Ruth Porat

Ruth Porat
Born	1957 Sale, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Stanford University London School of Economics Wharton School
Employer	Alphabet Inc.
Title	Chief Financial Officer
Spouse(s)	Anthony Paduano
Children	3

Ruth Porat (born 1957) is a British-born American financial executive, who is the current Chief Financial Officer of Alphabet Inc (of which Google is a subsidiary) as of May 2015. She was the CFO and Executive Vice President of Morgan Stanley from January 2010 to May 2015.

Porat was born to a Jewish family in Sale, Greater Manchester England, the daughter of Dr. Dan and Frieda Porat. She moved at a young age to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her father was a research fellow in the physics department at Harvard University. Her father later relocated the family to Palo Alto, California where he worked at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory for 26 years. Porat has a bachelor of arts degree in Economics & International Relations from Stanford University, and holds a master of science degree in industrial relations from London School of Economics and an MBA with distinction from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Porat started her career at Morgan Stanley in 1987 but left to follow Morgan Stanley President Robert F. Greenhill to Smith Barney in 1993 and returned to Morgan Stanley in 1996. Before becoming CFO, she served as Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, from September 2003 to December 2009 and Global Head of the Financial Institutions Group from September 2006 through December 2009. She was previously the co-head of Technology Investment Banking and worked for Morgan Stanley in London. Her financial partner during the Internet investment banking craze was Mary Meeker, who is the godmother to Porat's three children.

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