Sridhar Ramaswamy - Wikipedia
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Sridhar Ramaswamy | |
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Ramaswamy in 2020 | |
| Born | 1967 (age 55–56) |
| Alma mater | IIT Madras (BS) Brown University (MS, PhD) |
| Occupation | CEO |
| Known for | co-founding Neeva formerly running Google's ad business |
| Children | 2 |
Sridhar Ramaswamy (born 1967) is an American computer scientist. He is the cofounder and CEO of the startup company Neeva, an ad-free, privacy-focused search engine.[1][2] He previously led Google’s $115 billion advertising division.[1][3]
Early life and education [ edit ]
Ramaswamy was born in 1967 in Tamil Nadu, India. He attended IIT Madras and received a bachelor's degree in computer science.[4] He immigrated to the United States in 1989 and received a master's degree and PhD in computer science from Brown University.[1][4]
Career [ edit ]
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 E.piphany as a machine learning systems developer, Google began recruiting engineers from the company.[5][4]
Ramaswany joined Google in 2003 to work on the back-end infrastructure of AdWords as a mid-level engineer. He worked his way up the company over the course of 15 years.[5] In 2013, he was promoted to senior vice president of advertising and commerce at Google.[1][3]
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.[1] Neeva was launched in the US in 2021 and the next year in the UK, France, and Germany.[6][7]
Personal life [ edit ]
Ramaswamy lives in Cupertino, California, with his wife and two sons.[5]
References [ edit ]
External links [ edit ]
- Carlson, Nicholas (April 6, 2015). "This unknown Google exec fought a brutal internal battle and now controls a $60 billion business". Business Insider.
- Beck, Martin (May 21, 2015). "Google Ad Chief: "How Many Of Facebook's Video Views Are Engaged?" ". MarTech.
- Bergen, Mark (May 21, 2015). "Google's Ads Boss: We Are Not a Retailer and Don't Intend to Be One". Vox.