The move was done to give Page fewer direct reports and product units to oversee. * Pichai became CEO of Google in 2015 and all of Alphabet in 2019. * Alphabet, Google's parent company, has a long list of other businesses. Since Pichai became CEO, it acquired Fitbit in 2021 and the security company Mandiant in 2022. * Pichai's total compensation was about $226 million in 2022, more than 800 times the median employee's pay, the company said in a securities filing in April.

---

Persons: Sundar Pichai, Joe Biden, Narendra Modi, Evelyn Hockstein, Larry Page, Andy Rubin, Page, Pichai, Bard, Diane Bartz, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Google, U.S, India's, White, REUTERS, Rights, Big Tech, Wharton, Stanford University, Indian Institute of Technology, McKinsey & Co, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, Washington, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur