PROFILE
Ruth Porat
President & Chief Investment Officer,Alphabet
$510M
2025 America's Richest Self-Made Women Net Worth
as of 6/3/25
Photo by Sadie Mellerio
From the Editor
- Ruth Porat is president and chief investment officer of Google's parent company, Alphabet. She served as Chief Financial Officer at the company from 2015 to mid-2024.
- Prior to Google, Porat rose through the ranks at Morgan Stanley over a 27-year career to become chief financial officer in 2010.
- Porat has been praised for reining in spending on some of Google's "other bets," including delivering its own wireless service.
- In 2020, Porat joined the board of Wall Street investment firm Blackstone.
- Porat has spoken and written about being a breast cancer survivor; more than 15 years ago, she was diagnosed two times with the disease.
Wealth History
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Personal Stats
- Age
- 67
- Source of Wealth
- Google, Self Made
- Residence
- Palo Alto, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Master of Science, London School of Economics; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Stanford University; Master of Business Administration, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
Did you know
As a proponent of "doing better on sexual harassment," she asked, "If you can get cars to self-drive, why can't we solve this?"
In Their Own Words
For me, going to work meant that I was in control of my life. The disease [cancer] did not define me. And so in many respects work was a really important part of me being healthy.
Ruth Porat
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