The People With Power at Snowflake

Snowflake’s new CEO, Sridhar Ramaswamy, who took over from retiring chief executive Frank Slootman last week, inherited an unusual corporate structure. Ramaswamy has only four direct reports, much fewer than CEOs at most technology companies. By comparison, the CEOs of Salesforce and ServiceNow, two other large public software companies, have 12 and seven direct reports, respectively, according to The Information’s Org Charts.

The structure reflects how Slootman ran the maker of cloud-based database software; Snowflake said there haven’t been any changes in the week since the transition. The company declined to comment on any changes Ramaswamy plans to make, but people will presumably move around in coming months. Ramaswamy joined Snowflake last year when it bought Neeva, an artificial intelligence–fueled search engine that Ramaswamy co-founded. Until last week, he was Snowflake’s senior vice president of AI; no replacement for that role has yet been named.