The IIT-ian Sridhar Ramaswamy: The New CEO of Snowflake

Sridhar Ramaswamy, he was born in 1967 in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India, and he is an Indian American computer scientist. He graduated from IIT Madras and obtained a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.

He went to USA (United States of America) in 1989 to complete his studies and received a Master’s degree and PhD in Computer Science from Brown University.

When you talking about tech industries, Ramaswamy has had a stunning career in it. He joined Google in 2003 and was an important part of the growth of Google AdWords and Google‘s Advertising business. In 2019, he started Neeva as Co-Founder. Neeva offers ad-free, privacy-focused search engine. Later in 2023 Neeva was acquired by Snowflake.

Ramaswamy's Journey to Snowflake

On February 29, 2024, Sridhar Ramaswamy was appointed as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Snowflake, a US-based data cloud company. He succeeded Frank Slootman and joined the illustrious list of Indian-origin CEOs leading global companies.

Ramaswamy‘s appointment in Snowflake has come with great excitement and anticipation. Before the CEO Post he was the senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Snowflake. He heads the launch of Snowflake‘s Cortex stack, a fully managed service that makes AI simple and secure for all users.

Sridhar Ramaswamy Salary

While the exact salary of Sridhar Ramaswamy as the CEO of Snowflake CEO salary is not publicly disclosed, it is safe to say that his compensation is commensurate with his role and responsibilities as of a major tech company.

What Snowflake Do

Snowflake is a cloud data platform, provides a data warehouse service which is designed for the cloud. The platform is built for the cloud, focusing on instant, secure, governed access to an entire network of data. It is built to enable a variety of data workloads, including a single platform for developing modern data applications. Snowflake has become a global destination to help mobilize the world’s data.

Users can store and analyze data using cloud-based hardware and software. Snowflake services offer various features like, separation of storage and compute, on-the-fly scalable compute, Data sharing, Data Cloning, and Third-Party tools support to scale with its enterprise customers. Check more…

Sridhar Ramaswamy‘s appointment as the CEO of Snowflake marks a new chapter in the company’s journey. His vast Experience and Leadership help more Snowflake to continue its growth trajectory and solidify its position as a leader in the Data Cloud Space.

Indian-origin CEOs

Here the list of some Indian-origin CEOs leading Global Companies here are some of them:

 

Name

Position

Company

Since

Sundar Pichai

CEO

Alphabet Inc. (Google)

2015

Satya Nadella

CEO

Microsoft Corporation

2014

Vivek Sankaran

CEO

Albertsons Companies

2019

Arvind Krishna

CEO

IBM

2020

Vasant Narasimhan

CEO

Novartis AG

2018

Sanjay Mehrotra

CEO

Micron Technology

2017

Laxman Narasimhan

CEO

Starbucks

2023

Revathi Advaithi

CEO

Flex Ltd.

2019

Neal Mohan

CEO

YouTube

2023

Shantanu Narayen

CEO

Adobe Inc.

2007

Niraj Shah

CEO

Wayfair

2002

George Kurian

CEO

NetApp

2015

Leena Nair

CEO

Chanel

2022

Ravi Kumar S

CEO

Cognizant

2023

Nikesh Arora

CEO

Palo Alto Networks

2018

These Strong Leadership have achieved remarkable success and are now considered among the Indian origin most influential CEOs in the world. Read more about how do you become a successful CEO?

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