Anat Ashkenazi
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at alphabet
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.
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.
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