Sridhar Ramaswamy.

Sridhar Ramaswamy is a technology entrepreneur who served as CEO of Snowflake, the cloud data platform company that had the largest software IPO in history at $33 billion in 2020.

Before joining Snowflake, Ramaswamy founded Neeva, a privacy-first search engine that aimed to challenge Google's dominance by offering an ad-free, subscription-based search experience. Neeva was later acquired by Snowflake for its AI and search technology, and Ramaswamy was appointed CEO. Before founding Neeva, Ramaswamy spent 15 years at Google, where he served as Senior Vice President overseeing Google's $115 billion advertising business-one of the most commercially important operations in internet history. His transition from running Google's advertising empire to founding a privacy-first search engine to leading Snowflake demonstrates a rare combination of big-company leadership and startup entrepreneurship. Born in India, Ramaswamy's career arc from immigrant to leading one of America's most important data companies is remarkable.