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Sridhar Ramaswamy

Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors, Snowflake

  • Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors, Snowflake12

Sridhar Ramaswamy is the Chief Executive Officer of Snowflake. Ramaswamy joined Snowflake in May 2023 through the company's acquisition of Neeva, which Ramaswamy co-founded in 2019, and led Snowflake's AI strategy as Senior Vice President of AI before being named CEO in February 2024. Earlier, Ramaswamy spent 15 years at Google, where Ramaswamy led the company's advertising products.12

At a glance

Current role
Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors
Company
Snowflake
Sector
Company
Work listed
1
Sources cited
2
Profile reviewed

Career

Ramaswamy held research positions at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). Over 15 years at Google, Ramaswamy led the company's advertising products, which covered search, display and video advertising, analytics, shopping, payments and travel.12

Ramaswamy co-founded Neeva in 2019, a search engine built around AI and privacy. Snowflake acquired Neeva in May 2023, and Ramaswamy joined Snowflake as Senior Vice President of AI.12

Snowflake

As Senior Vice President of AI, Ramaswamy led Snowflake's AI strategy and the launch of Snowflake Cortex. On February 28, 2024, Snowflake announced that Ramaswamy had been named Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, succeeding Frank Slootman, who remained Chairman.2

Work and contributions

  • Snowflake Cortex Proprietary product

    Led the launch of Snowflake Cortex, a fully managed Snowflake service for using AI on data in the platform, while serving as Senior Vice President of AI.2

Timeline

  1. Co-founded Neeva, a search engine built around AI and privacy.2
  2. Joined Snowflake through its acquisition of Neeva and became Senior Vice President of AI.12
  3. Named Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Snowflake.2

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

  • Senior Vice President of AI (2023–2024), Snowflake2
  • Co-founder (2019), Neeva12
  • Led Google's advertising products over a 15-year tenure, Google12

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References

2 sources · profile reviewed Oct 22, 2026 · data updated Oct 22, 2026

  1. Snowflake — Leadership and Board (Sridhar Ramaswamy, Chief Executive Officer)Snowflake · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  2. Sridhar Ramaswamy Named Chief Executive Officer of Snowflake, Frank Slootman remains Chairman of the BoardSnowflake · Announcement · published Feb 28, 2024 · accessed Oct 22, 2026