Neal Mohan: New Indian-American CEO Of YouTube!

WRITTEN BY Abirath EV

YouTube's new CEO is Indian-American Neal Mohan. Neal, a longtime Google and YouTube employee, succeeds Susan Wojcicki, who has led the company since 2014.

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Neal has a degree in electrical engineering from Stanford and now joins an elite group of CEOs of US-based global giants who are from India.

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These CEOs include Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, Adobe's Shantanu Narayen, and Microsoft's Satya Nadella.

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Neal Mohan started working for Google in 2008, and in 2015 he was promoted to the role of Chief Product Officer for YouTube.

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He has also worked for Microsoft and is on the board of directors for the companies Stitch Fix and 23andMe, which is in the fields of genomics and biotechnology.

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He worked for almost eight years as the senior vice president of display and video advertising at Google.

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He built a great product and UX team and helped launch YouTube TV, YouTube Music, Premium, and Shorts.

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