Sridhar Ramaswamy is renowned for his proficiency in web search technology and artificial intelligence.
We know many Indian CEOs of billion-dollar companies, such as Sundar Pichai of Google and Satya Nadella of Dell. However, there’s a new name on the list: Snowflake, a multibillionaire data cloud company with headquarters in Montana, has appointed Sridhar Ramaswamy, the former head of Google’s advertising division, as its new CEO. He is the first CEO of Indian descent at Snowflake. After 15 years of service and contributing to the growth of Google’s advertising division from $1.5 billion to over $100 billion, Ramaswamy left the company three years after Sundar Pichai assumed the CEO role.
Following the acquisition of his ad-free search engine, Neeva, he was named CEO of Snowflake and a member of the board of directors. He was Senior Vice President for Artificial Intelligence in the past. Snowflake current market captilaisation is Rs 399680 crore
Sridhar Ramaswamy is renowned for his proficiency in web search technology and artificial intelligence. He is guiding a staff of 6000 people from around the world towards new AI frontiers. Ramaswamy, a native of Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, enjoys reading and working out. He recently unveiled Neeva, the first private search engine free of advertisements, close to Google’s California headquarters. Ramaswamy started Neeva after becoming disillusioned with Google’s data-tracking practices for online advertising.
Vivek Raghunathan, a former vice president of engineering at Google, and Sridhar Ramaswamy, an IIT Madras graduate, co-founded Neeva. Unlike Google’s targeted advertising, Neeva aimed to provide an ad-free experience through affordable subscriptions. Despite her initial fame, Neeva was never able to break free from Google’s hegemony; nonetheless, nearly a dozen Google employees joined Neeva in different departments and roles.
The cofounders joined Neeva following Snowflake’s acquisition of the company in 2023. Sridhar’s background in machine learning development and his work as a researcher and database analyst at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and Epiphany, Inc. were valuable assets to Google’s advertising empire.