Sridhar Ramaswamy

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Sridhar Ramaswamy
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Ramaswamy in 2020
Born1967 (age 56–57)
Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
Education IIT Madras (BS)
Brown University (MS, PhD)
Known forco-founding Neeva
formerly running Google's ad business
TitleCEO of Snowflake Inc.
Children2
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]

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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]

Ramaswany 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]

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  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. 1 2 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.
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  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.
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