Happy Birthday Sundar Pichai! From a humble childhood in India to heading Google, here's all about his journey

Today is the 49th birthday of Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Pichai was born on 10 June 1972 in, Tamil Nadu’s Madurai district. Pichai has done his BTech from IIT Kharagpur and MS from Stanford University. Here are some interesting facts about Sundar Pichai. 

Last month, the Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar revealed the name of the school where he studied in Chennai. In an interaction at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, someone asked Pichai about the school he went to in his hometown. Responding to the question, he said that he completed his schooling at Vana Vani in Chennai. Pichai also added that the school he was talking about is located inside the IIT Madras campus. He was shown a long list of schools named on his Wikipedia page. He responded by saying that only two of them are true.

Pichai received a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He also has a Master of Science from Stanford University and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Pichai as been at Google since 2004. Before taking over as the Google CEO, he was SVP of Google Android, Chrome and Apps, working on consumer products.

Pichai was part of the team that launched the Chrome browser in 2008 and, prior to that, worked on various search products, including Google Toolbar, Desktop Search, Gadgets, and Google Gears and Gadgets.

Before joining Google, Pichai worked as an engineer at manufacturer Applied Materials, followed by a stint in management consulting at McKinsey & Company, according to Business Insider.

Sundar Pichai is married to Anjali Pichai and together they have two children Kavya Pichai and Kiran Pichai. Sundar had met Anjali during his college in Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. Anjali, a software engineer, was his classmate.

Pichai is a big fan of cricket. Addressing students at the Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University in 2015, Pichai revealed that he was big fan of cricket and the batting maestros Sunil Gavasker and Sachin Tendulkar.