Ruth Porat
President and Chief Investment Officer, Alphabet and Google at alphabet
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.
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.
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