New Google CEO Sundar Pichai is loved by all

Indian techies often change their names when they start working in the US and so did P. Sundararajan, but not all become Sundar Pichai.

The 43-year-old new CEO, who expanded his initials and shortened his name after shifting to the US, began his career with Google in 2004 as a “low-key” manager and colleagues say there is no single Googler who did not like him.

From working on the Google toolbar, to the very successful Chrome browser, Mr Pichai, an IIT-Kharagpur graduate became a clear number-two to the then CEO Larry Page last year. While at Google, he also refused a job offer from Twitter, the popular social media platform which was on Tuesday flooded with posts to congratulate him.

Born and raised in Chennai, Mr Pichai did B.Tech from IIT-Kharagpur and then went on to pursue MS from Stanford University, and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania and joined Google in 2004.