# Anat Ashkenazi
> Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at alphabet
- Profile type: Person
- Profile status: baseline
- Last updated: 2026-05-04T00:00:00.000Z
- Canonical URL: https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/anat-ashkenazi/
- Also known as: Anat A., Google CFO, Alphabet CFO, Anat Ashkenazi Google, Anat Ashkenazi Alphabet
## Summary
Anat Ashkenazi is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Google, a role she assumed July 31, 2024. She succeeded Ruth Porat and joined from Eli Lilly, where she spent 23 years and served as CFO from 2021, presiding over the GLP-1 drug ramp that tripled Lilly's market cap.

## Profile facts

- Current title: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
- Current company: alphabet (https://thestateofstreaming.com/companies/alphabet/)


## Career trajectory

- 2001-01-01 — Joins Eli Lilly and Company in finance at Eli Lilly and Company. Began 23-year tenure across strategy, finance, and Six Sigma roles.
- 2016-01-01 — Senior Vice President, Controller and CFO of Lilly Research Laboratories at Eli Lilly and Company. Oversaw CFOs of commercial businesses, R&D, manufacturing and quality, and G&A functions.
- 2021-02-09 — Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Eli Lilly and Company at Eli Lilly and Company. Succeeded Josh Smiley as Lilly's CFO; presided over the launch and scale-up of GLP-1 drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound.
- 2024-06-05 — Announced as incoming Alphabet CFO at Alphabet Inc.. Alphabet announces Ashkenazi will succeed Ruth Porat as SVP and CFO; Porat continues as President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google.
- 2024-07-31 — Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Alphabet and Google at Alphabet Inc.. Officially assumes the CFO role at Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG/GOOGL).


## Media appearances

- 2026-03-03 — panel: Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference — fireside chat, Morgan Stanley / Alphabet IR (https://abc.xyz/investor/events/event-details/2026/Anat-Ashkenazi-SVP-and-CFO-of-Alphabet-and-Google-at-the-Morgan-Stanley-Technology-Media-and-Telecom-Conference-on-March-3-2026-2026-r9dUUoVl6o/default.aspx)

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## Key facts

- Anat Ashkenazi became Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alphabet and Google effective July 31, 2024, succeeding Ruth Porat. — CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/05/alphabet-taps-eli-lillys-anat-ashkenazi-as-new-cfo.html
- Predecessor Ruth Porat, Alphabet's CFO from 2015 to 2024, transitioned to President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google. — CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/07/25/alphabet-cfo-ruth-porat-leaving-role-to-become-president-and-chief-investment-officer.html
- Before Alphabet, Ashkenazi spent 23 years at Eli Lilly and Company, serving as Senior Vice President and CFO of Eli Lilly from February 2021 until her departure to Alphabet in 2024. — Eli Lilly via PR Newswire: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lilly-appoints-anat-ashkenazi-chief-financial-officer-301224451.html
- On Alphabet's Q1 2026 earnings call, Ashkenazi raised full-year 2026 capital-expenditure guidance to $180–190 billion (from $175–185 billion) and said 2027 CapEx would 'significantly increase compared to 2026,' citing 'unprecedented internal and external demand for AI compute resources.' — CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/alphabet-googl-q1-2026-earnings.html
- Ashkenazi disclosed Google Cloud Q1 2026 revenue of $20 billion and operating income of $6.6 billion (margin 32.9%, up from 17.8% a year earlier), with backlog of $462 billion at quarter-end. — CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/alphabet-googl-q1-2026-earnings.html


## Related

- alphabet (CFO) — https://thestateofstreaming.com/companies/alphabet/
- eli lilly (former CFO (2021–2024)) — https://thestateofstreaming.com/companies/eli-lilly/
- ruth porat (predecessor as Alphabet CFO) — https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/ruth-porat/
- sundar pichai (reports to (Alphabet CEO)) — https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/sundar-pichai/


## External coverage

- 2024-06-05 — Alphabet Investor Relations: Anat Ashkenazi to Join Google and Alphabet as Chief Financial Officer (https://alphabet2025ir.q4web.com/investor/news/news-details/2024/Anat-Ashkenazi-to-Join-Google-and-Alphabet-as-Chief-Financial-Officer-06-05-2024/default.aspx)
- 2026-03-03 — Alphabet Investor Relations: Anat Ashkenazi at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference (https://abc.xyz/investor/events/event-details/2026/Anat-Ashkenazi-SVP-and-CFO-of-Alphabet-and-Google-at-the-Morgan-Stanley-Technology-Media-and-Telecom-Conference-on-March-3-2026-2026-r9dUUoVl6o/default.aspx)
- 2026-04-29 — CNBC: Alphabet (GOOGL) Q1 2026 earnings (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/alphabet-googl-q1-2026-earnings.html)
- 2024-06-05 — Eli Lilly Investor Relations: Lilly announces departure of Anat Ashkenazi, chief financial officer (https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-details/lilly-announces-departure-anat-ashkenazi-chief-financial-officer)
- 2021-02-09 — Eli Lilly via PR Newswire: Lilly Appoints Anat Ashkenazi Chief Financial Officer (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lilly-appoints-anat-ashkenazi-chief-financial-officer-301224451.html)

## Profile
Ashkenazi is the voice on the other side of Alphabet's quarterly capital-expenditure number — the figure that sets the AI-infrastructure spending bar the rest of the industry benchmarks against. Her Q1 2026 raise to $180–190 billion in 2026 CapEx, and the on-record signal that 2027 will be higher still, is the framing that buyers, sellers, and competitors trade against.

The trajectory is unusual for a Big Tech CFO: 23 years at Eli Lilly across operating divisions before three years as the parent company's CFO, where she presided over the GLP-1 ramp that tripled Lilly's market cap. The pattern Alphabet hired for is operating-finance experience at scale, not a Silicon Valley resume.
## Coverage on The State of Streaming
- [YouTube Ads Hit $9.88B in Q1 — The Subscription Mix Is Catching Up](https://thestateofstreaming.com/platforms/2026/05/youtube-q1-2026-ad-revenue-trajectory/) — 2026-05-04

## Tags

- executive
- cfo
- alphabet
- google
- big-tech
- ai-capex
- pharma-to-tech

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