Data + AI Predictions 2024

Benoit co-founded Snowflake and currently serves as President of the Product division. Benoit is a leading expert in parallel execution and self-tuning database systems. Prior to founding Snowflake, Benoit was with Oracle for 15 years as a lead architect for parallel execution in Oracle RAC and a key architect in the SQL Manageability group. Prior to Oracle, Benoit worked at Bull Information Systems. He helped define the architecture and lead database performance efforts for Bull’s parallel systems. Benoit has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in Parallel Database Systems and holds more than 80 patents.

Sunny Bedi serves as the Chief Information & Data Officer at Snowflake. Prior to joining Snowflake, Sunny held Corporate IT and Operations leadership roles at Nvidia from 2008-2020 as they scaled from less than 2,000 employees to 15,000. Previously, Sunny has held leadership roles at VMWARE, JDSU, Deloitte Consulting and Andersen Consulting. He holds a BS and MBA from University of San Francisco, and Executive Education in Leadership and Technology from Stanford University.

Mario Duarte has 19 years of experience as a security professional working in the retail, health care, and financial sectors. He has built and managed security teams, developed and implemented security programs, and managed PCI and HIPAA compliance initiatives for medium and large organizations. Mario holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of San Francisco.

Sridhar Ramaswamy currently serves as Snowflake’s CEO. After joining Snowflake in May 2023 in connection with the company’s acquisition of Neeva, the world’s first private AI powered search engine, Sridhar spearheaded Snowflake’s AI strategy as SVP of AI. Prior to joining Snowflake, Sridhar co-founded Neeva in 2019.

Prior to founding Neeva, Sridhar led all of Google’s Advertising products, which included search, display and video advertising, analytics, shopping, payments, and travel. During his 15 years at Google, he was an integral part of the growth of AdWords and Google’s advertising business from $1.5 billion to over $100 billion. He also held research positions at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). Sridhar was a Venture Partner at Greylock Partners from October 2018 until recently, and he sits on the board of trustees at Brown University.

Prasanna leads product management for data sharing in the Snowflake Data Marketplace. The Data Marketplace enables businesses to seamlessly discover, use, and share all of the data and knowledge that they need to drive insights and answer business questions instantly. Prior to joining Snowflake in 2018, Prasanna built new products at companies such as Microsoft and Comcast. She also worked at venture-backed startups, including SmartyPal which she founded and led. Prasanna has her MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.