of Directors of Alphabet – Google ' s parent company – in July 2017 .
Under his leadership Google has focused firmly on product and services development , all of which are powered by the latest advances in AI .
But it was back in his native India that Pichai first discovered his love of technology . He grew up in Chennai , India and studied engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology . He holds a master ' s degree from Stanford University .
His father was an electrical engineer at the British multinational GEC , and that paternal influence clearly rubbed off , because Pichai showed an early interest in technology .
After being awarded a scholarship in 1995 to study at Stanford University ( engineering and materials science ) Pichai remained in the US , and went on to earn an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania . technologymagazine . com 27