Google’s New Product Chief is Sundar Pichai, India born

India-born Sundar Pichai is Google’s new product chief as reported by a technology Magazine, Sundar Pichai is the Google’s new product chief. Sundar Pichai is India born & was till now in charge of Android, Chrome & Google Apps. This move is a part of restructuring Google’s management. Pichai now will have research, search, maps, Google+, commerce, ad products & infrastructure wings in his horizon. Pichai, Google’s new product chief will now also have access to manage business & operations which include: access and energy (a new unit run by Craig Barratt), Nest, Calico, Google X, corporate development, legal, finance and business (including ad sales).

And the six executive in charge of newly added product areas will now report to Pichai, Google product chief instead of reporting directly to Lary Page.  And “The move seems born of Page’s concern – which is not new – that Google will become less innovative as it ages,” the magazine said. And Larry Page in a memo to staff noted that these changes will help him to focus & make him more attentive on existing & new products.

But YouTube was left from this list of centralization & this large independent video unit’s CEO Susan Wojcicki as earlier will report Page. This move from any angle is not for promoting Pichai, Google’s new product chief but instead to Page. But Pichai from the starting of managing Chrome he was well recognized even in the outside circle of Google. Many years ago itself Twitter has made trials to recruit Pichai for its key product role. Even Pichai’s name has been in the search list of new CEO for Microsoft before the episode of finalization of India-born company person Satya Nadella.

Pichai belongs to southern state, Tamilnadu in India. He was born in Chennai in 1972. He joined Google in 2004. Pichai worked at Applied Materials & at Mckinsey & co in the past years. He is a prodigy of Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University & the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Venture capitalist Om Malik, a former blogger, tweeted on the news of Sundar Pichai became the Google’s new product chief: “Proof nice guys can win.”

About Sundar Pichai (Source: Wikipedia)

Pichai Sundararajan, better known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian businessman and a Senior Vice President at Google, where he oversees Android, Chrome, Google Apps, search, research, maps, commerce, ads, infrastructure, and Google+. Born in Chennai, Tamilnadu, he did his early schooling in Jawahar Vidyalaya Ashok Nagar Chennai. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering degree from IIT- Kharagpur. He holds an M.S. from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar. Pichai worked in engineering and product management at Applied Materials and in management consulting at McKinsey & Company. Know more on Wikipedia.

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