Information Related to Audit Fees: 2013-2014 Change in Auditing Firm (Reason for
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Question
Information Related to Audit Fees:
2013-2014
Change in Auditing Firm (Reason for Change):
Please add background information for the key company officiers of google for 2013-2014
Lead Independent Director
John L. Hennessy
[f]
Director
Ann Mather
[g]
Director
Paul S. Otellini
[h]
Director
K. Ram Shriram
[i]
Director
Shirley M. Tilghman
[j]
Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer
Nikesh Arora
[k]
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, Chief Legal Officer, and Secretary
David C. Drummond
[l]
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Patrick Pichette
[m]
Explanation / Answer
Google Inc. established in the year 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin is an US multinational technology company which specializes in internet related goods and services such as online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software and hardware.
Stockholders in Google Inc for the fiscal year 2013 had affirmed the appointment of audit firm Ernst & Young LLP an independent registered public accounting firm and then again further ratified their appointment for the year 2014. The following were the summary of fees paid towards audit and other services provided by Ernst & Young LLP for the year 2013 and 2014:
Particulars
Year - (Amount Paid in $)
2013
2014
Audit Fees
13,666
13,865
Audit-Related Fees
2,291
1,742
Tax Fees
3,416
5,180
Other Fees
688
72
Total Fees Paid
20,061
20,859
John Leroy Hennessy born on 22nd September, 1952 was US computer scientist and Chairman of Alphabet Inc. He studied Ph.D. and M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook, State University of New York and B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University. Since April 2004 had been the lead independent director of Google Inc.
Ann Mather was born on 10th April, 1960 attended University of Cambridge in UK where she did M.A. with Geography and Land Economy as major subject. She presently serves on the board of directors of Alphabet Inc., Netflix, Glu Mobile, Shutterfly, MGM Holdings and Arista Networks.
Paul Stevens Otellini was born on 12th October, 1950 graduated from St. Ignatius College Preparatory and held a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of San Francisco. He did his MBA from Haas School of Business from Berkeley at University of California was a US businessman onetime president and CEO of Intel had been on the board of directors of Google Inc.
Kavitark Ram Shriram had bachelor's degree from Loyola College, Chennai of the University of Madras. He was an Indian-born American businessman and was the founding board member and one of the first investor in Google.
Shirley Marie Tilghman was regarded as US scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator. In August 2012 Tilghman became member of board of directors of Google and served in that capacity from October 2005 to February 2018. As compensation for joining the board she got 6,000 stock shares worth $5.4 million.
Nikesh Arora graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, BHU in Varanasi with a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering. Arora joined Google in 2004 held multiple senior operating leadership roles at Google served as Vice President, Europe Operations from 2004 to 2007. He was Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Google Inc. (Google) since January 2011 until July 2014.
David Carl Drummond is an American businessman. He currently serves as senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer for Alphabet Inc. and formerly its subsidiary, Google he earned a bachelor's degree in history from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School.
Patrick Pichette holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Montreal University and MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Pembroke College, Oxford.was a Canadian businessperson. He was senior vice president and chief financial officer of Google Inc from 2008 until 2015. He is now a general partner at the venture capital fund iNovia Capital.
Particulars
Year - (Amount Paid in $)
2013
2014
Audit Fees
13,666
13,865
Audit-Related Fees
2,291
1,742
Tax Fees
3,416
5,180
Other Fees
688
72
Total Fees Paid
20,061
20,859