Here's Everything You Need To Know About Indian-American Neal Mohan, Who Is Set To Become YouTube CEO

After 25 years at Google, YouTube¡¯s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, announced her resignation yesterday. She has been serving the role for nine years and will be replaced by Indian-American Neal Mohan, who is currently the Chief Product Officer at YouTube.

Neal Mohan To Replace Susan Wojcicki As YouTube CEO

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Thank you, @SusanWojcicki. It's been amazing to work with you over the years. You've built YouTube into an extraordinary home for creators and viewers. I'm excited to continue this awesome and important mission. Looking forward to what lies ahead... https://t.co/Rg5jXv1NGb

¡ª Neal Mohan (@nealmohan) February 16, 2023

Reflecting on the new role that he is set to take up, Neal responded to outgoing CEO Susan's tweet, "It's been amazing to work with you over the years. You've built YouTube into an extraordinary home for creators and viewers. I'm excited to continue this awesome and important mission. Looking forward to what lies ahead."

With this new role as YouTube CEO, Neal Mohan is set to join the elite list of global tech CEOs of Indian origin, which includes Google parent Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, Microsoft¡¯s Satya Nadella, IBM's Arvind Krishna, and Adobe's Shantanu Narayen.

More About YouTube's New CEO Neal Mohan

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Education & Early Years

Neal Mohan holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He started his career at Accenture (then Andersen Consulting) in 1996 and then joined a startup called NetGravity that was later acquired by Internet advertising firm DoubleClick in 2002.

After that, Mohan joined Google via DoubleClick. After his two-year MBA course (2003-2005) and a brief stint at Microsoft, Mohan rejoined DoubleClick and played a key role in the company's $3.1 billion sale to Google in April 2007.

Role At Google

At Google, Mohan led the firm's display and video advertising business, where he was responsible for its advertising product offerings on YouTube, the Google Display Network, AdSense, AdMob, and the DoubleClick ad tech products, from 2008 to 2015. He also built solutions for advertisers and media partners that enabled the growth of the consumer internet, mobile app ecosystem, and online media industry.

Mohan has led several strategic startup acquisitions, including Invite Media, Admeld, and Teracent, to bolster Google's advertising offerings.

Moving To YouTube

Susan Wojcicki, a key architect of Google's online advertising business, tapped Mohan as her lieutenant after she took over as YouTube CEO in 2014, as per a Moneycontrol report. Neal Mohan has served as YouTube's chief product officer since 2015.

Neal Mohan has played a pivotal role in the launch of some of YouTube's biggest products including its subscription service YouTube Red, which was later rebranded as YouTube Premium; music streaming service YouTube Music; kids-oriented app YouTube Kids, live television streaming service YouTube TV; and its short-form video service YouTube Shorts. He is also responsible for the service's mobile, desktop, and television apps, apart from tools for media partners, content creators, musicians, governments, and consumer brands, among others.

Mohan also leads YouTube's trust and safety team, which oversees the creation and enforcement of platform policies and community guidelines governing the content available on the platform.

Rejecting Rival Offers

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Over the years, several companies have unsuccessfully tried to hire Mohan to lead their product functions, including file storage company Dropbox. The most prominent one being Twitter's offer in 2011, which Mohan reportedly declined after a lucrative stock grant worth $100 million, according to TechCrunch.

Serving Various Board Roles

Neal Mohan currently serves on the boards of various companies, including personal styling service Stitch Fix and genetic testing firm 23andme, co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, the sister of Susan Wojcicki and ex-wife of Sergey Brin.

He has previously served as a member of the boards of directors of the Internet Advertising Bureau (2012¨C2016) and the Mobile Marketing Association (2012¨C2015), besides being a member of the management board for the Stanford Graduate School of Business (2013¨C2017). As per his LinkedIn profile, he is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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