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KURIAN
Thomas
Chief Executive Officer of Google Cloud
Organization: Google Cloud Platform
Profession: Chief Executive Officer
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Thomas Kurian is the chief executive officer of Google Cloud, which he joined in January 2019, and a former senior executive at Oracle Corporation.
Early life
Thomas Kurian was born to P.C. Kurian and his wife Molly in 1966 in Pampady village of Kottayam district in Kerala, India. Kurian senior was a chemical engineer and the general manager of Graphite India. Thomas Kurian was one among four brothers including his identical twin George Kurian, who was in 2015 made the CEO of NetApp.
As their father's career involved moving around India, the twins boarded at the Jesuit-run St Joseph's Boys High School in Bengaluru. Both were accepted to the prestigious IIT Madras. There they both took SAT tests and sent the results to various colleges, including Princeton University, which offered both of them partial scholarship places. At the age of 17, along with George Kurian, he moved to the United States in 1986. Kurian graduated from Princeton with a bachelors degree in electrical engineering, which he graduated summa cum laude.
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