Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have announced they will step down as executives of parent company Alphabet, with current Google CEO Sundar Pichai to take over.
WHO ARE THE TOP THREE:
NAME: Larry Page
AGE: 46
EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, master's degree from Stanford University, on leave from Ph.D. program at Stanford.
PERSONAL: Married to Lucy Southworth.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Took over as Google Inc.'s CEO in April 2011, having left the post in 2001 to become Google's president of products. Co-founded Google in 1998 with Sergey Brin and served as founding CEO.
NET WORTH: $US52.4 billion ($A76.6 billion), according to Forbes magazine.
NAME: Sergey Brin
AGE: 46
EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland in math and computer science. Master's degree from Stanford University, on leave from Ph.D. program at Stanford.
PERSONAL: Born in Moscow, moved to the US at age six. Divorced from Anne Wojcicki.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Co-founder of Google. In 2011, Brin took over an experimental lab called "X" that developed internet-connected eyewear, self-driving cars and internet-beaming balloons.
NET WORTH: $56.8 billion, according to Forbes.
NAME: Sundar Pichai
AGE: 47
PERSONAL: Born in India, married to Anjali Pichai.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Pichai has been at Google for 15 years, serving as a leader in projects to build the company's Chrome browser and overseeing its Android operating system. Pichai, who has an engineering background, took over as the head of Google's products before being promoted to CEO when Alphabet was created in 2015.
SALARY: Pichai's pay totalled $1.9 million in 2018, including a base salary of $650,000, according to a company filing with the SEC.
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