Hiroshi Lockheimer has been moved up from Vice President of Android to Senior Vice President of Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast. Lockheimer, who is one of the closest executives to Pichai, is presently a VP for the Android team.
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Schindler is one of three execs taking over responsibilities previously held by chief business officer Omid Kordestani, who is moving to an advisory role as part of the Alphabet restructuring and Sundar Pichai’s related promotion to CEO of core Google. Burke, has presumed more leader-level systems assignments.
In the advertisements segment, Mountain View’s display and video advertisement division comes with a new SVP in Mohan. He has been a powerful figure in Silicon Valley and such major players as Twitter and Dropbox have attempted to lure them over to their side, only for Mohan to stay at the tech giant. He has been connected with Google’s videos and YouTube business since his company DoubleClick was acquired by Google 2007.
Lockheimer joined Google in 2006 when he was hired by Andy Rubin, the first head of Android, to work on the company then unreleased mobile operating system. As his first task as the Google top boss, Pichai is reshuffling the leadership of the entire operations. These changes mostly concert the ads and Android units, which Google hopes will bring in more of the profits to the company.
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He and Phillip Schindler, another ads VP who’s now the SVP of Global Sales and Operations, are now responsible for expanding Google’s display and video businesses in the face of growing competition.
