Ali Ghodsi
$4.3B
Born
Dec 08, 1978
Age
47
Source of Wealth
Data analytics
Residence
San Francisco, California
Citizenship
Sweden
Marital Status
Married
Children
0
Education
Ph.D, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Master of Business Administration, Mid Sweden University; Master of Science in Engineering, Mid Sweden University
- Ali Ghodsi is cofounder and CEO of software startup Databricks, which private investors valued at $100 billion in September 2025.
- After a career in academia, Ghodsi cofounded Databricks with six UC Berkeley academics who built the popular analytics engine Apache Spark.
- Databricks is built on top of Spark and uses AI to power, in Ghodsi's words, a "data lakehouse" that helps companies store and utilize their data.
- Ghodsi was tapped to lead Databricks in 2016 amid company struggles to generate revenue; initially, he had joined in 2013 as a part-time engineer.
- The first-time CEO orchestrated a turnaround after revamping Databricks' leadership and product offerings.
- Ghodsi is a Swedish citizen, who arrived in the country as a child after his family was forced to flee Iran during the 1979 Revolution.
| Exchange | Ticker | Company Name | Number Of Shares | Share Price | Currency Code |
|---|