leave the roost,” they said.
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Satya Nadella
Born in Hyderabad, India, Satya Narayana Nadella became the CEO of the US technology giant Microsoft in early 2014. After completing his Bachelor’s in India, he went to the US to pursue higher education in Computer Science. Nadella had worked with Sun Microsystems before joining Microsoft in 1992.
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Sundar Pichai
An Indian Institute of Technology alumnus, Pichai is the new CEO of Internet giant Google. The Chennai-born soft-spoken Pichai joined the company in 2004. Larry Page, one of Google’s two founders, said this in his recent blog about Pichai: “I feel very fortunate to have someone as talented as he is to run the slightly slimmed down Google.”
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Both founders will remain on the board, promising an active role, and praised incoming CEO of Pichai for his leadership of Google.
According to an Alphabet SEC filing in April, Page holds 42.9% of the company’s Class B shares and 26.1% of its voting power. Brin holds 41.3% of the Class B shares and 25.2% of the voting power.
jsi/aw (AP, AFP)
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