Alphabet appoints Pichai to its board of directors

San Francisco July 25 (IANS) Alphabet Inc. the parent company of Google has appointed Indian-born Google CEO Sundar Pichai to its board of directors.

"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 m excited that he is joining the Alphabet board " said Larry Page CEO of Alphabet in a statement.

As Google s CEO Pichai is responsible for Google s product development and technology strategy as well as the company s day-to-day operations.

He joined Google in 2004 and helped lead the development of key consumer products which are now used by over a billion people.

In 2014 Pichai took over product engineering and research efforts for all of Google s products and platforms.

After years of working closely with Google s co-founders Page and Sergey Brin Pichai became Google s CEO in August 2015.

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