Sundar Pichai bags $199 millions stocks |
Sundar Pichai, chief executive of tech giant Google, was recently given a king’s ransom in stocks by the company.The Indian American, who was named to his post in August as part of a corporate restructuring when Google became a subsidiary of Alphabet, a new company run by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin was granted 273,328 Class C shares by Google .The shares amount to roughly $199 million.Pichai, who joined Google in 2004, is generally known as a soft-spoken but highly effective manager. After leading efforts to build the company`s Chrome browser and related products, Pichai was given responsibility in 2013 for Google`s Android mobile operating system — a crucial role as the company was seeing much of its Internet business shift to mobile devices. The stock award by Google catapults Pichai to one of the highest paid CEOs.
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