Anjali Pichai is an Indian chemical engineer known for being the wife of Google CEO Sundar Puchai. They have been together since their college days and now have two children. Her husband, Sundar Pichai, joined Google in 2004 and took on the role of CEO in October 2015. She currently works as a Business Operations Manager at Intuit and has a degree in chemical engineering. Let’s know the five interesting facts about her.
1. Anjali Pichai grew up in Northern India and studied chemical engineering at Kharagpur’s College
Anjali Pichai was born on January 11, 1971, Kota, Rajasthan, India. She lives in the city Kotalocated in the Northern Indian state of Rajasthan, as her birthplace. Anjali chose the Indian Institute of Technology as her university in Kharagpur. The college is located approximately 900 miles southeast of Kota, near the border with Bangladesh. She studied chemical engineering and graduated in 1993 with a Bachelor of Technology.
2. Google CEO Sundar Pichai proposed to Anjali during their senior year of college, but reportedly had a long engagement
Anjali Pichai met her husband Sundar when they were both students at the Indian Institute of Technology. The couple both studied engineering and took classes together. At first they were just friends. The profile does not indicate who made the first move or when exactly the couple started dating. Later, Sundar Pichai proposed to Anjali during their final year of college. But the couple had a long-distance engagement for a significant period of time.
Caption: Anjali Pichai with her husband
Sundar moved to the United States of America to pursue a master’s degree at Stanford. According to some online sources, the couple was unable to talk to each other for six months due to the high cost of international phone calls. However, Sundar reportedly asked Anjali’s parents for permission to marry their daughter and the two got married.
3. Anjali Pichai is a businesswoman and is the reason why Sundar stayed at Google
Anjali Pichai is a successful American businesswoman. She previously worked as a business analyst at Accenture from 1999 to 2002. She currently works at the software company Intuit as a Business Operations Manager. Apparently, she can take some of the credit for her husband’s rise to CEO at Google.
According to some online sources, she convinced Sundar to stay with the company while he fielded offers from various technology companies. Earlier, Sundar was approached for top positions at Yahoo and Twitter. In the year 2014, he was also considered as the frontrunner to become the next CEO of Microsoft.
4. Anjali and Sundar Pichai have two children and a dog, Jeffree
Anjali Pichai and her husband Sundar are the proud parents of two children, a daughter and a son. Their daughter’s name is Kavya while their son’s name is Kiran. She hasn’t updated her public Facebook page in a few years. But she had posted several photos of the children when they were younger.
Caption: Anjali Pichai’s dog
The family also has a dog, Jeffree. Her husband, Sundar, doesn’t share photos of his wife or children on his Instagram page, but there are a handful showcasing their dog.
5. Anjali and her husband, Sundar Pichai, built a huge modern house that they helped design
The Pichai family reportedly lives a lavish and modest lifestyle. They currently live in Los Altos, California, the northern part of Silicon Valley. Their home value in the area is approx $3.5 million. The couple started working with an architect Robert Swat to design their own modern home that sits on over three acres of land and covers almost 10,000 square feet.
The design of the house includes an infinity pool, a garage of more than 80 square meters, a gym, a wine cellar and separate apartments for the nanny. They bought their lavish home in 2014 for a sum of approx $6 million.
