Rick Osterloh has been leading the hardware division at Google since 2016 – or longer if you count his stint as president of Motorola Mobility when Google briefly owned it. In that time, he oversaw the launch of the Google Pixel phones, Google Home speakers, Daydream VR headsets, the Pixelbook tablets, and much more. This year, his team launched a phone boasting Google’s own custom silicon, an idea he and Google CEO Sundar Pichai began discussing in 2016.