Snowflake unveils $448 million pay plan for CEO tied to ambitious stock targets

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Reuters

Thu, July 16, 2026 astatine 6:51 AM CDT 1 min read

July 16 (Reuters) - Snowflake connected Thursday unveiled a compensation bundle worthy up to astir $448 cardinal for CEO ‌Sridhar Ramaswamy, hinging connected the cloud-based information analytics ‌platform's marketplace worth astir doubling to $184 cardinal successful 7 years.

Ramaswamy's award, ​totaling 1 cardinal shares, is structured into 5 tranches, each with escalating banal terms milestones, and is designed to clasp him arsenic CEO until September 15, 2030.

Snowflake has been benefiting ‌from clients shifting ⁠their workloads to its unreality level arsenic they put to make AI tools.

The company's banal ⁠price would request to ascent to $531 by July 15, 2033 from Wednesday's closing terms of $271.87 for the last tranche, ​adding up ​to $100 cardinal to its marketplace ​capitalization.

Snowflake offers a level ‌where clients store and integrate their information successful 1 spot to make concern insights, physique AI tools and lick operational problems.

Ramaswamy indispensable stay CEO done September 15, 2029 for the archetypal 2 tranches and September 15, 2030 for ‌the past 3 to conscionable ​the service-based requirement, the institution said.

The ​compensation bundle besides includes ​clawback clauses for misconduct oregon accounting restatements, ‌according to a regulatory filing.

Snowflake ​shares person risen ​about 24% this year.

In May, the institution raised its yearly merchandise gross forecast and announced a five-year ​deal worthy $6 cardinal ‌with Amazon Web Services to usage AWS's Graviton ​processors and AI infrastructure.

(Reporting by Jaspreet Singh successful ​Bengaluru; Editing by Sahal Muhammed)

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