Google CEO Sundar Pichai will head parent company Alphabet: Quick facts about him

Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai will replace company co-founder Larry Page as CEO of parent Alphabet Inc, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. Below are some key facts about Pichai: * Born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India on 10 June 1972 * An alumnus of Wharton business school, Stanford University and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur * Worked at consultant McKinsey & Co before Google * First interviewed at Google on 1 April 2004, the same day that the company launched Gmail [caption id=“attachment_7736241” align=“alignnone” width=“1024”] Sundar Pichai. Image: Reuters[/caption] * Widely credited for making the Google Chrome browser * Pichai took over Android business from that group’s founder, Andy Rubin, managing the market-leading smartphone operating system globally * A year after taking over Android, Google shipped 1 billion devices * Prior to taking over as CEO, Pichai was in charge of product and engineering at Google’s Internet businesses * Appointed CEO of Google in November 2015 * Was widely seen as a potential successor to Microsoft Crop CEO Steve Ballmer before Satya Nadella took over in February 2014 * Loves to play chess