Prabhakar Raghavan

Prabhakar Raghavan is a business executive and former researcher of web information retrieval. He is a senior vice president at Google, where he is responsible for Google Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce, and Payments products.[2] His research spans algorithms, web search and databases.[3] He is the co-author of the textbooks Randomized Algorithms[4] with Rajeev Motwani[5] and Introduction to Information Retrieval. After working 14 years at IBM, he became senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search vendor Verity in 2004.[16][14][12] In July 2005, he was hired by Yahoo! to lead Yahoo! Research in Sunnyvale, California.[17] At Yahoo!, worked on research projects including search and advertising.[15][18] In 2011, he was appointed as Yahoo!'s chief strategy officer by CEO Carol Bartz, who replaced the co-founder Jerry Yang in 2009 and was fired in 2011 as the company declined.[19] In 2012, Prabhakar joined Google after severe funding cuts in Yahoo!'s research division. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabhakar_Raghavan