Googles new CEO Mr. Sundar Pichai - Hope to meet Narendra Modi soon!
Posted on: 12/Aug/2015 3:00:37 PM
The new CEO of Google, India-born Sundar Pichai, informed that he hopes to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon as he thanked the Indian leader for his wishes on being named the chief of the re-organised technology giant.
Congratulatory messages
Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi had tweeted, Congratulations @sundarpichai. My best wishes for the new role at @google.
In a reply to India PM`s congratulatory twitter message, he tweeted, Thanks for the warm wishes and hope to have the opportunity to meet you soon.
It is noteworthy that Mr. Pichai`s appointment comes just over a month before Mr. Modi is scheduled to visit Silicon Valley in September and is expected to meet heads of various technology giants based there.
Silicon Valley`s big names took to the micro-blogging site to congratulate Mr. Pichai on his elevation in the company he had joined in 2004.
Mr. Pichai acknowledged and thanked Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Apple Chief Tim Cook and others who congratulated him on his promotion.
Google`s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt wrote on Twitter: Really excited about the vision and brilliance of Sundar. He`s going to be a great CEO.
Mr. Pichai becomes only the third chief executive of the company after Mr. Schmidt and co-founder Larry Page.
Bret Taylor, co-creator of Google Maps, ex-CTO of Facebook and Co-Founder of technology Quip also congratulated Mr. Pichai, the first non-white CEO, on Twitter.
Google re-organisation
In a surprise and significant re-organisation, Mr. Page announced the formation of a new parent company Alphabet Inc which will replace Google as the publicly-rated entity and all shares of Google will automatically convert into the same number of shares of Alphabet, with all of the same rights.
Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet, which will have Mr. Page as CEO and co-founder Sergey Brin as president.
Mr. Pichai, who was previously in-charge of product and engineering for Google`s Internet businesses, will be the CEO of the slightly slimmed down Google.
