San Francisco Sources have stated that Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, has appointed India-born Google CEO Sundar Pichai to its board of directors. Meanwhile Alphabet CEO Larry Page said in a statement that, "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".
Sources have stated that after years of working closely with Google's co-founders, Page and Sergey Brin, Pichai became Google's CEO in August 2015. Pichai, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his US visit in June, told reporters after the meeting that Google was excited about investing in India.
Meanwhile Pichai said while interacting with students at his alma mater, IIT-Kharagpur, from where he earned his degree in metallurgical engineering. Moreover Pichai expressed confidence that big global software companies will start emerging from India in the next five to 10 years. He said "In five to 10 year time frame, we will see big global software companies coming out of India and we will be used to it.
