Larry Page

Larry Page, along with Sergey Brin, is one of the founders of Google and he is also its CEO. He was able to bring the company to 200 employees, and make it profitable before he became president of products in April 2001. Currently, he is sharing daily operational responsibilities with Brin and Eric Schmidt.

Larry PageLarry is the son of a Michigan State computer sciences professor, Dr. Carl Page. He loved computers from an early age, about six years old. When he got older, he decided to follow his father's lead, graduating with honors from the University of Michigan and earning a bachelor's in engineering. During his stay in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Larry Page was so creative, he was able to build a printer out of Lego pieces.

While he was in the school's Ph.D. program, he met and befriended Sergey Brin; the two built and ran Google, which first began operations in 1998. The search engine became so successful, so fast, that Brin and Page had to take leave from their studies. Larry Page was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow back in 2002, and he currently sits on the National Advisory Committee of UM's college of engineering. Together with Brin, Larry Page was awarded the Marconi Prize in 2004. Page is also a board trustee for the X Prize, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.