# Ruth Porat
> President and Chief Investment Officer, Alphabet and Google at alphabet
- Profile type: Person
- Profile status: baseline
- Last updated: 2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Canonical URL: https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/ruth-porat/
- Also known as: Ruth M. Porat
## Summary
President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google since September 2023, after nearly a decade as Alphabet's CFO. Previously CFO of Morgan Stanley from 2010 to 2015. Among the most influential CFOs of the 2010s tech era; her successor Anat Ashkenazi took the CFO seat in July 2024.

## Profile facts

- Current title: President and Chief Investment Officer, Alphabet and Google
- Current company: alphabet (https://thestateofstreaming.com/companies/alphabet/)


## Career trajectory

- 1987-01-01 — Investment Banking, early career at morgan-stanley. Began career at Morgan Stanley in 1987; left in 1993 with Robert F. Greenhill to Smith Barney, returned to Morgan Stanley in 1996.
- 2003-09-01 — Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at morgan-stanley. Served as vice chairman of investment banking from September 2003 to December 2009; concurrently global head of the Financial Institutions Group from September 2006.
- 2010-01-01 — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at morgan-stanley. Served as Morgan Stanley CFO from January 2010 to May 2015. Named 'Best Financial Institutions CFO' on Institutional Investor's 2014 All-America Executive Team.
- 2015-05-26 — Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at alphabet. Joined Google as CFO effective May 26, 2015 (announced March 24, 2015). Continued as Alphabet/Google CFO through the August 2015 Alphabet reorganization.
- 2023-09-01 — President and Chief Investment Officer at alphabet. Promoted to newly created role overseeing Other Bets, GV, CapitalG, real estate, infrastructure, and policy/regulatory engagement. Continued as CFO until a successor was named.
- 2024-07-31 — Stepped down as CFO; full-time President & CIO at alphabet. Anat Ashkenazi succeeded Porat as CFO effective July 31, 2024, ending Porat's nearly decade-long tenure as Alphabet's finance chief.

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## Key facts

- Promoted to the newly created role of President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google effective September 1, 2023. — CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/07/25/alphabet-cfo-ruth-porat-leaving-role-to-become-president-and-chief-investment-officer.html
- Served as Alphabet/Google's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from May 2015 until July 2024 — the company's longest-tenured finance chief. — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Porat
- Anat Ashkenazi succeeded Porat as Alphabet CFO effective July 31, 2024, after Ashkenazi was hired from Eli Lilly. — CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/05/alphabet-taps-eli-lillys-anat-ashkenazi-as-new-cfo.html
- Was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Morgan Stanley from January 2010 to May 2015. — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Porat
- Current responsibilities at Alphabet include corporate investments and investment vehicles (GV, CapitalG), the Other Bets portfolio, real estate and workplace services, and global policy/regulatory engagement. — World Economic Forum: https://www.weforum.org/people/ruth-porat/


## Related

- alphabet (President and Chief Investment Officer) — https://thestateofstreaming.com/companies/alphabet/
- anat ashkenazi (successor as Alphabet CFO) — https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/anat-ashkenazi/
- sundar pichai (reports to (CEO of Alphabet and Google)) — https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/sundar-pichai/
- morgan stanley (former CFO (2010–2015)) — https://thestateofstreaming.com/companies/morgan-stanley/


## External coverage

- 2023-07-25 — CNBC: Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat leaving role to become president and chief investment officer (https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/07/25/alphabet-cfo-ruth-porat-leaving-role-to-become-president-and-chief-investment-officer.html)
- 2024-06-05 — CNBC: Alphabet taps Eli Lilly's Anat Ashkenazi as new CFO (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/05/alphabet-taps-eli-lillys-anat-ashkenazi-as-new-cfo.html)
- 2020-06-25 — Blackstone: Ruth Porat, Alphabet and Google CFO, Joins Blackstone's Board of Directors (https://www.blackstone.com/news/press/ruth-porat-alphabet-and-google-cfo-joins-blackstone-s-board-of-directors/)
- World Economic Forum: Ruth Porat — President and Chief Investment Officer, Alphabet and Google (https://www.weforum.org/people/ruth-porat/)
- 2015-03-24 — BuzzFeed News: Google Hires Morgan Stanley's Ruth Porat As Chief Financial Officer (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/matthewzeitlin/google-hires-morgan-stanleys-ruth-porat-as-chief-financial-o)

## Profile
Ruth Porat's center of gravity at Alphabet shifted in September 2023 from running the books to running the capital — a move that quietly redrew the lines of authority around Other Bets, GV, CapitalG, real estate, and the company's policy and regulatory posture. The CFO seat she held for nearly a decade passed to Eli Lilly's Anat Ashkenazi in July 2024, but Porat's footprint at Alphabet expanded rather than receded. For a CTV/streaming audience, her remit matters because the same hand that imposed Alphabet's financial discipline through the YouTube ad-tier era and the post-COVID cost reset now sits over the company's long-horizon infrastructure and investment bets — including the data-center buildout that underwrites YouTube and Google's AI ambitions.

## Tags

- alphabet
- google
- cfo
- finance
- leadership
- investment

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