Ruth Porat

President and Chief Investment Officer, Alphabet and Google Alphabet

Last Reviewed: October 1, 2026

Executive Summary

Ruth Porat is President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google, a role she has held since September 2023. For nine years before that she was the company’s Chief Financial Officer, from May 2015 until Anat Ashkenazi took over in July 2024. She came to Google from Morgan Stanley, where she spent almost two decades in investment banking leadership before serving as chief financial officer from 2010 to 2015. She sits on the board of Blackstone. Alphabet ranked No. 5 on the 2026 Fortune 500.

Career Highlights

• President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google since September 2023.
• Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Alphabet and Google, May 2015 to July 2024.
• Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Morgan Stanley, January 2010 to May 2015.
• Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and other senior roles at Morgan Stanley, 1996 to 2009.
• Director of Blackstone Inc.

Professional Journey

Porat earned a Bachelor of Arts at Stanford University, a Master of Science at The London School of Economics and an MBA at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

She joined Morgan Stanley in February 1996 and held a series of executive positions there through 2009, including Global Head of the Financial Institutions Group, Global Co-Head of Technology Investment Banking and Vice Chairman of Investment Banking. In January 2010 she became Morgan Stanley’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

In May 2015 she joined Google as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Google and, later, Alphabet. In September 2023 she became President and Chief Investment Officer, and she continued as CFO until July 2024.

Outside Alphabet she is a director of Blackstone, serves on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations and Bloomberg Philanthropies, and is a trustee of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Education

Stanford University

Bachelor of Arts

The London School of Economics

Master of Science

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

MBA