Neal Mohan, an Indian-American business expert, will take over as YouTube’s next CEO (chief executive officer) from Susan Wojcicki, who formerly worked for Alphabet.
With this promotion, Mohan will join an elite group of Indian-born global tech leaders that includes Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and Alphabet, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Shantanu Narayen of Adobe, and Arvind Krishna of IBM.
As chief product officer, the new YouTube CEO had previously worked for Wojcicki. Prior to this, he represented the company on a number of talk shows, including the well-liked Lew Later (unbox therapy), where he discussed his upbringing and YouTube’s future objectives.
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Mohan has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in addition to a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Neal Mohan, an Indian-American CEO, started his career at Accenture, where he worked for around 1.5 years, according to a detailed examination of his LinkedIn profile. He then worked for DoubleClick, which led to his 2007 admission into Google. In time, he was promoted to SVP of Display and Video Ads.