Snowflake executive team & leadership
Snowflake's executive team includes 17 tracked leaders as of 2026-10-02, led by Sridhar Ramaswamy (Chief Executive Officer). The org chart, per-leader profiles and full leadership list are below.
Snowflake executive team overview
Snowflake has 17 tracked executives leading key functions including company strategy and operations, financial strategy, technology strategy and engineering, marketing (as of 2026-10-02). Snowflake Inc. is an American cloud data platform company incorporated in Delaware, with its principal business address at 135 Constitution Drive in Menlo Park, California, and its common stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SNOW. Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Zukowski, three database architects, two of them from Oracle, founded the company in 2012 around the idea of separating storage from compute so that a data warehouse could run natively on public cloud infrastructure. That product line is now marketed as the AI Data Cloud and covers data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, application development and governed data sharing across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Fiscal 2026, which ended January 31, 2026, closed with total revenues of 4.68 billion dollars and product revenues of 4.47 billion dollars, up 29 percent, a net revenue retention rate of 125 percent and more than 13,900 customers, including 790 of the Forbes Global 2000. Sridhar Ramaswamy, who joined through the 2023 acquisition of his search startup Neeva and spent 15 years running advertising at Google, has been chief executive officer since February 2024. Frank Slootman, who led the company through its 2020 initial public offering, is chairman of the board.
Snowflake executive team org chart
Sridhar RamaswamyChief Executive Officer- BRBrian RobinsChief Financial Officer
- SMS. MuralidharChief Technology Officer
- DPDenise PerssonChief Marketing Officer
- BDBenoit DagevilleCo-Founder and Strategic Advisor
- TCThierry CruanesCo-Founder
- JBJon BeaulierChief Revenue Officer
- CKChristian KleinermanExecutive Vice President, Product
- VRVivek RaghunathanSenior Vice President of Engineering
- AGArnnon GeshuriChief People Officer
- MBMike BlandinaChief Information Officer
- MUMayank UpadhyayChief Security and Trust Officer
- SLStella LowChief Communications Officer
- JTJeff TrueGeneral Counsel
- JBJeremy BurtonGeneral Manager, Observability Business Unit
- AMAnn Marie LavigneHead of Strategic Initiatives and Government Affairs
- FS
Frank SlootmanChairman of the Board
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Employees by management level
| Name | Profiles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Executive officers and C-level | 17 | 0.1% |
| EVP and SVP | 120 | 0.9% |
| VP | 420 | 3.3% |
| Director | 1,400 | 11% |
| Manager | 2,600 | 21% |
| Individual contributor | 8,085 | 64% |
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Leadership team
| Leader | Location | Profile | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SRSridhar RamaswamyChief Executive Officer | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → | |
| BRBrian RobinsChief Financial Officer | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → | |
| SMS. MuralidharChief Technology Officer | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → | |
| DPDenise PerssonChief Marketing Officer | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → | |
| BDBenoit DagevilleCo-Founder and Strategic Advisor | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → | |
| TCThierry CruanesCo-Founder | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → | |
| JBJon BeaulierChief Revenue Officer | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → | |
| CKChristian KleinermanExecutive Vice President, Product | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → | |
| VRVivek RaghunathanSenior Vice President of Engineering | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → | |
| AGArnnon GeshuriChief People Officer | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → | |
| MBMike BlandinaChief Information Officer | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → | |
| MUMayank UpadhyayChief Security and Trust Officer | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → | |
| SLStella LowChief Communications Officer | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → | |
| JTJeff TrueGeneral Counsel | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → | |
| JBJeremy BurtonGeneral Manager, Observability Business Unit | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → | |
| AMAnn Marie LavigneHead of Strategic Initiatives and Government Affairs | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → | |
| FSFrank SlootmanChairman of the Board | ••••@snowflake.com | Profile → |
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Snowflake executive team roles
Sridhar Ramaswamy · full profile →
Chief Executive Officer
Sridhar Ramaswamy is the chief executive officer of Snowflake, a role he took in February 2024. He arrived at the company through the 2023 acquisition of Neeva, the ad-free search engine he co-founded in 2019, and initially led Snowflake's AI work as senior vice president of AI. Before Neeva he spent more than 15 years at Google, joining as a software engineer and rising to senior vice president of ads and commerce, a period during which the advertising business grew from roughly 1.5 billion dollars to more than 100 billion dollars in annual revenue. He was also a venture partner at Greylock Partners. He began his career at Bell Labs, holds a bachelor of technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and earned a master's degree and a doctorate in computer science from Brown University.
Brian Robins · full profile →
Chief Financial Officer
Brian Robins is the chief financial officer of Snowflake, effective September 22, 2025, succeeding Mike Scarpelli, who retired from the role and stayed on to support the transition. He joined from GitLab, where he had been chief financial officer since October 2020 with responsibility for accounting, tax, treasury, corporate finance, investor relations and the company's data and business systems functions. Earlier in his career he served as chief financial officer of Sisense, Cylance, AlienVault and Verisign.
S. Muralidhar · full profile →
Chief Technology Officer
S. Muralidhar is Chief Technology Officer of Snowflake, which he joined in 2017. Before becoming CTO he held software engineering and Technical Fellow roles at Snowflake, working on data infrastructure, the metadata framework and the product platform. He previously worked at Microsoft and Oracle.
Denise Persson · full profile →
Chief Marketing Officer
Denise Persson is the chief marketing officer of Snowflake, a role she has held since 2016, and she has been part of the company's growth from roughly 1 million dollars in revenue to more than 2 billion dollars. She brings more than twenty five years of technology marketing experience at high-growth companies. Before Snowflake she was chief marketing officer of Apigee, the API platform company that went public in 2015 and was acquired by Google in 2016. She started her career at the collaboration software company Genesys, where she built and led a global marketing organisation through its initial public offering and subsequent acquisition. She holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics from Stockholm University and an M.B.A. from Georgetown University.
Benoit Dageville · full profile →
Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor
Benoit Dageville is a co-founder of Snowflake and serves as a strategic advisor to the company. He started Snowflake in 2012 with Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Zukowski around the idea of rebuilding the data warehouse for public cloud infrastructure, with storage and compute separated so that each could scale on its own. Before founding the company he spent more than a decade at Oracle as a data architect working on the database engine, and he has previously served as Snowflake's president of product.
Thierry Cruanes · full profile →
Co-Founder
Thierry Cruanes is a co-founder of Snowflake, which he started in 2012 with Benoit Dageville and Marcin Zukowski. He spent 13 years at Oracle working on the optimization and parallelization layers of the Oracle database, including a period leading the optimization group, and that work on query optimization shaped the execution engine behind Snowflake's platform. He has previously held the chief technology officer role at the company.
Jon Beaulier · full profile →
Chief Revenue Officer
Jon Beaulier became Chief Revenue Officer of Snowflake on March 31, 2026, succeeding Mike Gannon at the head of the revenue and go-to-market teams. He joined Snowflake in 2016 and held several senior sales roles there. Before his appointment he was GVP of U.S. Majors Sales from August 2024, and before that VP of Sales for Financial Services and Insurance from February 2022.
Christian Kleinerman · full profile →
Executive Vice President, Product
Christian Kleinerman is executive vice president of product at Snowflake, where he owns global product strategy and vision. He joined the company in 2018 and is a named inventor on a number of its patents. He brings more than twenty years of work on database technology and more than fifteen years of engineering and product management leadership. He began his career on the SQL Server team at Microsoft and went on to serve as general manager of the data warehousing product unit there, with responsibility for a broad portfolio of products. He then moved to Google, where he led infrastructure and data systems for YouTube. He holds a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering from Los Andes University in Colombia.
Vivek Raghunathan · full profile →
Senior Vice President of Engineering
Vivek Raghunathan co-founded Neeva, an AI search engine that Snowflake acquired in May 2023, and now leads engineering work at Snowflake. Before that he spent more than a decade at Google as a VP of engineering, where he led the YouTube monetization team and was part of the core group that launched the Google Now assistant.
Arnnon Geshuri · full profile →
Chief People Officer
Arnnon Geshuri is the chief people officer of Snowflake, a role he took in September 2024. He arrived from Teladoc Health, where he held the same title at the virtual healthcare company. Before that he spent eight years as vice president of human resources at Tesla, from 2009 to 2017, a period in which the company grew from roughly 400 people to more than 35,000 worldwide. Earlier he was senior director of recruiting operations at Google and its first chief staffing architect, building the recruiting organisation and talent acquisition strategy that took the workforce from about 2,500 to more than 25,000 employees. He attended the University of California, Irvine and San Jose State University.
Mike Blandina · full profile →
Chief Information Officer
Mike Blandina oversees global IT, data and security functions at Snowflake. He was previously CIO of Payments at J.P. Morgan and, before that, Chief Executive Officer of Bakkt. Earlier he was Head of Payments Engineering at PayPal and led Google's Payments Engineering and Wallet Engineering teams. He served four years in the United States Army.
Mayank Upadhyay · full profile →
Chief Security and Trust Officer
Mayank Upadhyay joined Snowflake to lead security and trust, a hire the company announced in April 2026. He previously spent more than two decades at Google, where he became a Distinguished Engineer and was the first engineer on BeyondCorp, Google's zero trust architecture. He later served as Vice President of Engineering responsible for the security of Google Cloud.
Stella Low · full profile →
Chief Communications Officer
Stella Low joined Snowflake in October 2025 to lead the company's communications strategy, reporting to Chief Marketing Officer Denise Persson. She was previously Chief Communications and Corporate Affairs Officer at HP and Chief Communications Officer at Cisco. She has also led communications at Apple and Dell.
Jeff True · full profile →
General Counsel
Jeff True oversees legal, compliance, regulatory and policy strategy at Snowflake. He was previously Chief Legal Officer at Abnormal AI, which he joined in March 2024. Before that he led the legal function at Zoom.
Jeremy Burton · full profile →
General Manager, Observability Business Unit
Jeremy Burton is general manager of the observability business unit at Snowflake, a role he took when the company closed its acquisition of Observe, the AI-powered observability platform he ran as chief executive officer. He had served on Snowflake's board of directors since 2015 and resigned from it when the acquisition closed. Before Observe he was executive vice president of marketing and corporate development at Dell Technologies, and president of products at EMC, where he oversaw a 15 billion dollar business. Earlier in his career he held senior leadership roles at Veritas, Symantec and Oracle.
Ann Marie Lavigne · full profile →
Head of Strategic Initiatives and Government Affairs
Ann Marie Lavigne leads Strategic Initiatives and Government Affairs at Snowflake, working across the executive team to define and execute company strategy. Before joining Snowflake she led Strategy and Operations at enterprise AI startup Primer AI. She previously spent fourteen years at Google building and leading Strategy and Operations, Sales and Partnerships functions in Sydney, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore and the US.
Frank Slootman · full profile →
Chairman of the Board
Frank Slootman is the chairman of Snowflake's board of directors. He served as chief executive officer from 2019 until February 2024, a period that covered the company's September 2020 initial public offering, at the time the largest software listing on record. Before Snowflake he was chief executive officer of ServiceNow, which he took public in 2012, and president of the backup recovery systems division at EMC following its acquisition of Data Domain, where he had also been chief executive officer.