Snowflake, a cloud computing-based information cloud firm, elevated Sridhar Ramaswamy as chief government officer (CEO) and a member of the board of administrators of the corporate.

Ramaswamy might be succeeding outgoing CEO Frank Slootman, who will function the chairman of the board from right here on. This transfer makes Ramaswamy the latest entrant to the lengthy record of Indian-origin international CEOs.

The 57-year-old tech honcho was born within the city of Tiruchirappalli (Trichy) in Tamil Nadu, India.

Ramaswamy, earlier than shifting to the United States in 1989, had accomplished his bachelor’s diploma in laptop science from IIT Madras. After shifting to the US, he pursued his masters diploma and PhD in laptop science at Brown University

Ramaswamy began off his profession as a member of technical workers at Telcordia Technologies, later at Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies. He moved on to develop into Engineering Director at Epiphany. Later, he started his 15-year stint at Google, the place he rose up the ranks, ranging from the place of a software program engineer in 2003 and leaving the place of SVP, Ads and Commerce in 2018.

After leaving Google in 2018, Ramaswamy joined enterprise capital agency Greylock Partners as a associate. Fast-forward a yr, and he based Neeva together with one other ex-Google government, Vivek Raghunathan. Neeva was an ad-free, subscription-only search engine that was launched to handle the constraints of an ad-supported search platform. The firm, based in 2021, was acquired by Snowflake in 2023.

Ramaswamy is married, has two sons, and lives along with his household in Cupertino, California. The tech honcho beforehand talked about in his interviews that, aside from work, he’s very focussed on sustaining his health and engages in lots of bodily workout routines. He can also be an avid reader who’s fascinated by books on historical past and firms. He has learn the Lincoln biography, the historical past of the Qing Dynasty, and Master Switch, amongst quite a few others.