Google chief Sundar Pichai is poised to become the highest-paid chief executive in the US after its parent company Alphabet awarded him $199 million in shares. Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL, GOOG) disclosed in a regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that it awarded 273,328 shares to Pichai on February 3, worth $199 million. It will also make the Indian-American one of the highe