Microsoft And Google CEO Conferred With Padma Bhushan

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella were conferred with Padma Bhushan as the government announced Padma awards on the eve of Republic day. Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai have been honored for their contribution in the "trade and industry" category.

Padma Bhushan is the 3rd-highest civilian award in India after Bharat Ratna and Padma Vibhushan.

Born on June 10, 1972, in Madras (now Chennai), Pichai Sundararajan -- better known as Sundar Pichai -- earned his degree from IIT Kharagpur in metallurgical engineering.

Moving to the US, he earned an MS from Stanford University and further earned an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Pichai began his career as a materials engineer, he joined Google in 2004, and the rest is history.

Pichai was picked up as the next CEO of Google on August 10, 2015, after previously being appointed Product Chief by CEO Larry Page. He was appointed to the Alphabet Board of Directors in 2017.

On the other hand, Satya Narayana Nadella was born on August 17, 1967 in Hyderabad.

Nadella received a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology

He then moved to the US to study for an MS in computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Later, he received an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is currently the Executive Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as Chairman. Before becoming the CEO, he was the Executive Vice President of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms.