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

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Neeva, an ad-free, privacy-focused search engine, until it was acquired by Snowflake. He previously led

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’s $115 billion advertising division.

Early life and education

Ramaswamy was born in 1967 in

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, India. He attended

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and received a bachelor's degree in computer science. He immigrated to the United States in 1989 and received a master's degree and PhD in computer science from

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Career

After graduating from college, Ramaswamy researched database analytics for three years at

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and held similar positions at

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and

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. While working for E.piphany as a

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systems developer, Google began recruiting engineers from the company. Ramaswamy joined Google in 2003 to work on the back-end infrastructure of

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as a mid-level engineer. He worked his way up the company over the course of 15 years. In 2013, he was promoted to senior vice president of advertising and commerce at Google. Ramaswamy left Google in 2018 to become a partner at

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firm

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. In 2019, he created Neeva as an alternative to

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, after becoming disillusioned with the limitations of the ad-supported search model. Instead of ads, Ramaswamy planned a subscription-based model for Neeva. Neeva was launched in the US in 2021 and the next year in the UK, France, and Germany; Neeva was acquired by Snowflake Inc. in 2023. In February 2024, Ramaswamy succeeded

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as Snowflake's CEO.

Personal life

Ramaswamy lives in

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, with his wife and two sons.

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