Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai ( full name as Pichai Sundararajan), is an Indian-American computer engineer, innovator, commonly known for his role as the Chief Executive Officer of Google and Alphabet as well as one of the main board of director of Alphabet. 
Before starting his career in Google, he served as an engineer and manager at the Applied Materials ( An American company specialized in providing manufacturing equipment, services and software to the semiconductor, display and other industries). Then he worked as a consultant for a management consulting form known as McKinsey & Company.
Early Life/ Family
Sundar Pichai was born in Madurai, an Indian city situated in the southern part of India ( Tamil Nadu) on 10th of June, 1972 to an General Electric company based senior electric engineer, Regunatha Pichai and Lakshmi Pichai, a stenographer.
Being brought up as a Madras native, Sundar along with his family resided in their small family home. At a young age itself, Pichai had nurtured a passion for technology and he was known for his extreme memory capability of remembering their telephone contact numbers.
After earning a degree in metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur along with a silver medal (M.S), he received a scholarship to attend the Stanford University.
He competed his MS from Stanford University and MBA from the University of Pennsylvania. He then worked engineer and manager at the Applied Materials and as a consultant for McKinsey & Company.
Career At Google
He joined Google Corporation on 2004 as a manager after his career at McKinsey and Company. He worked mainly on Google's client software products, such as Google Chrome and Chrome OS. He also was the driving force behind the creation of Google Drive. He focused on developing other applications such as Gmail and Google Maps.
He also was involved in the demonstration of Chromebook and announced the new video (media) format, WebM. His reputation kept on rising with his increasing years of service in the Google. He was considered as a potential front-runner for the designation of Microsoft CEO after the resignation of Steve Ballmer on August 2013.
On August 10,2015, he was selected as the new CEO of Google upon the significant restructuring at Google.
Awards And Honours
Padma Bhushan (2022)- Trade and Industry category