In major reshuffle, Google CEO Larry Page has transferred leadership of all core Google products over to Pichai
Google CEO Larry Page has reportedly transferred leadership of all core Google products over to India-born Sundar Pichai, who will continue to oversee his former portfolios of Android, Chrome and Google apps.
Pichai will serve as senior vice president of all Google products and will manage a number of divisions, including business and operations, access and energy, Nest, Calico, Google X, corporate development, legal, finance, and business, which includes ad sales, tech site re/code.net said on Friday.
The six executives in charge of newly added product areas, all of whom previously reported directly to Page, will now report to Pichai.
YouTube is not included in the deal because CEO Susan Wojcicki -- in whose garage the company was founded -- will continue to run that division somewhat independently.
According to re/code, the move stems from Page's fear that Google's products will grow less innovative as the company ages. Thus, the move should help create "less of a bottleneck" so that Pichai can focus his attention fully on making those existing and future products turn heads.
While sources told re/code that the move is not designed to make Pichai heir apparent to Page, it is still a major milestone for the company’s management, which has long been run by a larger group of executives.
