Four Indian-Americans, including Google CEO Sunder Pichai, are among 42 US nationals to be honoured with this year’s prestigious “Great Immigrants: The Pride of America” award for their inspiring professional accomplishments. The other three Indian-Americans are Hari Sreenivasan, anchor and senior correspondent, PBS NewsHour, Vikram Malhotra Chairman of the Americas, McKinsey & Company and Bharati Mukherjee National, Book Critics Circle Award-winning author.
For 2016, the Carnegie Corporation named 42 honorees, who represent some 30 different countries of origin, a wide range of personal immigration stories, and inspiring professional accomplishments. Pakistani American Shaiza Rizavi, a partner at Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co., is also among the list of awardees.
Did You Know?
- Pichai is an engineer by trade. He worked at Google since 2004, taking over the reigns of CEO in August 2015.
- During his time with Google, the Indian American was instrumental in the development of Google Chrome, Chrome OS and Google Drive.
- He also oversaw the developments of the Gmail and Google Maps apps.
- A graduate of IIT Kharagpur, Stanford University and Wharton School, earning a bachelor’s, master’s and M.B.A., respectively, Pichai previously worked at Applied Materials in engineering and product management, and at McKinsey & Company in management consulting.
