Working His Way Up The Ladder
Pichai worked in engineering and product management at Applied Materials and in management consulting at McKinsey & Company. He joined Google in 2004, where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a host of Google’s client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS, as well as being generally responsible for Google Drive. He went on to supervise the development of different apps like Gmail and Google Maps.
On 19 November, 2009, Pichai gave a demonstration of Chrome OS and the Chromebook was released for trial and testing in 2011 and released to the public in 2012. On 20 May 2010, he declared the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google, and introduced the new video format WebM. On 13 March 2013, Pichai added Android to the Google products he oversees.
He was a director of Jive Software from April 2011 to 30 July 2013. Pichai was appointed as the next CEO of Google on 10 August 2015 after previously being declared Product Chief by the outgoing CEO Larry Page on 24 October 2014. He will take up the new position on completion of the formation of Alphabet Inc., the new conglomerate for the Google Company family.
