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Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai’s Wife Anjali Pichai

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Meet Anjali Pichai

Anjali Pichai is the wife of  business executive, Sundar Pichai; her hubby is the chief executive officer at Google.

It sure is nice to be married to a bright man, but how about to be married to the highest paid CEO around? Earlier this year, we learned, the Indian native, was named the highest-paid CEO in the U.S. Last February, Google awarded Pichai $199 million in restricted stock, which was the biggest grant reported by a Google CEO, according to Bloomberg.

And according to the Times of India, he made a ridiculous amount of money last year.  A regulatory filing revealed Pichai was paid a salary of $652,500, awarded restricted stock worth $99.8 million and given “other” compensation of $22,935 making a grand total of $100.5 million in 2015 alone.

Sundar Pichai joined Google in 2004 and became CEO in August of 2015. Prior to that, he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google’s consumer products, including Google Toolbar, Chrome and Chrome OS. He was also responsible for the HTML5 and open web platform efforts at Google.

Sundar brings more than 20 years of experience developing high-tech consumer and enterprise products. Before joining Google, he held various engineering and product management positions at Applied Materials, and was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company for a variety of software and semiconductor clients.

Sundar received a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology and was awarded an Institute Silver Medal. He holds an M.S. from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar, according to his LinkedIn.

Anjali met her hubby while they both attended the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. The couple dated in India but she later joined him in the United States. It is said, it was Anjali Pichai who told Sundar to stay at Google after he was contacted by Microsoft, Yahoo and Twitter; and now he is the CEO.

Below you can read more facts about Mrs. Pichai

1. She also studied engineering, she holds a B Tech, Chemical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur

2. Anjali is from Rajasthan.

3. Sundar proposed to Anjali during his final year of Engineering from IIT Kharagpur

4. Anjali Pichai is the mother of the couple’s two children: daughter Kavya and son, Kiran.

5. She is the Business Operations Manager at Intuit

6. she and her family live in San Francisco.

You can find her on Facebook here.

Eleanor Eich- Mozilla´s Former CEO Brendan Eich´s Wife

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Meet Eleanor Eich is the wife of Brendan Eich, the co-founder of mozilla.org who served as CEO for Mozilla. He is widely known for his contributions to the evolution of the Web, including inventing JavaScript and spearheading its ongoing standardization and evolution.

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Her very bright husband created JavaScript in 1995, internet’s most widely used programming language. Eich became the god of programming for all those back in the day.

He also co-founded the mozilla.org project in 1998, serving as chief architect. Eich helped launch the award winning Firefox web browser back in November 2004 and Thunderbird e-mail client the following month. He holds a bachelor of science in math and computer science from Santa Clara University and a master of science in computer science from the University of Illinois.

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But we where shocked to learn reports of her husband, Brendan Eich has stepped down as CEO of Firefox-maker Mozilla Corporation – after it emerged he controversially backed a ballot measure that outlawed same-sex marriage in California. Eleanor’s husband not only not only decided to step down as CEO, he has quit Mozilla outright.

Eich’s appointment as Mozilla’s chief exec spurred outrage among gay rights supporters after public records revealed that he contributed $1,000 to the campaign in support of Proposition 8, a divisive 2008 California ballot initiative that enshrined “one man, one woman” as the standard for marriage in the state’s constitution.

Although the bill was eventually struck down as unconstitutional under federal law, Eich’s support for it was seen as antithetical to Mozilla’s progressive public ethos, leading to calls for a boycott of the group’s Firefox web browser.

In an interview with the Guardian newspaper on Wednesday, Eich, a Mozilla cofounder, said his political beliefs were “personal” and that he had “kept them out of Mozilla all these 15 years we’ve been going.”

Mozilla cofounder and executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker wrote that Eich’s decision was voluntary and that he made it “for Mozilla and our community.” But on her March 29 blog, she clearly appears to clash with the views of Eleanor’s hubby

“Mozilla supports equality for all, explicitly including LGBT equality and marriage equality.” She wrote.

Eleanor and Brendan have an under-the-radar lifestyle. Although her husband is widely recognized for his enduring contributions to the internet revolution, not much information is found about her, what we do know is that she is in her early 60’s and she has lived in Santa Clara, CA and Los Gatos, CA. Eleanor is also the mother of the couple’s five children.

You can read Eich’s statement here, we are sure Eleanor will be happy to hear he is planning to spend more time with his family.

Do you think Eleanor’s husband, Brendan Eich made the right decision for Mozilla?

You can find her on Facebook here.

Kathy Clark Hurley- YouTube Co-funder Chad Hurley’s wife

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Meet Kathy Clark aka Kathy Hurley, she is happily married to Chad Meredith Hurley, one of the guys behind YouTube and MixBit. Her hubby Chad could be facing some legal trouble right this instance! Reports indicate Kim K with hubby to be Kanye are suing the YouTube Co-Founder, for allegedly leaking their proposal video! Oh-oh

TMZ reports the 33-year-old reality TV star and the 36-year-old singer claimed that Hurley had signed a confidentiality agreement, which he reportedly broke by posting the video on his new site, MixBit, issuing a press release on the clip and also tweeting about it!

But let’s talk about more pleasant things and get to know Kathy! She is the daughter of another Silicon Valley entrepreneur and Netscape founder, Jim Clark. The low-key couple has two children. Kathy’s dad is a notable entrepreneur and computer scientist. Clark has been married four times. His fourth and current wife is Kristy Hinze, an Australian actress 36 years his junior. In 2011, the couple welcomed Chad Hurley’s half baby sister in law.

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Kathy met Chad back in 2000 at a a friend’s birthday. When Chad worked as a designer for PayPal. Kathy has a bunch of incredibly accomplished internet entrepreneurs at her side huh! While at PayPal her hubby helped design the company’s logo but two years later PayPal gets bought out by eBay. Her husband as one of the founding staff of eBay gets to have a chuck of money to start his next venture; a site where people can easily share videos with their friends online. So Kathy was there from the beginning before all the craziness with YouTube broke out in 2005.

Unfortunately since her hubby became a huge success there is not much info on her and she is only described as either Jim Clark’s daughter or Chad’s wife! But apparently this is the way she likes it, Kathy is very private about her family life, and very little information is available regarding her family. On her hubby’s sites like, Facebook, Twitter there is not one picture of her or even on Google, nothing. But the explanation could be her hubby, a key Google stakeholder maybe ensuring her privacy.

The couple lives in Palo Alto, California.

You can follow her husband on twitter here, Facebook here, Google + here.

Margaret Davidson Munzer- Billionaire hedge fund manager Daniel S. Loeb’s Wife

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Margaret Munzer Loeb, a former yoga instructor and graduate of Brown and NYU’s School of Social Work, got to marry a billionaire! She married then-man-about-town Loeb in July 4, 2004. Her hubby is the founder and head of $13 billion hedge fund firm Third Point, is at the forefront of the activist investing wave that is storming financial markets.

She was born on July 22, 1972; the daughter of Patricia and Stephen I. Munzer of New York. According to her wedding announcement, her father is an associate in Munzer & Saunders, a New York law firm. Her mother occupations in Bridgewater Crossings, N.J., for Aventis, the French pharmaceuticals haver, for which she is the guide of media relations for the company’s United States operations.

Rabbi Heshy Blumstein officiated their ceremony at the bride and bridegroom’s beach house in East Hampton, N.Y. She was 31-year-old when she tied the knot. She graduated magna cum laude and followed up with her master’s degree in social occupation. They both were well into their years when they decided to get hitched, Loeb was 42-years-ol when he said “I do” He graduated from Columbia. His mother is a Melville scholar who writes under the name Clare L. Spark; she is the author of ”Hunting Captain Ahab,” (Kent State University Press, 2001). His father, who was until last year the general counsel at Williams-Sonoma, the cookware company based in San Francisco, is a corporate governance consultant in Santa Monica.

In their nearly 10-year-marriage they have already expanded and quickly became parents to their three children, daughters Satya and Ava and son Jacob Loeb. The couple collects contemporary art and are supports of Prep for Prep and Lincoln Center. In 2007, they sold their Bank Street townhouse for $12 million and bought a $45 million full-floor penthouse on Central Park. She has lived in New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA since her hubby hails from Santa Monica, California.

The lovely 41-year-old is also involved with the Ethical Culture Fieldstone School.

You can find her on Facebook here.

Melinda Milberg-Finance Exec David Milberg’s wife

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Meet the wife of failed Lehman Brother’s former VP Melinda Milberg, she is also known as Melinda Milberg, Melinda B Milberg, Melinda B Thaler or Melinda D Milberg.

Thursday at Manhattan Supreme Court it was the turn for 50-year-old Melinda to take the stand in the assault trial she and her husband are battling. According to the New York Daily News, the couple who has been married for the past 16-years are going through a bitter divorce and where once was love and “museums, movies music concerts… ballet, opera,” is now left with animalistic grunts and bites?

According to the 50-year-old Melinda, her former Lehman Brothers vice president hubby threatened to kill her during a violent April 1 attack that took place at their upper West Side home. She testified earlier today:

“He let out an almost animalistic grunt and sunk his teeth into my flesh,” “He started to grind his teeth into my flesh and then he released his bite.”

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She is seen below leaving, the court where she was at the verge of tears but kept her composure the entire time.

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Melinda Beth Thaler, the daughter of Sheldon Thaler of Princeton, N.J., and the late Beverly Casper Thaler was born on December 12, 1962. She graduated from Cornell University and received a law degree from George Washington University. Her father, who is retired, was a vice president of Geomed Inc., a medical products company in Middlesex, N.J., and an inventor holding 25 patents. Her mother was a social worker at Trenton Central High School.

She and her still husband David, met on a trip to Israel in 1994 and were soon in love, married in 1997 by Rabbi Robert I. Summers in the Pegasus Suite at the Rainbow Room in New York; they soon began a family and have a 14-year-old daughter together. She was 34-years-old when she said “I Do” to David Jonathan Milberg, and worked as a senior lawyer at the AT&T Corporation in New York. Her experience in commercial law includes working as an Associate at Crowell & Moring, from 1989 – 1992 and before that she was a Law clerk at Hon. Philip Nichols, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

In 1994 she was co-author to “Mandatory Prediscovery Disclosure:  A First Look,”  and in 1996 she published “Operational Results of Federal Mandatory Prediscovery Disclosure Reform”

Melinda was also a teacher at Fordham University School of Law up until last year; she taught Drafting for Regulated Industries, Legal Writing for LL.M.’s and Principles of Legal Drafting.

So do you think she is a victim here or like her husband’s lawyer says, “a vindictive liar” ??

You can find her on Facebook here and on LinkedIn here.

Nicole Nicki Dugan – Yahoo’s New Tech Columnist David Pogue’s

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To talk about technology columnist for The New York Times, David Pogue’s new wife Nicole Dugan; who is his present and future if you will, we need to make a brief time travel to his past. Back in 2011 he and his former wife Jennifer were issued misdemeanor summonses after being charged with disorderly conduct. The couple were in the middle of a divorce and things got a little out of hand.

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Jennifer and Pogue had three children together: son Kelly, daughter Tia, and son Jeffrey. The altercation took place at former couple’s home and it became a he said, she said battle. According to her she was struck on the head by David and he said she bit his harm after both were struggling to get an iPhone! Jennifer and former hubby had one of those messy situations and we all know how divorces can get emotional.

During a conference where David was a speaker at the time, ironically about domestic abuse, he was confronted with questions about the altercation but he dismiss them saying it wasn’t appropriate for the forum.

Now nearly two years later the tech guru, has found love again with his beautiful new wife Nicole Dugan. The couple tied the knot earlier this year. According to her Facebook, Nicki’s hometown is Kinnelon, New Jersey. She is currently the vice president at The OutCast agency in San Francisco, California.

After high school she attended  Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1989 with a BA in English. She also did a Summer study abroad program with University of New Hampshire in 1988. For three years she worked as a senior editor for Travel Holiday Magazine where she assigned and edited feature articles for national travel magazine; participated in planning of future issues. Collaborated on design and layouts with photo and art staff. She was also an editorial director at Sheila Donnelly & Associates then moved of to the director position at Niehaus Ryan Wong but her longest job position was at Yahoo! where she was Senior Director, Corporate Communications for nine years.

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Oversaw Yahoo!’s social media strategies, including editorial direction and establishing guidelines and best practices for employees and content managers. Managed corporate-level social media engagement in channels that include the company’s corporate blog, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr. Founding editor of the company’s corporate blog, which earned a 2007 Platinum PR Award honorable mention in its first year. Among other awards she has snatched we can mention:

PR Week Award Honorable Mention for Campaign of the Year – Bloom Energy (2010)
PR News Platinum PR Award Finalist – Bloom Energy (2011)
PR Week Award Finalist for Technology Campaign of the Year – Lytro (2011)

At OutCast where she has been for the past three years, she in charge of overseeing public relations strategies for high-tech companies, including past/present clients such as Airware, Andreessen Horowitz, Bloom Energy, Hara, Khosla Ventures, Instagram, Lytro, the Nike Foundation, Pinterest, Samsung Open Innovation Center, Solazyme, and Udacity.

You can find more about her specialties and professional skills here.

On twitter she says

Hack photographer. Former Yahoo! blogger. OutCast. Mom. Bicoastal traveler. Other half of @Pogue.

So we can tell she is also a romantic huh! She and her TV science presenter hubby would seemed as if they had exchanged jobs, the 50-year-old has announced he is the new addition at Yahoo.

You can find Nicki on Facebook here and follow on twitter here. You don’t want to miss the video below!

Photo Credit: Arrowood Photography.

Joan Templeman- Branson is Sir Richard Branson’s Wife

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Let’s talk about Lady Branson or Joan Templeman. She became Mrs. Branson when she married her long time partner, Branson on December 20, 1989 at Necker Island, the 74-acre island in the British Virgin Islands that Branson owns. The couple’s first child, a girl named Clare Sarah died when she was just four days old in 1979. Then Joan gave birth to daughter Holly in 1982 and son Sam Branson in 1985.

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Joan Templeman who was born in Glasgow was in a previous relationship before her magnate husband came along. She was the childhood sweetheart of musician Ronnie Leahy. The topless model and Ronnie Leahy developed a relationship in their native hometown. They met in 1966 and Joan watched proudly as Ronnie’s first band, Stone The Crows, started to hit the big time. They married and moved to London where for the next 12 years Ronnie believed they had the perfect marriage.

They were married 12 or 13 years and having lots of fun until Sir Richard came along, according to Ronnie. Branson allegedly fell head over heals when he first stumbled into Joan in the kitchen of his Oxford shire recording complex in Shipton-on-Cherwell. Branson who pursued her immediately would show up while she worked at a shop near London’s trendy Portobello Road which sold Victorian posters and antiques. He even earned the nickname Tag, for his habit of asking if he could tag along with friends who were meeting Joan.

Joan is the daughter of a ship’s carpenter and grew up sharing a bed with six siblings but that didn’t stop her on becoming confident and chatty. Joan was unimpressed by his public school education and the millions he already had in the bank. And she certainly wasn’t interested in his pranks and business ventures but his relentless pursuit and flattery won Joan over he would swamp her with invitations while her husband while Ronnie would work next door in the studio. It was late in 1978 when she left Ronnie for Branson.

The couple returned to England and settled down to life on his houseboat in London’s Little Venice. Branson calls her

“fantastically adorable,” adding, “With Joan, I was searching for someone down-to-earth.”

They married after twelve years and two children together after allegedly his daughter Holly asked him to. Joan probably has mixed emotions on the reopening of the massive Necker Island mansion which burned down two years ago. After all is where the 68-year-old and mother of two tied the knot!

Dagmar Dolby- Sound Pioner Ray Dolby’s wife

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Our deepest condolences to 72-year-old Dagmar Dolby. The wife of the sound pioneer Ray Dolby has lost her husband of 47 years. Dolby died of leukemia on September 12, 2013, at his home in San Francisco at the age of 80.

The couple were married back in 1966 and had two sons, Tom and David. Dagmar was born on June 28, 1941 being the wife of the man who took the hiss out of sound recordings she had a notable social life, attending charity and other public events along with her husband. She lived in Homewood, CA from 2000 – 2010; also in San Francisco, CA from 2008 – 2010 and in Tahoe City, CA since last year.

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Dagmar’s husband founded Dolby Laboratories back in 1965, reinventing sound and becoming the sound legend that he did. The couple became a household name when his company grew into an industry leader in audio technology. His work in noise reduction and surround sound led to the creation of a number of technologies that are still used in music, movies and entertainment today. The innovations also turned Dolby and his wife into a rich power couple with an estimated fortune of $2.3 billion, according to Forbes magazine.

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Dagmar and Ray are also parents of Tom Dolby who is a well known successful novelist born in London but raised in San Francisco, he is the author of the best-selling novel “The Trouble Boy” his work also includes the Secret Society books, we can see him pictured above with his parents.

Dagmar is known for her fundraiser work; the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund is one of the largest nonprofits. The 2011 reported income for Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund was $31.7 million, which ranks it amongst the highest income nonprofits. With his death, Dagmar, Dolby’s wife of 47 years, assumes his fortune and place on the Forbes 400 list. Her husband of over four decades was born in Portland, Ore. He first became fascinated with sound when studying the vibrations of his clarinet reeds as a child.

She talks proudly about Ray, saying

“Ray really managed to have a dream job,”  “Because he could do exactly what he wanted to do, whichever way he wanted to do it, and in the process, did a lot of good for many music and film lovers. And in the end, built a very successful company.”

R.I.P Ray Dolby.