06 Sundar Pichai

CEO

Alphabet / Google

US $ 307BN Internet / Technology

Sundar became Google ’ s CEO in 2015 and Alphabet ’ s CEO in 2019 , overseeing the company ’ s transition into artificial intelligence and cloud computing . Born in Tamil Nadu and educated at IIT Kharagpur and Stanford University , he previously led the development of Chrome and Chrome OS . Under his leadership , Google expanded its hardware offerings , launched the Pixel phone line , and developed large language models including PaLM and Gemini , while navigating increased regulatory scrutiny in Europe and the United States .

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