<div align="justify">Google's India-born CEO Sundar Pichai has been appointed to the board of directors of Alphabet, the search giant's parent company has said.<div align="justify"><br />"Sundar has been doing a great job as Google's CEO, driving strong growth, partnerships, and tremendous product innovation. I really enjoy working with him and I am excited that he is joining the Alphabet board," Larry Page, CEO of California-based US multinational conglomerate Alphabet, said in a statement yesterday.<br /><br />A long-time Google employee, 45-year-old Pichai, an IIT Kharagpur alumnus born in Chennai, has been leading the company for the past two years.<br /><br />As Google's Chief Executive Officer, he is responsible for Google's product development and technology strategy, as well as the company's day-to-day-operations.<br /><br />Pichai joined Google in 2004 and helped lead the development of key consumer products which are now used by over a billion people.<br /><br />In 2014, he took over product, engineering, and research efforts for all of Google's products and platforms.<br /><br />After years of working closely with Google's co-founders, Page and Sergey Brin, he became Google's CEO in August 2015.<br /><br />Under Pichai, Google has boosted sales from its core advertising and YouTube business, while also investing in machine learning, hardware and cloud computing. <br /></div></div>
<div align="justify">Google's India-born CEO Sundar Pichai has been appointed to the board of directors of Alphabet, the search giant's parent company has said.<div align="justify"><br />"Sundar has been doing a great job as Google's CEO, driving strong growth, partnerships, and tremendous product innovation. I really enjoy working with him and I am excited that he is joining the Alphabet board," Larry Page, CEO of California-based US multinational conglomerate Alphabet, said in a statement yesterday.<br /><br />A long-time Google employee, 45-year-old Pichai, an IIT Kharagpur alumnus born in Chennai, has been leading the company for the past two years.<br /><br />As Google's Chief Executive Officer, he is responsible for Google's product development and technology strategy, as well as the company's day-to-day-operations.<br /><br />Pichai joined Google in 2004 and helped lead the development of key consumer products which are now used by over a billion people.<br /><br />In 2014, he took over product, engineering, and research efforts for all of Google's products and platforms.<br /><br />After years of working closely with Google's co-founders, Page and Sergey Brin, he became Google's CEO in August 2015.<br /><br />Under Pichai, Google has boosted sales from its core advertising and YouTube business, while also investing in machine learning, hardware and cloud computing. <br /></div></div>