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{{Short description|Indian-American computer scientist and businessman}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Sridhar Ramaswamy
| image = 2020588 Sridhar Ramaswamy 38.jpg
| caption = Ramaswamy in 2020
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1967}}
| birth_place = [[Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| other_names =
| known_for = co-founding Neeva<br/>formerly running Google's ad business
| education = [[Indian Institute of Technology Madras|IIT Madras]] ([[Bachelor of Technology|BTech]])<br/> [[Brown University]] ([[Master of Science|MS]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
| title = CEO of [[Snowflake Inc.]]
| spouse =
| children = 2
| module = {{Infobox scientist |child=yes
| thesis_title = Indexing for Data Models with Classes and Constraints
| thesis_url = https://cs.brown.edu/media/filer_public/05/97/05970aad-cfca-4701-88c7-61429beb42be/ramaswamy.pdf
| thesis_year = 1995
| doctoral_advisor = [[Paris Kanellakis]]
}}
}}

'''Sridhar Ramaswamy''' (born 1967) is an Indian-American computer scientist and executive. He has been 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.<ref name="times">{{cite news |last1=Wakabayashi |first1=Daisuke |title=A Former Google Executive Takes Aim at His Old Company With a Start-Up |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/technology/google-neeva-executive.html |access-date=15 March 2021 |work=New York Times |date=21 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Swant |first1=Marty |title=After Building Google's Advertising Business, This Founder Is Creating An Ad-Free Alternative |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/martyswant/2021/03/08/after-building-googles-advertising-business-this-founder-is-creating-an-ad-free-alternative/?sh=55e4c63af6ac |access-date=15 March 2021 |work=Forbes |date=8 March 2021}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Ramaswamy was born in 1967 in [[Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu]], India.<ref>{{Cite thesis |url=https://cs.brown.edu/media/filer_public/05/97/05970aad-cfca-4701-88c7-61429beb42be/ramaswamy.pdf |title=Indexing for Data Models with Classes and Constraints |date=May 1995 |first=Sridhar |last=Ramaswamy |publisher=Brown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229051519/https://cs.brown.edu/media/filer_public/05/97/05970aad-cfca-4701-88c7-61429beb42be/ramaswamy.pdf |archive-date=29 February 2024 |url-status=live |access-date=29 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rajan |first=Nandagopal |date=24 January 2021 |title=Neeva founder Sridhar Ramaswamy: 'We guarantee that your data is used to serve you better results and for nothing else' |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/neeva-ceo-sridhar-ramaswamy-interview-7159192/ |work=The Indian Express |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208185134/https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/neeva-ceo-sridhar-ramaswamy-interview-7159192/ |archive-date=8 December 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> He received a bachelor's degree in computer science from [[Indian Institute of Technology Madras|IIT Madras]].<ref name="bloomberg">{{cite web |title=Sridhar Ramaswamy |url=http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=27542926&ticker=GOOG&previousCapId=29096&previousTitle=GOOGLE%2520INC-CL%2520A%20Bloomberg |website=Bloomberg.com |publisher=Bloomberg |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150523025429/http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=27542926&ticker=GOOG&previousCapId=29096&previousTitle=GOOGLE%2520INC-CL%2520A%20Bloomberg|access-date=25 March 2021|archive-date = 2015-05-23}}</ref> He immigrated to the United States in 1989 and received a master's degree and PhD in computer science from [[Brown University]].<ref name="times"/><ref name="bloomberg"/>

==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 [[Epiphany, Inc.|E.piphany]] as a [[machine learning]] systems developer, Google began recruiting engineers from the company.<ref name="efrati"/><ref name="bloomberg"/>

Ramaswamy joined Google in 2003 to work on the back-end infrastructure of [[Google Ads|AdWords]] as a mid-level engineer. He worked his way up the company over the course of 15 years.<ref name="efrati">{{cite news |last1=Efrati |first1=Amir |title=The Ascension of Google's Sridhar Ramaswamy |url=https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-ascension-of-google-s-sridhar-ramaswamy |access-date=15 March 2021 |work=The Information |date=6 April 2015}}</ref> In 2013, he was promoted to senior vice president of advertising and commerce at Google.<ref name="times"/><ref name="CNBC">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/01/google-ad-chief-sridhar-ramaswamy-leaves-for-greylock-ventures.html|title=The exec in charge of Google's biggest business leaves to join a venture firm|last=D'Onfro|first=Jillian|date=October 2, 2018|website=CNBC|archive-date=|access-date=October 2, 2018}}</ref>

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.<ref name="times"/> Neeva was launched in the US in 2021 and the next year in the UK, France, and Germany;<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63130364 | title=Ex-Google ad boss builds tracker-free search engine | date=5 October 2022 | publisher=BBC News |access-date= October 6, 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= Learn About The Creator Of The Revolutionary Ad-Free Search Engine |url= https://topaiblog.com/neeva-ai-founder/ |work=Top AI Blogs |access-date= April 2, 2023}}</ref> Neeva was acquired by [[Snowflake Inc.]] in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-24 |title=Snowflake acquires Neeva, days after the search startup pivots to enterprise |url=https://venturebeat.com/ai/snowflake-acquires-neeva-days-after-the-search-startup-pivots-to-enterprise/ |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US}}</ref> In February 2024, Ramaswamy succeeded [[Frank Slootman]] as Snowflake's CEO.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Vanian |first1=Jonathan |title=Snowflake says Frank Slootman is retiring as CEO; stock plunges 20% |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/28/snowflake-says-frank-slootman-is-retiring-as-ceo-stock-plunges-20percent.html |website=CNBC |access-date=28 February 2024 |language=en |date=28 February 2024}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Ramaswamy lives in [[Cupertino, California]], with his wife and two sons.<ref name="efrati"/>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite news |last1=Carlson |first1=Nicholas |title=This unknown Google exec fought a brutal internal battle and now controls a $60 billion business |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/google-exec-sridhar-ramaswamy-controls-a-60-billion-business-2015-4 |work=Business Insider |date=April 6, 2015}}
*{{cite news |last1=Beck |first1=Martin |title=Google Ad Chief: "How Many Of Facebook's Video Views Are Engaged?" |url=http://marketingland.com/google-ad-chief-how-many-of-facebooks-video-views-are-engaged-129644 |work=MarTech |date=May 21, 2015 |language=en}}
*{{cite news |last1=Bergen |first1=Mark |title=Google's Ads Boss: We Are Not a Retailer and Don't Intend to Be One |url=http://recode.net/2015/05/21/googles-ads-boss-we-are-not-a-retailer-and-dont-intend-to-be-one/ |work=Vox |date=May 21, 2015 |language=en}}

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[[Category:IIT Madras alumni]]
[[Category:Businesspeople from Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Indian emigrants to the United States]]
[[Category:American people of Indian Tamil descent]]

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