Good morning. Ruth Porat had her final earnings call as CFO of Alphabet and Google on Tuesday afternoon after almost 10 years. In mid-2023, Porat was promoted to president and chief investment officer at the tech giant and will be stepping into that role full-time. On the call, she shared some reflections on being CFO and also implied that she had no plans to become a finance chief ever again in the future.
“This is my 56th and last earnings call; 37 of them at Alphabet,” Porat said on the Q2 earnings call. Before joining Alphabet as CFO in 2015, she had a 27-year career at Morgan Stanley, where she was promoted to finance chief in 2010.
