Clark Murphy

Well, our guest today, who was too modest to have agreed with that last statement, I can tell you in advance. Our guest today is Ruth Barat, who's the President and Chief Investment Officer at Alphabet and Google.

Well, our guest today, who was too modest to have agreed with that last statement, I can tell you in advance. Our guest today is Ruth Barat, who's the President and Chief Investment Officer at Alphabet and Google.

Well, our guest today, who was too modest to have agreed with that last statement, I can tell you in advance. Our guest today is Ruth Barat, who's the President and Chief Investment Officer at Alphabet and Google.

She's responsible for Google's corporate investments and investment vehicles, including the capital arm of Google Ventures, CapG, and the other bets investment portfolio, which we'll come back to in a little bit.

She's responsible for Google's corporate investments and investment vehicles, including the capital arm of Google Ventures, CapG, and the other bets investment portfolio, which we'll come back to in a little bit.

She's responsible for Google's corporate investments and investment vehicles, including the capital arm of Google Ventures, CapG, and the other bets investment portfolio, which we'll come back to in a little bit.

She was previously CFO of Google, and prior to joining, she was CFO of Morgan Stanley and had a number of roles there, which included the co-head of tech banking, global head of the FIG group. She's also a member of the board of directors of Blackstone, Council on Foreign Relations, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the board of trustees of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

She was previously CFO of Google, and prior to joining, she was CFO of Morgan Stanley and had a number of roles there, which included the co-head of tech banking, global head of the FIG group. She's also a member of the board of directors of Blackstone, Council on Foreign Relations, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the board of trustees of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

She was previously CFO of Google, and prior to joining, she was CFO of Morgan Stanley and had a number of roles there, which included the co-head of tech banking, global head of the FIG group. She's also a member of the board of directors of Blackstone, Council on Foreign Relations, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the board of trustees of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Ruth, you've lived through change, transformation, and quite frankly, crises as well, both at Morgan Stanley and then at Google. What have you learned about dealing with and leading through change?

Ruth, you've lived through change, transformation, and quite frankly, crises as well, both at Morgan Stanley and then at Google. What have you learned about dealing with and leading through change?

Ruth, you've lived through change, transformation, and quite frankly, crises as well, both at Morgan Stanley and then at Google. What have you learned about dealing with and leading through change?

So just pulling on that thread a little bit. So technological change or executives adapting to different roles. As you think about the tech world where we've gone from digitization to machine learning to now cloud and AI, what skills do organizations look for when it comes to finding tech leaders?

So just pulling on that thread a little bit. So technological change or executives adapting to different roles. As you think about the tech world where we've gone from digitization to machine learning to now cloud and AI, what skills do organizations look for when it comes to finding tech leaders?

So just pulling on that thread a little bit. So technological change or executives adapting to different roles. As you think about the tech world where we've gone from digitization to machine learning to now cloud and AI, what skills do organizations look for when it comes to finding tech leaders?

And thinking about disruption, innovation, et cetera, do you look for different things or what are they from 28 years on Wall Street and what you looked for?

And thinking about disruption, innovation, et cetera, do you look for different things or what are they from 28 years on Wall Street and what you looked for?

And thinking about disruption, innovation, et cetera, do you look for different things or what are they from 28 years on Wall Street and what you looked for?

You know, I'll surprise some people here. Hopefully I'll get through this. So I've never told anybody I'm a two-time cancer survivor, the most recent this summer. And the one thing that I've seen my friends do since then is on social media, they ring the bell because I was so private.

You know, I'll surprise some people here. Hopefully I'll get through this. So I've never told anybody I'm a two-time cancer survivor, the most recent this summer. And the one thing that I've seen my friends do since then is on social media, they ring the bell because I was so private.