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Anat Ashkenazi

  • Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Alphabet and Google, GOOGL since 2024-07src

Alphabet CFO since July 2024; Eli Lilly CFO 2021-2024

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Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design87relative tsr, time only · 81.06% for · 0.02% of net income
Skin in the game—no holding or price on file
Age
53src
In the role
2 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
—
Dodges / 100 answers
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Airtime on calls
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Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Watch 3

  • 2024 pay was $50.0m, mostly the one-time sign-on cash and make-whole equity for forfeited Lilly awards. 2025 pay was $31.3msrc
  • About two-thirds of her annual equity target is time-vested GSUs: $20m GSU against $10m PSU for 2026, plus a $6m transitional GSU. The PSUs pay only on TSR relative to the S&P 100src
  • Say-on-pay passed with 81.06% of votes cast for and against in June 2026, a count that includes the founders' 10-vote Class B sharessrc

In their favour 2

  • No open-market sales in the last 12 months. Vested Class C shares are held, with only tax withholding on vesting, and her direct Class C holding grew from 90,771 (2025-09-25) to 140,506 sharessrc
  • Met Alphabet's $7.5m SVP share-ownership requirement by 2025-12-31, per the proxy's statement that all NEOs complied. Hedging and pledging are prohibitedsrc

Career

  1. 2024 – now
    Alphabet Inc. and Google LLCsrc
    Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
    Announced 2024-06-05 and effective 2024-07-31. She succeeded Ruth Porat, who is now President & Chief Investment Officer
  2. 2021 – 2024
    Eli Lilly and Companysrc
    Chief Financial Officer (elected SVP & CFO 2021-02-09; EVP & CFO by 2023)
    Resigned effective July 2024 for a role outside the pharmaceutical industry (LLY-8K-2024)
  3. 2016 – 2021
    Eli Lilly and Companysrc
    Senior Vice President, Controller and CFO of Lilly Research Laboratories
    Oversaw the CFOs of the commercial businesses (BioMedicine, Diabetes, Oncology, International), R&D, manufacturing and quality, G&A, and accounting and financial reporting; also led corporate strategic planning and the business transformation office (LLY-8K-2021)
  4. 2001 – 2016
    Eli Lilly and Companysrc
    Finance, strategy and Six Sigma roles: CFO of Lilly Oncology; VP Finance and CFO of Lilly Diabetes and of Global Manufacturing & Quality
    Dates of the individual divisional CFO roles not stated

Undated in the sources

  • Ma'alot Standard & Poor's; Bank Hapoalim (Israel)src, Financial services

Not located: Dates of the pre-2016 Lilly divisional roles and of the pre-2001 Israeli roles are not stated in any source searched

Achievements

  • Spent 23 years at Eli Lilly (2001-2024), rising to EVP & CFO from February 2021 to July 2024src
  • As CFO of Lilly Research Laboratories (2016-2021) she oversaw the divisional CFOs and led corporate strategic planning and the business transformation officesrc
  • Hired from outside the tech industry as Alphabet's CFO, succeeding Ruth Porat in July 2024src
  • Alphabet GAAP net income rose from $100.1bn (FY2024) to $132.2bn (FY2025), her first full year as CFOsrc

Education

  • The Hebrew University, BA Economics and business administrationsrc
  • Tel Aviv University, MBAsrc

Background

  • Family The 2026 proxy states there are no family relationships among any directors or executive officerssrc
  • Other Lilly promoted her to CFO in February 2021 when her predecessor left after an investigation into inappropriate personal communications. Lilly said his conduct did not concern financial controls or statementssrc
  • Other Lilly's June 2024 notice said she resigned to pursue an opportunity outside the pharmaceutical industry and would serve at full capacity through July 2024src
  • Other Her Alphabet offer paid a one-time $9.9m cash sign-on bonus and a $13.1m sign-on GSU grant to replace Lilly pay she forfeited. It also set a $1.0m salary and a discretionary bonus of up to 200% of salary, which was later discontinuedsrc
  • Other Early career in Israeli financial services at Ma'alot Standard & Poor's and Bank Hapoalim before joining Lilly in 2001src

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

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  1. Filing Alphabet Inc. DEF 14A, 2026 annual meeting (accession 0001308179-26-000342) · 2026-04-24
  2. Filing Alphabet Inc. 8-K Items 5.02/5.07, 2026 annual meeting results (0001193125-26-267578) · 2026-06-11
  3. Filing Alphabet Inc. 8-K Item 5.02, 2026 executive officer equity awards (0001652044-26-000034) · 2026-04-10
  4. Filing Alphabet Inc. 8-K Item 5.02, appointment of Anat Ashkenazi as CFO (0001193125-24-154725) · 2024-06-05
  5. Filing Alphabet Inc. 8-K Item 5.02, CFO offer-letter terms (0001193125-24-157498) · 2024-06-07
  6. Filing SEC XBRL companyconcept us-gaap/NetIncomeLoss, CIK 1652044 (FY2025 10-K, 0001652044-26-000018) · 2026-02-05
  7. Filing Eli Lilly and Company 8-K Item 5.02, election of Anat Ashkenazi as SVP & CFO, event 2021-02-09 (0001193125-21-033302) · 2021-02-09
  8. Filing Eli Lilly and Company press release 2021-02-09, Exhibit 99.1 to the same 8-K (0001193125-21-033302) · 2021-02-09
  9. Filing Eli Lilly and Company 8-K Item 5.02, Ashkenazi resignation (0000059478-24-000146) · 2024-06-05
  10. Filing Eli Lilly and Company DEF 14A, 2024 annual meeting (0000059478-24-000099) · 2024-03-22
  11. Filing EDGAR submissions index for reporting owner Ashkenazi Anat (CIK 1761679): Forms 4, 2025-09 to 2026-09 · 2026-09-24
  12. Filing Form 4, Ashkenazi Anat, dividend-equivalent units of 2026-09-14 with holdings after (0001193125-26-393485) · 2026-09-16
  13. Web search result WebSearch: CFO.com, Alphabet names Ashkenazi as new CFO to replace Ruth Porat; awarded $9.9M signing bonus · 2026-09-24