Who is Sundar Pichai? All you need to know

Pichai is said to have improved Google's ties with Samsung among other things

Pichai Sundararajan, aka Sundar Pichai, has been appointed the new CEO of Google amid an operational overhaul by the company.

In a move to focus on its more creative and ambitious projects, Google has created a holding company called Alphabet. Under the new corporate structure, the Google unit will encompass the core search engine as well Google Maps and YouTube.

• Pichai most recently served as the company's senior vice president of products. Here’s what you didn’t know about Pichai.
• Took over Android division in 2013, is credited with making it collaborative with Google’s other businesses
• Is said to have bettered Google’s ties with key partners like Samsung
• Was also the mover behind setting Chrome up as the browser to beat
• Was rumoured to be a candidate for the top job at Microsoft, which went to another Indian-origin whiz, Satya Nadella
• Was born in Chennai, where his father was an engineer and his mother was a stenographer, according to Businessweek magazine
• Went to IIT-Kharagpur before doing an MS from Stanford University and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
• Worked at Applied Materials and McKinsey before joining Google in 2004

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