On Monday afternoon, Google CEO Larry Page wrote a blog post announcing the creation of a new parent company called Alphabet. Google Ventures, Google X and Google all will move into being separate divisions of the conglomerate. In a new SEC filing, the company revealed that Eric Schmidt will be Executive Chairman of the parent firm. Google's SVP of Product, Sundar Pichai will step up to become CEO of Google while Larry Page will be the CEO of Alphabet. Google co-founder Sergey Brin will act as President of Alphabet.
Details from the SEC Filing are excerpted below:
Details from the SEC Filing are excerpted below:
On August 10, 2015, Google Inc. (“Google”) announced plans to create a new public holding company, Alphabet Inc. (“Alphabet”), and a new operating structure to increase management scale and focus on its consolidated businesses. Under the new operating structure, its main Google business will include search, ads, maps, apps, YouTube and Android and the related technical infrastructure (the “Google business”). Businesses such as Calico, Nest, and Fiber, as well as its investing arms, such as Google Ventures and Google Capital, and incubator projects, such as Google X, will be managed separately from the Google business.
In connection with the new operating structure and upon completion of the Alphabet Merger (as defined below), Larry Page will become the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Alphabet, Sergey Brin will become the President of Alphabet, Eric E. Schmidt will become the Executive Chairman of Alphabet, Ruth Porat will become the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Alphabet and David C. Drummond will become the Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Alphabet. Larry, Sergey, Eric and David will transition to these roles from their respective roles at Google, whereas Ruth will also retain her role as the CFO of Google.
Concurrently upon completion of the Alphabet Merger, Sundar Pichai, age 43, will become the new CEO of Google Inc. Sundar is currently the Senior Vice President of Products at Google and oversees product management, engineering, and research efforts for Google’s products and platforms. Since joining Google in 2004, Sundar has led a number of key consumer products which are now used by hundreds of millions of people and, prior to his current role, served as Google’s SVP of Android, Chrome and Apps. Sundar received a B.Tech. (Hons.) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, a M.S. from Stanford University, and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.