Google CEO Sundar Pichai (Photo : Reuters )
After the merging of Google's various businesses into its Alphabet parent company, 43-year-old CEO Sundar Pichai recently announced that three long-term employees will be promoted to top-tier executive positions. He has selected them to continue developing signature products such as Search, AdSense, and YouTube, and fill big brass positions related to sales; operations; and Android, Chrome OS, and Chromecast.
Phillip Schindler is a vice president of sales operations. After a decade with Google he will be bumped up to Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Operations, after recently replacing Omid Kordestani who now gets his paycheck from Alphabet. Android vice president Dave Burke will also take on more upper-level management assignments, according to Barrington Review.
Next, Hiroshi Lockheimer moved up in the ranks to Senior Vice President of Android, Chrome OS, and Chromecast. The engineer has worked at Google for nine years and been key in the development of the Chrome operating system and Android's venture into car software. He also developed a close professional relationship with Pichai when the former headed Android and Chrome.
Finally, Neal Mohan's tech industry experience made him the top candidate for the position of Senior Vice President of Display and Video Advertising, according to Android Headlines. This will allow him to continue using his ad savvy following Google's buyout of the YouTube video sharing site, and his own advertising-centered company DoubleClick. Mohan has even received job offers from the Twitter social network and Dropbox file hosting service.
The launching of Alphabet could prove to be a wise move by Google. It allows the tech giant to retain its Internet business' cash cows for desktops and mobile devices, while developing its smaller yet more thrilling business ventures.
It remains to be seen if the Mountain View-based company's restructuring will help to keep all the subsidiaries organized and transform it into the next General Electric, as some experts have predicted. The move has certainly shaken things up.
