CurrentCurrent · in office since 2015
Rank #22 Globally
Quick Answer & Tenure Summary
Sundar Pichai has served as CEO of Alphabet for 11 years 1 month (4,059 days), holding office continuously since Oct 2, 2015. At present, Sundar Pichai ranks as the #22 longest-serving chief executive among tracked global leaders in the database.
In Office
11 years 1 month
4,059 days
Start Date
Oct 2, 2015
Appointed 2015
End Date
Present
Active executive
Age at Appointment
43 years old
Born Jun 10, 1972
Executive Succession & Corporate Facts
- Predecessor
- None (Founding CEO)
- Successor
- Active (In office)
- Global Tenure Rank
- #22 Longest-Serving CEO in Database (View Full Rankings →)
- Company Founded
- Sep 4, 1998 (Mountain View, California)
- Known Aliases
- Pichai Sundararajan
Tenure Milestones & Transition Timeline
Oct 2, 2015Source ↗
Appointed CEO of Google
Appointed CEO of Google following the corporate restructuring into Alphabet Inc.
Dec 3, 2019Source ↗
Appointed Alphabet CEO
Assumed CEO role of parent company Alphabet Inc. as co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepped down.
Dec 6, 2023Source ↗
Gemini AI Model Announced
Introduced Google's next-generation multimodal foundation AI model Gemini across Google products.
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