Indian-American Neal Mohan Named YouTube’s New CEO: 6 Things You Should Know About Him

Indian-American Neal Mohan will take over as YouTube’s new CEO, as current CEO Susan Wojcicki has announced her departure after a successful 9-year stint at the helm of the video-sharing site.

Neal Mohan, YouTube’s current Product Director, joined Google in 2008. He is an alumnus of Stanford University and previously worked at Microsoft.

Susan Wojcicki, who spent nine years as CEO of YouTube, is moving into an advisory role at Google and Alphabet with CEO Sundar Pichai.

“Mohan will become YouTube’s SVP and new leader. I’ve worked with Mohan for nearly 15 years of my career. He first came to Google with the DoubleClick acquisition in 2007 and his role grew to head of display and video advertising,” Wojcicki said.

Neal Mohan’s induction as CEO of YouTube adds to the growing list of highly sought-after Indian-American executives who have served as top executives at well-known technology companies. Notable names include PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Google’s own Sundar Pichai.

Here are five things you need to know about Neal Mohan:

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  Neal Mohan is an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
  
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  Mohan’s career kickstarted as a Senior Analyst at Accenture.
  
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  Throughout his career, he has occupied diverse roles across multiple organizations, from being the Vice-President of
  
  Business
  
  Operations at DoubleClick Inc. to Manager of Corporate Strategy at Microsoft and served as Senior Vice President of Display and Video Ads at Google.
  
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  He is a board member at Board Of Directors at Stitch Fix and 23andme.
  
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  Mohan played a key role in launching popular YouTube features—including the subscription service YouTube Red—later rebranded as YouTube Premium.
  
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  After assuming the role of YouTube’s CEO in 2014, Susan Wojcicki brought Mohan on-board. Since 2015, Mohan has been serving as the chief product officer at YouTube.
  

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