Sridhar Ramaswamy

Sridhar Ramaswamy
Ramaswamy in 2020
Born	1967 (age 57–58) Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
Education	IIT Madras (BTech) Brown University (MS, PhD)
Known for	co-founding Neeva formerly running Google's ad business
Title	CEO of Snowflake Inc.
Children	2
Scientific career
Thesis	Indexing for Data Models with Classes and Constraints (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Paris Kanellakis

Sridhar Ramaswamy (born 1967) is an Indian-American computer scientist and executive. He is the chief executive officer of cloud-based data-warehousing company Snowflake Inc. since February 2024. He was the cofounder and CEO of the startup company Neeva, an ad-free, privacy-focused search engine, until it was acquired by Snowflake.[1][2] He previously led Google’s $115 billion advertising division.[1][3]

Early life and education

Ramaswamy was born in 1967 in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.[4][5] He attended IIT Madras and received a bachelor's degree in computer science.[6] He immigrated to the United States in 1989 and received a master's degree and PhD in computer science from Brown University.[1][6]

Career

After graduating from college, Ramaswamy researched database analytics for three years at Bell Labs and held similar positions at Lucent Technologies and Bell Communications Research. While working for E.piphany as a machine learning systems developer, Google began recruiting engineers from the company.[7][6]

Ramaswamy joined Google in 2003 to work on the back-end infrastructure of AdWords as a mid-level engineer. He worked his way up the company over the course of 15 years.[7] In 2013, he was promoted to senior vice president of advertising and commerce at Google.[1][3]

Ramaswamy left Google in 2018 to become a partner at venture capitalist firm Greylock Partners. In 2019, he created Neeva as an alternative to Google Search, after becoming disillusioned with the limitations of the ad-supported search model. Instead of ads, Ramaswamy planned a subscription-based model for Neeva.[1] Neeva was launched in the US in 2021 and the next year in the UK, France, and Germany;[8][9] Neeva was acquired by Snowflake Inc. in 2023.[10] In February 2024, Ramaswamy succeeded Frank Slootman as Snowflake's CEO.[11]

Personal life

Ramaswamy lives in Cupertino, California, with his wife and two sons.[7]

References

1. Wakabayashi, Daisuke (21 June 2020). "A Former Google Executive Takes Aim at His Old Company With a Start-Up". New York Times. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
2. Swant, Marty (8 March 2021). "After Building Google's Advertising Business, This Founder Is Creating An Ad-Free Alternative". Forbes. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
3. D'Onfro, Jillian (October 2, 2018). "The exec in charge of Google's biggest business leaves to join a venture firm". CNBC. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
4. Ramaswamy, Sridhar (May 1995). Indexing for Data Models with Classes and Constraints (PDF) (Thesis). Brown. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
5. Rajan, Nandagopal (24 January 2021). "Neeva founder Sridhar Ramaswamy: 'We guarantee that your data is used to serve you better results and for nothing else'". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 8 December 2022.
6. "Sridhar Ramaswamy". Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 2015-05-23. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
7. Efrati, Amir (6 April 2015). "The Ascension of Google's Sridhar Ramaswamy". The Information. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
8. "Ex-Google ad boss builds tracker-free search engine". BBC News. 5 October 2022. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
9. "Learn About The Creator Of The Revolutionary Ad-Free Search Engine". Top AI Blogs. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
10. "Snowflake acquires Neeva, days after the search startup pivots to enterprise". VentureBeat. 2023-05-24.
11. Vanian, Jonathan (28 February 2024). "Snowflake says Frank Slootman is retiring as CEO; stock plunges 20%". CNBC. Retrieved 28 February 2024.

External links

• Carlson, Nicholas (April 6, 2015). "This unknown Google exec fought a brutal internal battle and now controls a $60 billion business". Business Insider.
• Beck, Martin (May 21, 2015). "Google Ad Chief: "How Many Of Facebook's Video Views Are Engaged?"". MarTech.
• Bergen, Mark (May 21, 2015). "Google's Ads Boss: We Are Not a Retailer and Don't Intend to Be One". Vox.