10 Famous Indians in Silicon Valley

By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 11 December 2012, 00:39 IST
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Sundar Pichai

Pichai is an Indian-American computer engineer, who currently serves the post of Senior Vice President of Google chrome. He is the person who gave the first demonstration of Google Chrome OS in the year 2009.

Pichai directs the innovation team which concentrates fully on Google's search products, which includes Google Toolbar, Chrome, Desktop Search, Gadgets, Google Pack, Google Gears, Firefox extensions and Mac products.

Many prominent firms including Twitter have tried to make Pichai a part of their company, but Google rewarded him with an amount of $50 million to stop him from quitting. He has earlier worked for 'Mc Kinsey & Company' and 'Applied Materials' before joining Google in the year 2004

Sundar Pichai completed his engineering from IIT Kharagpur and he holds an MS and MBA from Stanford University and Wharton school respectively.

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