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Anat Ashkenazi

: Alphabet Revenue: US $ 402.8bn Founded: 1998
Anat Ashkenazi crossed an unusual bridge to become Alphabet’ s Chief Financial Officer in July 2024, leaving 23 years in pharmaceutical finance at Eli Lilly for the churn of Big Tech. She arrived to impose discipline on Google’ s vast AI spending, pressing the company to“ push a little further”, according to CNBC, on efficiency even as the data centre bills climb. In 2025 Alphabet cleared US $ 400bn in revenue, a milestone read partly as her costand-AI balancing act paying off.
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