Sridhar Ramaswamy | |
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Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
Education |
IIT Madras (BS) 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]
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]
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]
Ramaswamy lives in Cupertino, California, with his wife and two sons. [7]
Sridhar Ramaswamy | |
---|---|
Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
Education |
IIT Madras (BS) 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]
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]
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]
Ramaswamy lives in Cupertino, California, with his wife and two sons. [7]