Meet the Indian behind ChromeBook

Chrome is back in the limelight with Google's recent launch of Chromebook. For beginners, this is a computer which stores no data. Everything the user creates is automatically stored in Google's servers (or the cloud, as it's increasingly called). So, no need to back up data for fear of the hard disk crashing or the laptop getting stolen.

Though some feel it will take a while for this form of computing to become the norm, Chromebook is nevertheless a revolutionary progression in Web services, which could theoretically reduce computers to mere devices to access the Web and threaten Microsoft's Windows.

One little-known fact: the Chrome team is headed by an Indian -- Sundar Pichai. As senior vice-president, Pichai leads the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's search and consumer products, including Chrome, Chrome OS, Google Toolbar and Google Pack. With more than 12 years of experience developing high-tech consumer and enterprise products, Pichai has turned out to be a key person in research and development in Google.

Before joining the internet giant, Pichai held various engineering and product management positions at Applied Materials, and was a management consultant with McKinsey & Co for software and semiconductor clients. After a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, he did an MS from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar, recognitions offered to the most talented students.

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