Vic Gundotra

Vivek Paul "Vic" Gundotra (born 14 June 1969) is an Indian-born American businessman who served as the Senior Vice President, Social for Google until 24 April 2014.

His duties included promoting Microsoft's APIs and platforms to independent developers and helping to develop a strategy for Windows Live online services to compete with Google's web-based software applications.

[4] Gundotra joined Google in June 2007, after taking a one-year delay due to a Microsoft employee non-compete agreement.

He is widely believed to be the man behind Google+,[5] and was responsible for the controversial removal of social features from Google Reader.

[13] In 2003, Gundotra was named in the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35, for his contribution to Microsoft's .NET Framework.