Sridhar Ramaswamy appointed as Snowflake CEO

Bengaluru: Data cloud company Snowflake has appointed IIT Madras alumnus Sridhar Ramaswamy as its CEO and member of the board of directors effective immediately. He succeeds Frank Slootman who retired as CEO. Slootman, however, will continue to serve as chairman of the board. Ramaswamy previously held the position of SVP of AI at Snowflake.
Since joining Snowflake last year in connection with the company’s acquisition of search engine Neeva, Ramaswamy has been spearheading Snowflake’s AI strategy.He led the launch of Snowflake Cortex, Snowflake’s fully managed service that makes AI simple and secure for all users to quickly drive business value. Prior to joining Snowflake, Ramaswamy co-founded Neeva in 2019. “As the leading cloud data platform, Snowflake is at the epicentre of the AI revolution,” said Slootman. “There is no better person than Sridhar to lead Snowflake into this next phase of growth and deliver on the opportunity ahead in AI and machine learning. He is a visionary technologist with a proven track record of running and scaling successful businesses.”
“In the last 12 years, Frank and the entire team have established Snowflake as the leading cloud data platform that is providing enterprises with the secure, scalable and cost-effective data foundation and cutting-edge AI building blocks they need to build for the future,” said Ramaswamy. Previously, Ramaswamy led all of Google’s advertising products, which included search, display and video advertising, analytics, shopping, payments, and travel. During his 15 years at Google, he was an integral part of the growth of AdWords and Google’s advertising business from $1.5 billion to over $100 billion. Ramaswamy also held research positions at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore).