Amit Singhal, former senior VP of search operations at Google, was awarded a $45 million exit package when he left the company in 2016, according to a complaint filed in a lawsuit, reports Business Insider.

Singhal received only $15 million of the package because of a clause in the deal that limited the payout if he joined a competitor, according to Business Insider. Singhal joined Uber in 2017 — about one year after leaving Google — but resigned only weeks later after news of accusations that he sexually harassed a subordinate, while at Google, were made public.

Singhal's exit package, combined with Android creator Andy Rubin's $90 million deal, implies that Google paid two former executives accused of sexual harassment a total $105 million upon their departures. News of the allegations led to thousands of Google employees staging a walkout in protest in November 2018.

Google Walkout organizers said it would start a new campaign using the hashtag "#GooglePayoutsForAll" to call attention to alternatives for how the millions given to Singhal and Rubin could have been spent, Business Insider reported.

At Cornell University, Amitabh (Amit) Singhal conducted research with the late Gerard Salton, co-founder of the computer science department, known as the “father of information retrieval.”

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